PEER COACHING

PEER COACHING

Course Duration: 5 days
Course Fee: 400€

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 Outcomes
All the participants will
- 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

Objectives of the course
- Defining coaching and peer coaching
- Learning partner peer coaching sessions
- Analyzing coaching and other support disciplines
- Using Peer Coaching
- Getting familiar with self-assessment
- Classifying active and empathetic listening
- Understanding good listening skills necessity
- Comparing peer conflict and peer bullying

Methodology
- Identifying peer coaching
- Providing immediate feedback
- Working in a group cooperatively
- Discussing distinctions of coaching

Course Topics
Introduction to Coaching and Peer Coaching

Social Styles
- Self-Assessment: Social Styles
- Social Styles Model
- Peer Coaching Session: Social Styles

Core Coaching Competency-Listening
- Why Do You Need Good Listening Skills?
- Levels of Listening
- Active Listening Techniques
- Empathetic Listening

Core Coaching Competency-Questioning
- Questioning
- Types of Questions
- Demonstration: Disempowering and Judging Questions Versus Empowering and Learning Questions

Coaching Process Model for Peers
- The Coaching Process Model for Peer Coaching
- Peer Coaching Session: Set SMART Goals
- Peer Coaching Session: Discover and Learn
- Demonstration: Reframe Your Thinking
- Peer Coaching Session: Reframe Your Thinking
- Peer Coaching Session: Commit to Action

Peer Coaching Process in Action
- Full Class Peer Coaching Session
- Learning Partner Peer Coaching Session II

Planning for the Peer Coaching Virtual Sessions
- Virtual Sessions
- Structure of the Peer Coaching Virtual Sessions
- Virtual Sessions Schedule
- Group Confidentiality Agreements
- Ground Rules
- Group Task and Maintenance Roles

Developing an Action Plan
- Exercise: Formalize Personal Action Plan


Target group
- Teachers, trainers, educators, school administrators, etc.

Preparation
Before the course,
- A detailed pre-course questionnaire to indicate their level of experience, teaching backgrounds, and training will be completed by participants.
- They will also prepare a presentation to reflect their own teaching method.

Validation
- A course participation certificate will be given to all participants.
- A Europass Mobility Certificate will be given if the participant demands it, as well.