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Newsletter 11, 2007:
Facilitation Skills
Facilitating Personal and Professional Growth in Your Teams
Available now: Workshop
booklet and PowerPoint "Embedding Coaching & Mentoring in Your
Organisation" for you to conduct your own
PD. (See below).
Coaching and Mentoring differs in many respects from the work we do in
teaching. It is an important priority in which many of us would
value the opportunity to gain extra skills. This article below
gives us a few clues, while the workshop program and PowerPoint
provide more information in significant depth.
How to Coach
(Introduction to an article by
Trisha D. Scudder)
What do top performers in tennis,
football, the Olympics and performing arts have in common? They aim for the
highest level of excellence - and they work with a coach.
To them coaching isn't about
something being wrong. It's about something more being possible. A coach sees
things the player can't see. And that perspective and the unique way of
communicating called coaching makes all the difference.
A coach's role is distinct from the
role of a manager, teacher, doctor, therapist, friend or confidant. It is a
relationship of equals, both committed to breakthroughs in the performance of
the coachee.
Everyone wants to enhance his or her
effectiveness and results in life, so everyone would benefit from skilled
coaching. Look around you. Who would benefit if you were capable of coaching
them on some important goal? An employee? Colleague? Client? Spouse? Friend?
Teenager?
Being a professional executive coach
requires years of training and experience.
(Our PD program is an excellent introduction.) Click
HERE for the complete article
describing the seven necessary elements for being an effective, informal, unpaid
coach.
Have you ever worked with or for a
neurotic leader?
Here is a list of 7 Neurotic Styles of Management (by Kurt
Motamedi of Pepperdine University) and I can relate to every one of them. During
35 or so years in education I have encountered just about all of these. I think
this list fits under the heading of dealing with difficult people.
Here are the seven styles:
1. The Explosive
2. The Implosive
3. The Abrasive
4. The Narcissist
5. The Apprehensive
6. The Compulsive
7. The Impulsive
To download a summary of the the article and its description of the impact
on people of these disastrous styles,
CLICK HERE.
TRAINING MATERIALS:
Our materials take the effort out of quality professional
development, allowing you to deliver the goods at a realistic cost.
These are provided in electronic format to keep costs low. Hard
copy (full colour laser print) and files on CD cost $33 + P&H extra as
you would understand.
Embedding Coaching &
Mentoring
Coaching
and Mentoring can be used to effectively unlock the potential that
already exists within any organisation.
The organisation’s most
valuable resource is its people or put more concretely, the knowledge
and passion that resides within the hearts and minds of its people.
Within this Learning package you will learn how to introduce coaching
and mentoring within any organisation.
Program
Description
Within this Learning
package participants will develop competence in:
Why Do We Need Coaching and
Mentoring?
Beneficiaries of Coaching
and Mentoring?
- The
Coach/Mentor
- The Employee
- The Department
- The Organisation
Coaching
- Definition
- What is Coaching?
- Characteristics of an Effective Coach
- Attitudes For Effective Coaching
- Types of Coaching
- Coaching For Effective Actions
Six Ways to Start Coaching.
Designing a Coaching
Program.
- The
Coaching Concept
Skills For Effective
Coaching.
-
Communication
- Providing Feedback
- Giving Instruction
Mentoring
- Definition
- Differences between Coaching and Mentoring?
- Informal Mentoring
- Formal Mentoring
- Characteristics of Great Mentors
- Why Use Formal Mentoring
- Mentoring and Business Objectives
Piloting a Mentoring
Program.
Five Mentoring Models.
Program materials:
54 page workbook (MS Word) and 79 slide PowerPoint.
Cost: $55.00 incl GST.
Email Mel
to order, providing school order number and address details. |
High Performance Organisation
Workshops
The
High Performance Team:
Eight out of Australia's top 10 companies use TMS programs.
Companies such as Westpac, BP, BHP Billiton, the Defence Forces, IBM,
ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, Thiess, Siemens, Johnson & hohnson, Woolworths,
Bunnings, ... grow people through TMS programs.
TMS is a "home grown" Queensland company that has grown to become an
international force in leadership and team development. It now operates
in 160 countries.
Their programs have been used with huge, multi-national corporations in
banking, finance, aviation, industry and the Defence Forces with significant success.
Contact Mel if you and your team have any needs in any of these areas:
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Teamwork & Leadership
- Conflict Resolution
- Project Management.
Mel is
fully accredited as a facilitator for the Team Management Systems
(TMS) profile and the
innovative
action learning solution, Communication and Problem Solving
(CPS) Program (see
a video on CPS by the program's author).
Any questions about CPS and its benefits?
Check for
answers here.
Mel will be able to help design a program that will suit your team's
development needs. With 35 years in EQ, a degree in Business,
teacher qualifications, Cert IV (Workplace Training and Assessment), Dip
Bus (Frontline Management) and 13 years at a Band 11 level, he has the
qualifications and experience to help!
Email
Mel Phillips (or phone on 07 5530 2676) to discuss how you and your
organisation can grow your skills and achieve improved outcomes.
Read
Case Study #1 on how understanding others' work preferences will
improve many areas of work and effectiveness.
Read
Case Study #2 to see how improving understanding work
preferences improved organisation and lifted morale.
MindSights™ "Your Mind At Work"
This
easy-to-use software
is an amazing tool for all leaders who want to excel at their jobs.
The MS Word software complements all our training and development
materials. It provides thinking and planning patterns based on tasks you face!
These are
the sections in our "Consultants On Demand" software. This
software provides around 500 pages (17.4 Mb of files) of templates for
actions, prepared meeting agenda formats and expertly developed
facilitation questions to assist in rapid progress towards goals.
CLICK HERE
to download a free
demonstration version of "Consultants On Demand" (170kb
download)
Problem
Solving Consultants
Basic
Problem Solving
Systems Problem Solving
Root Cause Analysis Problem Solving
Resolve Major Problems.
Innovation
& Performance Improvement Consultants
Brainstorm,
Creativity & Innovation.
Performance Improvement.
Describe & Define.
Planning
Consultants
Strategic
Planning.
Goal
Setting.
Preferred
Futures.
Management
& Leadership Consultants
Project
Management.
Time
Management.
Decision
Making.
Team
Building.
"Thinklets"
These are amazingly
useful tools for leaders as part of the process for making things
happen.
CLICK HERE for a working demo version of "Thinklets Toolkit"
that shows the full range of amazing tools available. (370kb download)
Please
contact Mel with suggestions for
improvement, requests for articles, etc. Please let me know how
useful this is. Feedback is valuable in improving the service -
thanks.
In
response to a request, I will soon have an archive of past "Pearls of
Wisdom" and Newsletters available from our new and improved website. |