becoming a great coach - educatored · 2018-03-13 · find “attributes of a great coach”...

©2006 The Change Place

POWERful Coaching for Powerful Results

Becoming a Great Coach

Karla Reiss, The Change Place Education Consultant

Certified Empowerment Coach

This session includes:

• Coaching Basics Coaching Mindsets Attributes of a Great Coach

• Self-assessment Attributes of a Great Coachee

• Many reasons to coach • Coaching the Whole Person • Coaching = Change!


As I wander confidently towards the realization of my dreams, I am wondering who will be by me side...

~ unknown

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

~ Josh Liebman, Rabbi


Thinking Like a Coach

• Adopting a Coaching Mindset We’re all a work in progress. Each person has their own story. Each person is either on a journey from here

to there…or stuck where they are.


Thinking Like a Coach

• Adopting a Coaching Mindset Each person has experiences that help or

hinder their growth. Each person sees from their own experience. No one is broken nor needs fixing. Seeing people as whole and capable

of anything will spur their growth.


Attributes of a Great Coach

Active Listener Non-judgmental Possibility Thinker Compassionate



Inspirational Personable Intuitive Sincere



Trustworthy Risk-taker Action-oriented Focused on Results Knows Coaching

Competencies (see Session 3)


How Do You Fare?

Find “Attributes of a Great Coach” handout This is a self-assessment. Make a copy first. Now, complete one as a baseline. Circle the number that represents how you

see yourself, today. Repeat every few months. If you’re brave, share the result with

a colleague!


Ok, you’re a great coach. You have all the skills and techniques you need to help others make deep and lasting change. What attributes do you think a coachee needs to be successful in making changes?

• Take 5 minutes to reflect. Discuss with colleagues or jot down your

thoughts in your journal.

Discussion


Attributes of a Great Coachee

Not everyone is a candidate for successful coaching.

A great coachee is: Open to personal and professional growth Seeks to learn more Willing to make changes Able to see a better future Willing to think outside the box


Attributes of a Great Coachee

A great coachee is: Enthused to work with a coach Open to new ideas Willing to collaborate Has a positive attitude Is motivated to make a difference Is open to receiving feedback


Different Reasons to Coach Coaching for skills teaching skills learn about data become a better speaker

Coaching for performance better time management improve results improved team building enjoy your job

No matter the reason, a great coach can coach anyone!


Different Reasons to Coach Coaching for development become a better leader prepare for the next level job prevent derailment

Coaching for the organization achieve extraordinary goals boost organizational strength retention of key employees


Different Reasons to Coach

Life Coaching Leadership Coaching Cognitive Coaching Peer Coaching Blended Coaching Most coaching becomes personal coaching

by about the 3rd session.


Think of a recent school-related situation that you could have been benefited from coaching.

Take 5 minutes to reflect. Discuss with a small group or jot down

your thoughts in your journal.

Discussion


Coaching the Whole Person

• A holistic approach. • Aligns the coachee’s values & beliefs

with goals & actions. • Often blocks to change are inner issues. • A great coach is OK with going deeper. • When trust is present, coachee will open

up about other parts of their life.


Coaching = Change!

• Coach when change is wanted by an individual, school or district.

• Who wants the change? – the coachee? – the organization?

• Coaches support people & organizations THROUGH change.


Coaching = Change!

• Change requires new ways of thinking, seeing and believing what is possible.

• People can choose new thoughts and ways of seeing and believing.

• Coaches help people choose new thoughts, ways of seeing and believing.


Stages of Change

Coaches need awareness of the journey through change.

1. The Comfort Zone 2. The Discomfort Zone 3. The Anything Is Possible Zone


The Comfort Zone

• You know what that is! • Familiar • Predictable • Same actions = same results • Feels good

This is where people often retreat

to when change causes stress.


The Discomfort Zone • Feels bad • Stress • People feel anxious • Unsure what to do • Unsure what will happen • Sense of loss pervades • Is a sign of growth! Without discomfort, there is no growth.


The Anything’s Possible Zone

• People are energized • Possibilities are endless. • Goals are surpassed. • There’s excitement in the air. • People wonder what’s next!

Lasting change happens here!


List the changes that have been started and did not succeed in your school or district.

What are some possible reasons the change did not succeed?

Take 5 minutes to reflect. Discuss with your small group or jot down

your thoughts in your journal.

Discussion


8 Keys to Successful Change

1) Passionate commitment tied to meaningful purpose and core values.

2) A clear action plan. 3) Courage to confront obstacles. 4) A team of support.


8 Keys to Successful Change

5) Readiness to brave the change path. 6) Alignment between one’s future vision,

personal and professional mission and actions to achieve them.

7) Awareness and acceptance that people you are coaching will progress at their pace.

8) A coach to support the change!


Summary

For successful coaching & change: • Adopt a coaching mindset. • Acquire the Attributes of a Great Coach • Persistence through the Discomfort Zone

leads to lasting change. • Be aware of the 8 Keys to Successful

Change.


"Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling."

~Vincent Van Gogh

"Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

~George Bernard Shaw


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