Following through on your coaching session
Featured in the Proactive Interviewee Skills training manual
By Beverley Williams
Category: Recruitment, Selection and Induction
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
Coaching sessions focus on improving performance in a specific area. As many of the coachee’s performance-improving actions will take place outside the actual coaching session, the follow-up work resulting from the session is absolutely crucial. It will flow naturally into the preparation sessions for the next coaching interview, resulting in a continuous loop. Careful planning and implementation of the action points usually needs to take place as soon as possible following the coaching session. This allows the coachee to take action while everything is still fresh in their mind and to make effective use of the enthusiasm generated by the coaching session. This training activity gives participants the opportunity to work on practical exercises to determine what needs to be done and to decide appropriate timescales.
You open the training activity by explaining that the participants should be actively working to improve their performance and to follow through on what was agreed at their coaching session. You introduce the basic plan – carry out – review technique as a structure for their follow-through work, eliciting ideas on the surrounding issues from the participants. The participants then work with partially completed coaching progress reports and coaching session notes (all supplied) to action-plan the next steps in this case; they also complete the next section of the coaching progress report. They address one of the action points during a practical session, and use the results to complete the final section of the coaching progress report. You lead a plenary discussion where participants review what they have done during the training activity and discuss the benefits of formal follow-through work from the point of view of the coachee and the coach. You take one or two key learning points from each person before distributing and commenting on a key learning points handout where appropriate.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to help coachees develop plans to take responsibility for following through on the issues discussed and agreed during their coaching session, putting the energy and enthusiasm generated by their coaching sessions to work.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 10 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:35:00 |
| No of Pages: | 16 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers with participants who are, or will be, coached formally on their performance. Ideally, this training activity would take place within a few days of an early coaching session, allowing discussion of personal experiences to be brought in where appropriate. In practice, however, this can be difficult to put into place and the training activity can usefully be run at any stage of the coaching process. Another very effective application is to deliver this training activity on a 1:1 basis shortly after the coaching session, using live material. It is also an excellent idea to run your coaches through this training activity to keep them fully up to date with the messages the coaches will be receiving. Participants will ideally have covered the training activities, ‘Coachee preparation’ and ‘Making the most of your coaching session’, before working on this training activity.
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