Sacramento County Coaching, Training, and Organizational Development Services

Butler’s coaching, training and development services are designed to meet the workforce’s diverse and evolving needs. Butler is a national leader in effective workforce and leadership development and is dedicated to partnering with public agencies to identify and address their unique coaching and training needs. Our trainings focus on the whole person and use a variety of delivery methods including a blend of synchronous and asynchronous options. 

Training and Organizational Development Services

Our experienced trainers are skilled in many modalities, such as online learning, virtual training delivery, in-person training and hybrid approaches that maximize participants’ learning. Butler has deep expertise in these approaches and several trainers on the team.  

When we provide live virtual training, we use video platforms such as Zoom, and one or more trainers facilitate, which allows all learners to participate at the same time. Virtual live trainings utilize various engagement tools such as live polling, breakout group discussions, and virtual chalkboards so facilitators and participants can share information about training concepts and lessons. 

To discuss any of the options below in more detail or to simply learn more, please email us at butlercoaching@du.edu!

• Leadership Academy

  Adapted from the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute’s Leadership Academy for Child Welfare Leaders (Academy), Butler is excited to offer the Leadership Academy to Sacramento County agencies. The Leadership Academy is geared toward leaders across different sectors, including early childhood, education, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, behavioral health, and more. It builds essential skills for managing change, leading people, leading for results, building strong collaboratives by leading in context, and developing organizational cultures of racial equity, safety, and learning. Butler certified coaches provide individualized and peer-group coaching for leaders in the program, and evaluation support is included to ensure competency gains and transfer of learning. 

  The Leadership Academy is typically offered over nine to 12 months and consists of five learning modules that include:  

  1. Fundamentals of Leadership 
  2. Leading Change 
  3. Leading in Context  
  4. Leading for Results  
  5. Leading People 

  Each module includes: 

  1. An asynchronous online learning component 
  2. A synchronous experiential learning session that Butler coaches can deliver in-person or virtually  

  Participants engage in online pre-learning instruction, optional assessments, and individual one-on-one leadership coaching from certified Butler coaches.  

  The Academy also includes 360° feedback assessments aligned with the Leadership Competency Framework. This framework is informed by best-practice leadership literature across public and private sectors.  

  The Leadership Academy can be customized to meet your agency’s needs and interests regarding format, duration, content and more. Data indicates the Academy successfully advances participants’ leadership competencies by increasing their knowledge, skills and abilities. 

• Trauma-Informed Leadership

  Organizational leaders are increasingly recognizing the importance of trauma-informed leadership. Effective leaders must be able to create organizational cultures and climates that prevent and address organizational trauma and secondary traumatic stress (STS).  

  Organizational trauma can occur when distressing or disturbing events happen within a workplace or when there are other conditions that cause employees to feel: 

  • A lack of trust in their leaders or colleagues 
  • Physically or emotionally unsafe 
  • Insecure in their jobs 

  STS can happen when individuals are exposed to the traumatic experiences of other people, usually their clients’, and develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. STS is a major contributor to turnover in the helping professions, and turnover contributes to workforce shortages, which affects the ability of systems to respond to the service population’s needs. 

  Organizational leaders must be equipped to address their organization’s and workforce’s needs and to stay attuned to stress and trauma that can impact their workforce. 

  Butler offers a variety of trainings on trauma-informed leadership including Reflective & Trauma-Informed Supervision and Transformational Leadership.  

• Foundations of Youth Engagement for Leaders

  Engaging youth leadership in a meaningful way requires organizations to create environments that are supportive of youth and build the capacity of adults to partner with youth, while also equipping youth with the knowledge and resources they need to fully participate. Building on the concepts of positive youth development, Butler offers training to develop the capacity of adults working alongside and supporting young people, including: 

  • The core elements and principles of engaging youth in leadership opportunities 
  • Supporting developmental opportunities for young people 
  • Reciprocal benefits for organizations and the potential for partners and communities to have more meaningful impact by engaging youth voice  

• Foundations of Community Partnership for Leaders

  Equitable, inclusive and sustained impact requires organizations to engage in community involvement and ownership, which they can achieve through authentic partnership with the communities they aim to serve, especially the most historically marginalized or oppressed communities. Butler’s training focuses on the importance of community partnership and the role agency leaders have in creating an organizational environment that values and supports authentic partnership principles. These principles include: 

  • Identifying the reasons for and type of engagement for meaningful partnership 
  • Building trust and accountability with the identified community 
  • Becoming aware of the community’s social context, including historical oppression, and addressing power differentials 
  • Using equitable approaches to information gathering, co-creation and decision-making 
  • Establishing pathways for sustained partnership and reciprocity 

• Coaching Skill Development

  Coaching is an essential skill for leaders to support staff and organizational change. Organizations that incorporate coaching skills into their management culture show increased organizational commitment, job competency and belonging and an improved learning environment (Park et al., 2021). Coaching also increases people’s self-efficacy, hope, optimism, well-being, self-regulation and endurance (Theeboom, 2016; Burt, 2017; Novitasari, 2021).

  Butler offers a variety of trainings that help leaders integrate coaching skills and approaches into their roles (all trainings adhere to the International Coaching Federation competencies):

   

  • Fundamentals of Coaching – A 2-day virtual experience covering the basics of coaching. The in-person training is followed by three months of virtual learning circles to support transfer of learning. Learning circles foster peer/colleague-to-peer/colleague learning to spark and develop innovation, reinforce critical thinking and improve practice.
  • Foundations of Coaching – A 12-week virtual learning experience with prework, live learning sessions, try-it exercises and practice groups to introduce foundational coaching skills and explore ways to incorporate them into participants’ leadership style and work context.
  • Academy of Professional Coaching – A 7-day, 3-module deep dive into developmental coaching and how to utilize coaching skills in your leadership practice, accredited through the International Coaching Federation. In Butler’s developmental coaching model, the coach assists the client in developing skills while deepening their thinking and understanding about who they are as an individual in the context of their skill development. The Academy of Professional Coaching builds knowledge and skills acquisition at every step of the coaching process.