Coaching for success
Featured in the Motivation in Practice training manual
By Eddie Davies
Category: People Management and Motivation
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Personal growth is a key feature of both Abraham Maslow’s and Frederick Herzberg’s motivational theories. Learning and development are essential to personal growth, and coaching at work can be used to assist this development. The seven-step coaching process is a model on which coaching at work is often based.
You begin this training activity by leading a discussion on some of the essential ingredients for motivating people at work. During this discussion, the essential role of learning and development as aids to personal growth is identified, and the part that coaching at work can play in assisting effective development is established. Next, you will lead a discussion to establish a definition of coaching. Having agreed a definition and identified the key aspects, you ask participants to work in syndicate groups to identify what process was used when they gave or received coaching they rated as very effective. The results of the syndicate work are compared with a seven-step model: the coaching process. After this, you expand on what is needed in each step before giving the participants an opportunity to rate their current level of mastery. They then work in syndicate groups, where they are given an opportunity to coach another member of their group in order to develop their coaching skills. The person doing the coaching in this encounter also receives feedback on how well they used the coaching process model. Finally, you conclude the session by leading a plenary review of the main learning points arising from the practical exercise. At the end of this review, participants draw up an action plan for transferring their key learning back to the workplace.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to enable participants to identify the essential role of learning and development as an aid to personal growth, and ways in which coaching at work can assist effective development are established.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 12 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:55:00 |
| No of Pages: | 26 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers and can be used as a stand-alone training activity to introduce participants to the skills and strategies involved in coaching or as an integral part of training events designed to increase awareness and application of a variety of management and motivation skills. It has been used successfully as part of training programmes in an introduction to effective management, coaching, counselling skills at work, improving staff performance, leadership skills, performance appraisal, supervisory development, team working skills, and trainer development.
Download the training activity, Coaching for success as featured in the Fenman training manual; Motivation in Practice