Module: 4.7.3 Coaching with Head and Heart
This module introduces participants to a coaching process that includes an awareness to social-emotional learning and character of adults. Designed for those in leadership and/or supervisory positions, participants will practice skills needed in coaching to support an environment for adult staff to learn and grow.
In this training participants will:
- Understand a coaching process that supports individuals to make more conscious decisions, build off their strengths and internal resources and take new action.
- Strengthen listening and inquiry skills needed for effective coaching.
- Practice providing and receiving peer coaching support on real-time issues.
Content Overview:
When to Coach
Participants will identify what coaching is and is not, as well as for what situations coaching is needed versus other types of support.
The Coaching Model: An Equity Lens
Participants will be in introduced to a coaching model that gives attention to equity, including what mindset, skills and process a coach needs to support individuals in taking new action.
Foundational Coaching Skills: Listening
Participants will learn and practice a foundational skill needed in coaching: listening.
Foundational Coaching Skills: Inquiry
Participants will learn about and identify effective questions that help move a person forward.
The Coaching Process
Participants will understand four stages in the coaching process.
Determine a Coaching Topic
Participants will learn and reflect on questions that can help one identify a coaching topic.
Peer Coaching Sessions
Participants will practice the coaching mindset, skills and process in triads. Participants will also receive coaching on a real-time issue or dilemma.
Training Length: 3 hours