Department of Applied Social Sciences Community Coaching Methodologies (active listening; questioning techniques; goal orientation & setting) Master Class Series in Local Community Development Tuesday 26th February 2019 Dr. Bridget Kirwan Department of Applied Social Sciences

Presentation Overview What you want to learn/know more about? What is Coaching? Skills of good coaches. Coaching and Community Development?

What is Coaching The key principle of coaching is a creative process that inspires beneficiaries to maximize their personal and professional potential. The role of the coach is to ask questions and be passionate about helping people pursue their own solutions, ensuring and emphasizing clients’ ownership and responsibility of his/her ideas and solutions. This approach will be crucial, as the focus of INTERFACE project will be on self-empowerment of fragile communities wanting to define and reach their own goals. Source: INTERFACE https://interface-project.eu/interface-starts-coaching-for- fragile-communities-in-europe/

Definition of Coaching.. Coaching is a partnership of equals whose aim is to achieve speedy, increased and sustainable effectiveness through focused learning in every aspect of the client’s life. Coaching raises self- awareness and identifies choices. Working to the client’s agenda, the coach and client have the sole aim of closing the gaps between potential and performance. Rogers, J. (2012). Coaching Skills : A Handbook (Vol. 3rd ed). Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education.

What is Coaching?

Business Coaching?

The Position of the Coach

What does the Coach bring?

Key Skills: Questioning What's Standing In Your Way? Can You Tell Me More? What Will Happen If You Don't Take This Step? What Does Success Look Like? What Are Your 'Five Whys?' What Are You Most Proud Of? What Do You Want? What Have You Done To Try To Solve The Problem?

Key Skills: Questioning What Does your community Need Most Right Now? What Will Things Look Like After You've Been Successful? What Is The Most Important Thing In The World To You, And Why? What's Important About That To You? So What? Why Not?

Key Skills: Listening

But what does that mean in the context of Coaching?

Key Skills: Listening

Questions? ‘…you do not give birth yourself but you play a vital role in enabling the mother to do so. The Socratic Method involved solving a problem through forming a question. In doing so you would be forced to look at your own beliefs, questioning their validity.  Source: Rogers, J. (2012). Coaching Skills : A Handbook (Vol. 3rd ed). Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education.

Coaching Model

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