Coaching & Facilitation

Everyone benefits from a supportive coach. Someone who has traveled the road you are on that can help guide the way. Someone who knows where all the big rocks and boulders are and how to traverse them. Someone who knows where the bottlenecks and crevasses are and how to navigate them.

We are prepared to meet you where you are when you need support. If you need a "light-touch" thought partner to consult a couple hours a week, we can support you. If you have a team of improvement advisors that are grappling with big tensions, we can facilitate generative conversations to work through those problems of practice. If you are an expert among your peers, we can observe your facilitation and coaching and debrief to provide support. We believe in mentoring leaders and coaches using supportive, adaptable methods. These methods then serve as a model for building the leaders’ capacity to support team members in improvement work.

Many of Shift's capacity development programs include some level of team coaching.  For example, Shift offers coaching support as a component of our online course Improvement Methods for Equity (IM4E), including hands-on practice with improvement methods. 

Some additional examples of Shift’s work with Coaching & Facilitation include:

• Project ECHO: Shift provided improvement coaching to respond to the COVID pandemic in nursing homes in partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  
  
• Network for College Success: Shift facilitated a design process and provided coaching to the Freshman Success team at NCS to more deeply apply continuous improvement approaches for equity in the context of their Freshman Success Framework.
  
  
• Thompson Policy Institute: Shift provides thought partnership and coaching to support the team from Chapman University with program design for CalEpic, a collaborative focused on improving the quality of teacher preparation and building the capacity of California’s diverse, well-prepared, and thriving educators to support equity, inclusivity, and the whole child.
  
  

Shift welcomes the opportunity to learn and adapt to the needs of your organization. Our team is happy to work with you to determine a scope of work, timeline, and budget that fits your needs.