Coaching & Mentoring Tips

Challenging and Reframing Perceptions

Coaching and Mentoring Tip Sheet Perceptions and beliefs influence behaviour. Disadvantage can result where perceptions and beliefs limit a person’s opportunities. As such, we need to ensure that perceptions and beliefs are evidence based and valid, not built upon inaccuracies and/or subjective bias. Questions that promote validation of perceptions and beliefs can assist in testing […]

Bridging the Void – identifying strategies to achieve a goal

Coaching and Mentoring Tip Sheet At times, a participant may have trouble identifying strategies to achieve a goal – their mind simply draws a blank. Strategies to bridge this void include requesting the participant to identify a time: When they were in a similar situation and ask; What worked for you then? What did you […]

Giving Feedback

Coaching and Mentoring Tip Sheet Giving and receiving feedback can be difficult – very few people like being told…and, in some ways, it can be counter-productive. Coaching promotes meta-cognition and reflective practice with participants to facilitate self-generated feedback, for example: What has stood out for you? What has surprised you? What went well? What is […]

Clarifying thought and language

Coaching and Mentoring Tip Sheet Language and thinking form a critical and complex interrelation. Fuzzy language can often be indicative of fuzzy thinking. Prompting clarity of thought and language can help to disentangle, analyse, interpret, organise and frame a person’s perceptions, understandings, aspirations and goals. Here are a couple of tips to assist in creating […]

GROW Coaching Sample Questions

Coaching and Mentoring Tip Sheet There are a range of strategic questions that can be delivered through the GROW coaching process. Develop your own catalogue of questions – here are a few tips to get you started: G – Goals What goal would you like to achieve? What would you like to accomplish? What would […]

Demonstrating Emotional Intelligence (EI)

Coaching and Mentoring Tip Sheet A critical component of effective coaching and mentoring practice is the consistent demonstration of emotional intelligence (EI) by the facilitator. EI contributes to creating a safe place for the participant, promotes engagement and builds trust around the coaching/mentoring relationship. The concept EI was developed by Daniel Goleman (amongst others) and […]

GROW Coaching

Coaching and Mentoring Tip Sheet GROW coaching articulates a structured process of questioning that facilitates metacognition, promotes reflective thinking and guides strategic planning. It is a skill that can developed through practice over time. Goal               What would you like to achieve? Reality           Where are you […]

Coaching and Mentoring – Important Differences

Coaching and Mentoring Tip Sheet Coaching and mentoring are both valuable tools to promote and sustain growth and development. They are different, but not mutually exclusive and can be used in tandem to great effect. Mentoring is interventionist and directive – it provides guidance and support. It is most effective when a person has limited […]

Purposeful Conversations

Coaching and Mentoring Tip Sheet The coaching process facilitates purposeful conversations resulting in: the establishment of self-determined goals; the identification of actions required to attain the goals; and a commitment to act. This can be achieved through a range of strategies that promote solutions focused reflective practice, which drives continual growth and development. Central to […]

Building Trust

Coaching and Mentoring – Tip Sheet Central to any effective coaching relationship is trust, which can be hard earned and easily lost. It is the currency of coaching practice. Trust is built over time through the consistent demonstration of character and competence. Nonetheless, new relationships can also prosper whilst trust is established. Character and competence […]

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