This document outlines a workshop on using coaching skills to support engagement with learning technologies. The workshop objectives are to help participants identify challenges, reflect on their coaching skills, learn coaching techniques like questioning and listening, and consider how to apply these skills in their roles. Various activities are described to help participants practice coaching, including setting goals, considering options, and planning next steps. Key coaching models like GROW and techniques for effective questioning and listening are also covered.
3. Workshop objectives
By the end of this workshop you will have:
• identified common challenges
• reflected on your current coaching and facilitation skills
• developed your understanding of different techniques that can be used within coaching to
improve performance
• engaged in and reflected on a peer coaching activity to develop deeper listening and powerful
questioning techniques
• considered the application of the coaching techniques within your job role
4. Activity 1:The bigger picture
In pairs discuss
What national policies or initiatives have significantly influenced
approaches taken to teaching and learning in your organisation?
5. Activity 2: The local picture
What are you doing here in Derby?
• What is Derby’s vision with Learning Technologies?
• What difference will this make to teaching and learning?
• What is already happening?
• What organisational constraints are you be working within?
• How are you using technologies within your role?
16. Enhancing coaching conversations
Powerful questions
• Harness your curiosity
• Be direct
• Short is good!
Examples
• What do you really want?
• Where do we go from here?
• Is this a time for action?
• What action?
17. Enhancing coaching conversations
Deeper Listening
•Internal listening
- focus on self
•Focussed listening
- focus on the other person, empathic, absence of ‘mind chatter’
•Global listening
- 360°listening, intuitive, noticing everything that is around you
19. Action Research
Use GROW
Goal: improve differentiation
Identify all the Options
Use an Action Research mini-project
Take one option
Action with support, review
20. Activity 7: Developing your Coaching Skills
Working in threes, take turns to adopt the role of coach, coachee and observer.
Focus on using the GROW model – powerful questions and reflective listening.
• As a coachee choose a card from the Diamond 9 activity or a topic which is relevant to your
particular role;
• As a coach, build in the use of powerful questions and deeper listening to develop the session,
probe the coachee and help them to move forward and come to some conclusions.
• As an observer, listen and make notes. When giving feedback (to the coach only), be descriptive,
specific, non-judgemental and refer to things that could be changed or improved.
23. Workshop objectives
By the end of this workshop you will have:
• identified common challenges
• reflected on your current coaching and facilitation skills
• developed your understanding of different techniques that can be used within coaching to improve
performance
• engaged in and reflected on a peer coaching activity to develop deeper listening and powerful
questioning techniques
• considered the application of the coaching techniques within your job role
24. Activity 8: Effective coaching: where am I?
• On a scale of 1 - 10, how confident do you feel in undertaking coaching conversations?
• Which skills and qualities do you need to develop further?
• What support could help you achieve this?
WHAT?
A description
of the event
Having an
experience
in teaching
Purposefully
reflecting on
selected aspects of
that experience
Actioning
the new
learning
from that
experience
NOW WHAT?
Proposed actions
following the
event
Discovering what
learning emerges
from the process of
reflecting on practice
SO WHAT?
An analysis of
the event
The “What Model” of Structured Reflection
(Driscoll, 2000)
25.
26. Professional Dialogue
Professional Dialogue
A structured style of interaction used to facilitate and develop others’ capacity to plan and implement change or
development
Key elements: Review & evaluate the current situation
Clarify purposes, intentions
Develop clear, effective strategies for moving forward (tasks, milestones, etc.)
Plan and firm up desired outcomes, along with appropriate outcome measures and interim success indicators
Regularly monitor and review progress towards desired outcomes
27. Professional Dialogue - Skills
• Self awareness
• Reflection
• Questioning
• Active listening
• Summarising and feedback
Look through Handout “Structuring the Professional Dialogue”
Spend 10 minutes as a table group exploring how the Professional Dialogue approach
differs from the GROW model
Feedback to the whole group
29. Activity
Work in Pairs
One of you choose a topic you would like to work on. This can be the same
as the topic chosen for coaching.
Your colleague will now help you develop your plan by questioning,
listening, guiding, Use the blank PSOR structure sheet to develop a plan
