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Is Coaching the New Guidance?

Is Coaching the New Guidance?. Markham May CEGS Visiting Associate. Is Coaching the New Guidance?. Careers guidance can be viewed as having three key elements: Supporting informed choices about both work and learning Helping individuals manage transitions more effectively

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Is Coaching the New Guidance?

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  1. Is Coaching the New Guidance? Markham May CEGS Visiting Associate

  2. Is Coaching the New Guidance? Careers guidance can be viewed as having three key elements: • Supporting informed choices about both work and learning • Helping individuals manage transitions more effectively • Helping people to manage their career management skills to manage their own decisions and transitions throughout their working lives

  3. Is Coaching the New Guidance? i.e. to develop resilience in the face of constant change. Steve Higginbotham & Deirdre Hughes 2006 The Future of Professional Career guidance: Where Next? CeGS Occasional Paper. Derby

  4. What is coaching? A process in which a manager, or an internal or external specialist coach, through direct discussion and guided activity, helps a learner to learn to solve a problem, or to do a task, better than would otherwise have been the case Adapted from: David Megginson & Tom Boydell 1979 A manager’s guide to coaching. BACIE, London.

  5. Is Coaching the New Guidance? In Guidance, what is the task?

  6. And what's a coaching culture? A coaching culture is one where coaching is the predominant style of managing and working together, and where commitment to grow the organisation is embedded in a parallel commitment to grow the people in the organisation. David Clutterbuck & David Megginson 2005 Making Coaching Work: Creating a coaching culture. CIPD, London.

  7. Definition of Peer Coaching “Peer coaching is a process through which two or more professional colleagues work together to reflect upon current practices; expand, refine and build new skills; share ideas; conduct action research; teach one another and problem-solve….” Robbins (1995)

  8. The GROW Model • Agree topic for discussion • Agree specific objective of session • Set long-term aim if appropriate • Commit to action • Identify possible obstacles • Make steps specific and define timing • Agree support Goal Will Reality Options • Invite self-assessment • Offer specific examples of feedback • Avoid or check assumptions • Discard irrelevant history • Cover the full range of options • Invite suggestions from the coachee • Offer suggestions carefully • Ensure choices are made

  9. Is Coaching the New Guidance? Do we use the Grow Model in our work as Guidance specialists?

  10. Helping someone to solve their own problems Pull (non-directive) Listening to understand Reflecting Paraphrasing Summarising Asking questions that raise awareness Making suggestions Giving feedback Offering guidance Giving advice Instructing Telling Solving someone’s problems for them Push (directive)

  11. Is Coaching the New Guidance? Where does guidance fit on this continuum?

  12. WHAT IT ISN'T Telling/instructing/ teaching Non-directive counselling Psychological game playing Imposing an external agenda Line managing/assessing or being a tutor WHAT IT IS Accessing what the client already knows helping the client to overcome limiting assumptions Empowering the client Developing transferable skills Dialogue Finding client's agenda What coaching is and what it isn't

  13. Motivational Interviewing “Motivational Interviewing is a directive, client-centred counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence” Rollnick and Miller (1995)

  14. Motivational Interviewing Motivational Interviewing is a way of doing things rather than a set of skills • The change must be client generated • Focused and goal directed • No coercion, persuasion or external threats • No advice giving or systematic approach to resolving problems

  15. Motivational InterviewingThe Stages (Wheel) of Change Pre-contemplation Active change Relapse Contemplation Maintenance Decision

  16. Motivational InterviewingAmbivalence Ambivalence is the co-existence of two opposite emotions toward the same object Result Conflict between two courses of action

  17. Is Coaching the New Guidance? Is Guidance about creating or solving ambivalence?

  18. Boyatzis Model of Intentional Change My ideal self – who do I want to be? My real self – Who am I? Practising the new behaviours, building new neural pathways Developing trusting relationships that support, help and encourage each step in the process My strengths – where my ideal self and my real self overlap Experimenting with new behaviours, thoughts and feelings My gaps – where my ideal and real self differ My learning agenda – building on strengths while reducing my gaps

  19. Is Coaching the New Guidance? Is this model applicable to Guidance?

  20. Is Coaching the New Guidance? In HBoS, coaching is promoted as an investment in excellence, not as a procedure for dealing with poor performance

  21. Is Coaching the New Guidance? • Is coaching/guidance a remedial process? • is it also for high flyers? • Is it for everyone?

  22. Is Coaching the New Guidance? Do we: • work with the individual? • assume people are competent? • engage in constructive confrontation?

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