Bruce Miles and Big River Group put on a professional learning event, entitled “The Art of Coaching and Leadership”, exclusively for St. Croix River Education District (SCRED) employees who function in leadership, consultative and/or coaching roles, which encompassed the vast majority of our staff. It was an amazing day of learning! We recognized that without strong skills in these areas, we are unable to effectively serve and support our member districts. Even though the specific roles of the participants varied, this topic helped connect us all and the work we do toward our mission. We spent time learning about our own individual strengths, leadership styles and conflict resolution modes using short assessment tools, shared these with our internal teammates to improve team functioning, and learned coaching and leadership strategies to apply in our work. It was great to bring Bruce in to work with us as it is directly related to carrying out our strategic action plan he assisted us in developing prior to this workshop.

– Jamie Nord, Executive Director, St. Croix River Education District