Leadership Teams & Lead Coaches
It takes a team to make data-informed decisions!
On this page you can learn more about:
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- Considerations for establishing a Leadership Team
- Considerations for identifying a Lead Coach
- How Leadership Teams and Lead Coaches work together
What are PBC-DIDM Leadership Teams and Lead Coaches?
Leadership Team
A leadership team is a group of people with varied knowledge and experiences related to PBC, professional learning, and data-informed decision making that come together to decide how to support coaches, practitioners, children, and their families. The leadership team often includes a program leader who can make decisions about the coaching initiative (e.g., fiscal and time allocations), coaches, practitioners, and other key stakeholders (e.g., families, behavior specialists, data managers). The PBC-DIDM leadership team might be an existing program team installing and leading the PBC-DIDM initiative or a new group of individuals developing a team focused on implementing PBC-DIDM.
Lead Coach
A lead coach is someone within the program with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to support other coaches in implementing PBC, effective practices that are the focus of PBC, and PBC-DIDM. A lead coach is the primary liaison between the leadership team and the coach community. A program might have one or more lead coaches, depending on the size of the program.
Why are Leadership Teams important for PBC-DIDM?
Making data-informed decisions takes a team! It also takes a knowledgeable and skilled lead coach with strong organizational and communication skills who can facilitate the leadership team and coach community experiences.
Leadership teams are structured to encourage members with diverse roles and perspectives to:
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- identify their program strengths, needs, and priorities,
- set goals for PBC-DIDM implementation, and
- measure progress toward those goals using the PBC-DIDM Implementation Profile.
In addition to setting goals, the leadership team regularly engages in the Prepare-Look-Think-Act (PLTA) Process and shares their perspectives about effort and effect data to inform actions or next steps.
Why are Lead Coaches important for PBC-DIDM?
The leadership team often identifies goals and action steps related to Coach Community support. The lead coach prepares for and facilitates regular coach community meetings and PBC-DIDM coach learning experiences to enhance the coaches’ knowledge, skills, and dispositions related to PBC, the effective practices that are the focus of PBC, and PBC-DIDM.
Establishing a leadership team and identifying a lead coach to act as the liaison for the coach community helps ensure that PBC-DIDM is a program-wide initiative that promotes transparency, collaboration, support, data-informed growth, and continuous opportunities to celebrate progress.
How can we use this information in our program?
When implementing PBC-DIDM, one of the first steps is to identify who will serve on the PBC-DIDM leadership team and who will serve as the lead coach.
Use these modules to learn more about considerations for identifying leadership team members and lead coaches.
What Leadership Team and Lead Coach resources are available?
Download the PBC-DIDM Guides on establishing a leadership team and facilitating leadership team meetings via the links below.
Download the implementation checklists, designed to guide lead coaches and teams through planning, facilitating, and documenting initial and ongoing leadership team meetings, using the links below.
To learn more about preparing for and facilitating Leadership Team meetings, check out the “Seven Tips” video or visit the Resources Library, where you can filter by role to view all the “Leadership Team” or “Lead Coach” tools and resources.
See seven tips for facilitating Leadership Team Meetings in action in this 4-minute video!
What other resources are available?
Visit the PBC-DIDM Model page on this website to learn more about the model’s parts and the content focus of leadership team meetings.
The PBC-DIDM Implementation Profile is also a great place to start when the leadership team begins implementing PBC-DIDM.