Coaching Tips

My friends at NGO training organsiation IMA have prodiced this list of coaching tips:

Coching excellence is not an accident!

What do all the top sports people in the world have in common? Apart from being very successful, they each have a coach. Why?

The coach is there to help them:

Build on their successes
Work on the details that will sharpen their skills, and improve their techniques
Plan tactics ahead of important events
Stay at the top in a very competitive world

In an organisation, coaching means:
"Improving performance at work, by turning things people do into learning situations, in a planned way, under guidance." Fleming & Taylor 2003

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10 Essential Coaching Skills (Tips in full article)
Use the tips below to build your coaching skills and bring out the best in your staff:

Building rapport
Observation
Listening Skills
Matching People’s Worlds
Listening actively
Helping people change
Helping people learn
Planning learning
Developing Trust
Giving Feedback

The GROW Modal for Performance Coaching

IMA uses the GROW model as a framework for Performance Coaching
The aim of this model is to raise the performer's Awareness and Responsibility through the coach’s effective questioning techniques, listening and observing.
AWARENESS - self directed focus to gather appropriate information to a high quality;
RESPONSIBILITY - the performer’s choice to "own" a task and to see it through to completion.

The GROW Coaching Model:

G Goals - what do you want? R Reality - What is happening now? O Options - What could you do?W Will - What will you do?

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Information on Integration Training's own "embodied" approach to coaching is here.