Coaching Skills Session 1
Coach Training
I. What is coaching?
When you hear the term "Coach" or "coaching," What do you think of? What do coaches do?
Coaching involves expanding people's capacity to take effective action.
Coaching is a collaborative relationship focused on enabling an individual to become his or her best self.
II. Distinctives of Coaching:
A. Coaching is all about facilitating an environment of self-discovery.
B. The primary skills of coaching are listening and asking questions.
D. Internal versus external coaching...
Training Transmission of skills by an expert to others. Focus is on content and presentation.
Facilitating Coming alongside an individual or group to assist the outcome.
Managing Work focused with stated goals and performance evaluation. Involves coordinating, delegating, implementing, supervising, and measuring outcomes.
Consulting Advice giving, content expertise, problem solving.
Mentoring Relationship-based knowledge and life transfer. Focus is on life-on-life modeling.
Discipling Passing on scriptural truth to effect transformational, seminal life changes.
Counseling Helping people work through personal, emotional issues, often with a backward look to bring understanding.
III. The Coaching Conversation:
A. "Coaching through the Gap"
In practice, coaching is a series of conversation between coach and client moving along a predictable process through identifiable steps. These steps are:
IV. Summary/Wrap Up:
A. Questions
I. What is coaching?
When you hear the term "Coach" or "coaching," What do you think of? What do coaches do?
Coaching involves expanding people's capacity to take effective action.
Coaching is a collaborative relationship focused on enabling an individual to become his or her best self.
II. Distinctives of Coaching:
A. Coaching is all about facilitating an environment of self-discovery.
B. The primary skills of coaching are listening and asking questions.
- Exercise: Pair up. Have one person answer this question: "If time, money, opportunity were not limiting, what's one thing you'd like to do?" Have the other person, listen, ask questions and reflect a statement. Then switch
D. Internal versus external coaching...
- Distinctions among methods of influence
Training Transmission of skills by an expert to others. Focus is on content and presentation.
Facilitating Coming alongside an individual or group to assist the outcome.
Managing Work focused with stated goals and performance evaluation. Involves coordinating, delegating, implementing, supervising, and measuring outcomes.
Consulting Advice giving, content expertise, problem solving.
Mentoring Relationship-based knowledge and life transfer. Focus is on life-on-life modeling.
Discipling Passing on scriptural truth to effect transformational, seminal life changes.
Counseling Helping people work through personal, emotional issues, often with a backward look to bring understanding.
- The influence spectrum
III. The Coaching Conversation:
A. "Coaching through the Gap"
- The goal of coaching is to help people move from where they are to where they want to be - thus "bridging the gap."
- This taps in to their internal motivation and gets them their best effort.
In practice, coaching is a series of conversation between coach and client moving along a predictable process through identifiable steps. These steps are:
- 1. Establish Focus; we do that by asking questions like those on your sheet. (Read questions.)
- 2. Promote Discovery; again, we do that by asking questions. (Read questions.) We can also paraphrase to confirm understanding.
- 3. Determine Action Plans; our goal is to help them develop an action plan that focuses on the desired outcome rather than the problem. (Read questions.)
- 4. Remove Barriers and Empower; ask questions to explore resources and uncover possible barriers. Empower them to take action. (Read the questions.)
- 5. Recap and Next Steps; ask the person to review what has been learned and clarify their commitment to action. Establish a time for the next meeting/call.
IV. Summary/Wrap Up:
A. Questions
- 1. What is coaching?
- 2. What are the primary skills of coaching?
- 3. What is the goal of coaching?
