Facilitator's Presentation Style:
-"Learning not Lecturing" -
The Behavioral Coaching Institute's (BCI) expert facilitators: - aim to ensure that the advanced and
challenging course is delivered in a lively, personable and structured
manner.
- are enthusiastic and passionate about
what they do and strive to create a highly motivating, energetic
atmosphere with poise and
professionalism.
- aim to engage the whole
person through the focus on learning rather than teaching
- have a proven
capacity to engage and excite people from
diverse backgrounds.
- aim
to engage participants in a spirit of ‘serious play’ –a mindset
suggested by American educationalist
and philosopher John Dewey as being
ideal for learning.
-
use
positive humour as a learning tool in a sometimes demanding learning
schedule.
Cross-Learning Event: A Conversation
between Experts
The coach training workshops are high-level dialogues
between experts from many fields who share an interest in developing
master coach skills. The facilitators acknowledge the strengths and
expertise of the participants. They strive to create a collaborative
learning environment of peers working together to assist each other in
achieving their individual learning goals.
Groups are diverse – on specific coaching experience, skills,
backgrounds and interests. All participants gained entry to the program
on the basis of considerable professional credentials and their people
development experience. The diversity in the strengths of the group
offers opportunities for learning.
BCI's experience informs us that some of the main variables in predicting the degree
of learning from the course are: - curiosity; willingness to
self-reflect; openness to feedback; degree of engagement with others;
and willingness to take responsibility for one’s own learning.
A Real World Approach / Action Learning
BCI's facilitators use a unique hands-on,
interactive style of learning interspersed with their own real-world
experiences and examples.
The workshops are highly practical and
experiential. The learning methodology is action learning where
participants are facilitated through continuous cycles of planning,
action, and reflection.
The focus is on ‘skills’. The aim is
sustainable master coach skill development.
Tools and techniques are succinctly
introduced. The facilitator(s) then use and model master-coach
techniques to assist participants in small group and paired practice
scenarios. Course partcipants have numerous opportunities to practice
learnt skills and engage in follow-on review.
Participants are encouraged to bring real
issues to the workshop and to focus on them in guided coaching role
plays.
BCI has developed a unique triple-tiered
learning environment:
1.
Facilitators use advance master-coach skills to develop
participants’ coaching skills, thus allowing observational learning
opportunities;
2.
Participants practice coaching skills in the ‘coach’ role; and
3.
Participants work through real coaching-related challenges in the
‘client’ role.
Feedback
The partcipant's learning goals are regularly re-visited
to ensure they are on track. Coaching and supportive feedback is also
provided by fellow participants as well as the course facilitator(s).
Participants are encouraged to view feedback as information and to give
and receive it in a spirit of learning and development. Feedback is
non-judgemental. It is provided and accepted simply as the in-the-moment
observations of each person of what is going on in the here-and-now of
the workshop.
We use ‘contrast coaching’ which follows the
participant’s agenda and tracks behavioural development. The
participant is
encouraged to notice the ‘before and after’ impact on their coaching
skills over the four days; and to assist others to do the same.