1-HOUR INTERACTIVE ONLINE SESSIONS TO SUPPORT COURSE GRADUATES

As part of the Mentor-Coaching Institute’s training, we are offering additional 1-hour interactive online sessions to support course graduates in integrating and sustaining their mentor-coaching skills, mindset and stance.

Objective of these sessions

One of the biggest challenges in providing impactful professional learning is to build in opportunities for learners to practise and integrate new learning in their environment. Trying on new skills is often anxiety-producing and messy. Furthermore, as adult learners not very comfortable with “not knowing,” we are often in a hurry to become confident and competent at the expense of meaningfully integrating new learning. These additional sessions are thus designed to support the graduates in truly integrating the mentor-coaching skills into their daily practice.

Who these sessions are for

These group sessions are designed to support graduates of the Mentor-Coaching Institute’s 4-day Interactive Program and graduates of the Foundational Coaching Skills Program. Participants can be grouped as existing team or interested individuals from different districts.

What these sessions provide

These sessions provide participants with further opportunities to practice with the support of an ‘expert’, thus continuing to integrate and sustain the mentor-coaching skills, attitudes and behaviours that are essential for supporting capacity building.

HOW THESE sessions WORK

  • 1-hour interactive and online.
    Sign up for one or a series of three (save 15%)
  • Hands on!
    • Coaching practice with feedback
    • Demonstration coaching with a structured debrief
    • Virtual roundtables for exploring individual mentor-coaching successes and challenges
  • Focused on the critical mentor-coaching skills
  • Adapted to meet the learning and contextual needs of the participants
  • Facilitated by Kate Sharpe, co-author, experienced certified coach and co-founder of The Mentor-Coaching Institute

Contact us for pricing and scheduling information.

The focus of these sessions

The following is a list of critical mentor-coaching skills that will serve as the basis for the one-hour sessions. The focus will be adapted to meet the learning and contextual needs of the participants.

Being present and listening deeply

Suggested areas of focus:

  • listening as a mindful practice; listening with intention
  • listening for deeper meanings
  • listening for the mentee’s language and using in question

Asking impactful questions

Possible areas of focus for session:

  • asking questions that support the mentee in digging deeper
  • asking strategic questions to get at the “real needs”
  • asking questions to help the mentee develop their own plan for growth

Self-managing: staying out of fixing, solving, and interpreting; it is the mentee’s work

Possible areas of focus for session:

  • stretching others in their development and not fixing/solving their problems for them
  • remembering not to be attached to/impose my own ideas, opinions and suggestions
  • being mindful that I need to see the good in what people are doing

Offering and inviting feedback: nourishing growth

Possible areas of focus for session:

  • being purposeful re integrating the MCI feedback frameworks: acknowledging, holding up the mirror and sharing observations
  • providing clear feedback that feeds forward
  • rehearsing offering challenging feedback

Co-creating the mentor-coaching relationship

Possible areas of focus for session:

  • seeing the relationship as co-created, reciprocal and non-hierarchical
  • serving as a thinking partner to help the mentee stay clear and focused
  • ensuring that learning, growth and goals are the central focus for the relationship

Navigating the mentor-coaching conversation: key questions for each layer

Possible areas of focus for session:

  • getting out of the driver’s seat and using the MCI framework to support the capacity building process
  • using the path and key questions in a variety of coach-like conversations
  • practicing questioning skills in awareness (red zone) and not rushing to the doing (green zone)

REGISTRATION

Interested in registering for this 4-day interactive program? Have questions about upcoming dates?
Please email Kate Sharpe directly at kate@mentor-coachinginstitute.com THANK YOU!

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