The power of coaching. Leading on Effective Behaviour Management Objectives 1.To understand what coaching is and isn’t 2.To understand how coaching can

The power of coaching

Leading on Effective Behaviour Management

Objectives

1. To understand what coaching is and isn’t

2. To understand how coaching can be used as a powerful leadership tool

3. To understand how coaching can be used with colleagues and with students

4. To have practiced using the GROW model of coaching

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Where did the idea of coaching come from?

Coaching has origins in sports psychology.

“ The opponent within one’s own head is more formidable than the one on the other side of the net”

Tim Gallwey – The Inner game of Tennis


Some Principles of Coaching

• People should be empowered to come up with their own solutions

• People have greater commitment to something they have shaped themselves

• People need both support and challenge

• Coaching fits well with a shared leadership approach


How do you eat an elephant?


Definition of Insanity


“Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.”

Coaching definition 1

“Coaching is the art of facilitating the performance, learning and development of another.”

Myles Downey

Effective Coaching



“A relationship and process by which a coach facilitates the success of others through a belief in that person’s/team’s ability to find their own solutions and to enhance performance. Coaching seeks to maintain a positive, strength-focused state of mind.”

Thomas and Smith 2004



“Unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their performance. It is about helping them learn rather than teaching them.”

John Whitmore 1992



“Inherent in coaching is the intrinsic belief that the answers lie within each and every one of us and that everyone has the potential to be brilliant.”

Suggett (2008)


Activity 1

• Do you see in these statements anything that may be different from what may go on in schools in general?

• What are some of the key principles of coaching that are apparent from the statements?


Summarising Coaching?

Coaching is a process of helping another individual realize their inner potential, delivering fulfillment to both the individual and the related organization.

•Motivation •Excellence•Achievement•Intrinsic learning•Intense satisfaction


Coaching is NOT…

• Leading

• Managing

• Instructing

• Giving advice

• Offering opinions


A Coach Does Not Need…

• To be the expert

• To know the “right” answer

• To be in control

• To “fix” it

• To heal it or make it better


The Key Elements of Coaching

• Non directive

• Non judgemental

• Person centred


Coaching vs Mentoring

MENTORING is one person advising and informing another person about what they know.

COACHING is one person working with another to enable this person to arrive at the solutions that come from within themselves and that suit them.


The support spectrum


The 3 BIG Coaching Skills

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1. Listening 2. Questioning3. Reviewing

Additional Coaching Skills

• Developing trust

• Fairness

• Encouragement

• Building rapport

• Giving and receiving feedback


Listening – Some dangers

• Hear only what we want to hear• Fail to put ourselves in other

peoples’ shoes• Think we know what other people

are talking about• Listen to the words but miss the

‘music’ (ie: emotions)• ‘Already heard’ – Made up our

minds


Listening - Aims

1. Talk less and listen more

2. Be comfortable with silence (thinking time)

3. Let go of your solution (inner voice)

4. Maintain full attention and show interest (listen to words, pick up emotions)

5. Reflect back what you think is being said (testing understanding and summarising)

6. Be aware of what isn’t being said

7. Listen with the curiosity of a fascinated stranger


Chinese Symbol for ‘listening’

This is the Chinese character which means

LISTEN

The section on the left denotes the ear

There are four sections on the right:

the top one says you

beneath that comes the eyes

next is undivided attention

at the bottom is heart


Activity 2

Poor listening


Activity 3

Great listening


Questioning

Use:

• What

• When

• Where

• Who

• How


Don’t use:

• Why

The GROW Model


Goal

Reality

Options

Will do

Activity 4. Teachers TV – Primary NQT


Activity 5. Triads


Plenary

What action will you now take to use the skills of coaching both in your own school and in the CC project?


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The power of coaching. Leading on Effective Behaviour Management Objectives 1.To understand what coaching is and isn’t 2.To understand how coaching can