The Key to a Coach Approach for Teachers, Trainers & Educational Management
We all have goals we want to reach, challenges we’re striving to overcome and times when we feel stuck. Partnering with a coach can change your life, setting you on a path to greater personal and professional fulfilment.
ICF defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential.
The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership.
Coaching is a collaborative and creative partnership process. It supports the client to build a bridge and close the gap between where they are and where they ideally want to be.
It is a process where you discover ideas and options you might not have thought of on your own. Moreover, the process challenges you to go further than where you would normally stop and it keeps you on track, accountable and focused on achieving your outcomes.
The coaching process uses a variety of different skills and competencies, and those skills and competencies can be used in a variety of different contexts.
Coaching can be used in business contexts with managers, executives, and entrepreneurs. It can be used with individuals, groups, and teams. The process of coaching is polycontextual, including health and wellness, career development and transition, life/work balance, and obviously in education as well.
As teachers, when you learn the process of coaching, you have a highly valuable set of tools, techniques and competencies to use both inside and outside the classroom, with your learners, with your colleagues, with your head of department, with parents and carers, with your family and friends, and most importantly with and for yourself.
You can find out more about our flagship course Core Coaching Skills for Teachers, Trainers & Educators here.
