Coaching

1. Coaching Read the document “Introduction to Coaching”

2. COACHING Take time for personal reflection. Identify one specific ministry challenge for which you would like to have coaching. Now write the background, current situation, and options you can identify for that ministry challenge. Identify helping and hindering forces.

3. Coaching Form a group of three. Work for five minutes and write a definition for coaching you feel fits church ministry that you can share with the larger group.

4. WHAT IS COACHING? Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

5. “Coach” as a role probably derives from “coaché” – a carriage used for transportation – and connotes (as we will use it here) “to take someone from where they are to where they want to be.” (Collins, 2001, p. 14.) Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

6. Definition With regard to the industry, the modern overarching definition of coaching is ‘to bring a person from where they are to where they want to be.’ Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

7. Coaching is about sustained behavior change. Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

8. Coaching supports, encourages, plans new ways of action and provides accountability to reinforce those new ways. Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

9. Coaching remains an evolving “art” or profession as well as an evolving skill set. (Zeus & Skiffington, 2001, p. 6.) Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

10. COACHING In the group of three, each take a role as coach, person being coached, or observer. In this first practice session, provide a 20 minute coaching session (coach to person being coached) The observer should be silent then give 5 minutes of feedback from notes they have taken when time is called.

11. “Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.” (Whitmore, 2002, p. 8.) Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

12. More definitions of Coaching: • Coaching is helping people decide where they want to go, how they want to get there, and how they want to be held accountable for it. • Coaching helps people who want to close the gap in their lives between where they want to be and where they are. • Coaching is playing the role of “co-pilot” to another’s “pilot”. • Coaching is the act of empowering people toward their God-given greatness. • Coaching is pastoring, and pastoring is “equipping the saints for the work of ministry” (Ephesians 4:12). Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

13. COACHING In the group of three, rotate your roles as coach, person being coached, or observer. In this second practice session, provide a 20 minute coaching session (coach to person being coached) The observer should be silent then give 5 minutes of feedback from notes they have taken when time is called.

14. WHAT COACHING IS/IS NOT • Training – focuses on fixed agenda • Management Consulting – concentrates on providing answers • Therapy – deals with healing or repairing something that isn’t currently functioning, usually something from the past • Counseling – takes remedial approaches to repair deficits • Mentoring – usually career focused, creates future behaviors based on the wisdom and expertise of someone other than the person being mentored, essentially one-to-one teaching • Coaching – focuses on the client’s agenda • Coaching – concentrates on asking questions and evoking answers from the client’s own wisdom • Coaching – deals with pro-active, forward motion focused on the moment • Coaching – emphasizes strengths and achievements to leverage growth and development • Coaching – not exclusively career-focused, supports the wisdom of the client Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

15. THE FLIP SIDES OF COACHING IF IT IS NOT: THEN IT MUST BE: • Telling • Directing • Being the Expert • Micro-Managing • Self-Promotion • Listening • Drawing Out or Asking • Holding Others as Capable • Holding Others Accountable • Advocating and Celebrating Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

16. COACHING In the group of three, rotate your roles as coach, person being coached, or observer. In this third practice session, provide a 20 minute coaching session (coach to person being coached) The observer should be silent then give 5 minutes of feedback from notes they have taken when time is called.

17. THE ROLES OF A COACH • To: • Focus • Celebrate • Advocate • Align • Inspire • Refine • Challenge • Facilitate • Observe • Structure • Operate Ethically Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

18. COACH TO THE GAP • The Gap Real Ideal Where they are Where they want to be Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

19. WHAT HINDERS CLOSING THE GAP? • Lack of clarity about goals • Lack of commitment • Inability to envision a preferred future • Too many distractions • Lack of resources • The “GREMLIN” Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

20. Coaching: A Developmental Method Coaching is one of a battery of options in the portfolio of possibilities for professional and personal development. It should be viewed as a method that supports and is supported by other transformative methodologies aimed at positive growth. Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary

21. Personal Transformative Models(Stanley & Clinton Model) Intensive Occasional Passive Discipler Spiritual Coach Guide Counselor Teacher Sponsor • Models • Contemporary • Historical • (hero) More Deliberate Less Deliberate Stanley E. Patterson, PhD, SDA Theological Seminary