183: The power of honest feedback with Coach Steve Pfrenzinger

How important is honest feedback is in your life and development. 'What don't you know about you? Have you ever wondered if you had special skills or talents that you simply don’t know about? Some amazing ability that would change everything? That is what self-awareness helps you discover via the often-feared, honest feedback.' Imagine taking these insights into your school, what a gift for all children! Also in this conversation we explore the importance of the "Speed to AHA'. To get engagement with an audience or classroom you need to make sure the person listening gets the 'Aha' quickly. Once they understand what they are about to learn you can fill in the details with your own style. Without that people can switch off. This is the podcast if you want to know how this can help you, and your pupils. Coach Steve uses his extensive experience in business, coaching and family to explain this transformational knowledge in life affirming examples.

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Do you feel the education system is sucking the life out of you and the pupils you serve? I think many of us wish we could click our fingers and make it fit for purpose. A place of growth with shared learning that empowers pupils to be their best selves, so they can create a world they want to inhabit now and in the future. While a magic wand or a visionary politician might sound like the answer I believe change is already happening. Educators are changing futures one conversation at a time. New technology and the environments where we learn are beginning to look different both in and out of the classroom. I hope you are seeing this first hand and are excited about what you can share with your pupils. We are having conversations, sharing organisations and communities that are supporting education in a way that you may have not experienced. Educational change will come from us all working in way that supports the best interests of each of our pupils, personalised learning. Governments and policy makers will follow when they see fully how it can be different. So let us teach, coach, mentor and create an environment that fuels every child with feedback, inspiration, resilience and empowerment. The Education on Fire community is shining the torch, so no matter where you are in the world or how you are supporting children this podcast is here for you. ‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’