Peer Coaching

Aims & objectives

Overview
Peer-to-peer coaching is a valuable leadership tool for both personal and team leadership development. It helps at various organizational levels become more accountable for their personal leadership development, while developing coaching and communication skills that make them more effective leaders of others in the organization. The participants work with a team of peers to: Support individual leadership development goals; Share lessons learned in leadership and management skill improvement; Brainstorm new approaches to workplace challenges; and Identify breakthrough solutions to leadership and management challenges.
The program begins with a training course that outlines a six-step coaching process model designed to help them develop themselves and others to drive superior performance. Throughout the training session, participants reflect on what they are learning about themselves as coaches so they may progress toward building effective coaching behaviors and skills, and are able to overcome challenges encountered during the coaching process.
 
Learning Objectives
 Define coaching and describe the link between managing and coaching
 Describe the differences between coaching and other communication modes
 Identify effective coaching behaviors and situations in which it is inappropriate to coach an
individual
 Explain how social styles and patterns can impact a team effort
 Identify your coaching style and adapt your coaching style to different individuals
 Establish a solid presence with individuals who you coach
 Ask probing questions to help an individual explore a situation, and reframe what individuals say
to help them gain new perspectives about a situation
 Describe a six-step coaching process model
 Explain how to apply the coaching process model when working with geographically dispersed
individuals
 Apply coaching skills during peer coaching sessions
 Develop a plan to apply learned knowledge and skills to the workplace

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

Teachers of the school.

Training methods used & main activities

The course was based on self directed learning, process oriented and used Council as a community communication method. I have used the whole toolbox of non-formal education, and here with an emphasis on simulations, coaching, drama methods, feedback and self-reflection.

Outcomes of the activity

After the project participants were able to:
Define coaching and describe the link between managing and coaching.
Describe the differences between coaching and other communication modes.
Identify effective coaching behaviors and situations in which it is inappropriate to coach an individual.
Explain how social styles and patterns can impact a team effort.
Identify your coaching style and adapt your coaching style to different individuals.
Establish a solid presence with individuals who you coach.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Full time trainer
concept development
facilitation
reporting

I worked on this training for 5 days as a full time trainer.