Coach Training Isn't Just For Sessions or Crucial Conversations!
Love the picture above! Everyone is served via coaching:)
Yes, some of our trainees have set up coaching practices.
Others have "hung up a shingle" and launched a side hustle offering coaching sessions.
But for the most part, our trainees use coaching in their current roles and relationships.
Here are a few of the most common spaces in which coaching culture is used:
- Pastors or Ministry Leaders use it pastorally to make disciples, not enable dependents.
- Business Leaders implement it in their one-on-ones and in passing conversational check-ins.
- Small Group Leaders engage in partnering with their group members as they walk out their personal journeys.
- Parents can use it with little ones as well as with adult children. With littles, parents teach them to grow in confidence and understand the consequences of their decisions. With adult children, the choices are broader, but the outcomes are very much the same - instilling confidence and assistance in weighing the consequences. ...
This Just In - Commentary On Coach Training
In the Bridges Life Coach certification course, we use a variety of adult learning techniques, and one of them is online discussion. We share different questions throughout the learning process so the trainees can interact with the material and process it by restating it, or sharing how it applies in their own life situations.
Among other things, we share about topics like why it is often hard to trust that God has a plan, what it looks like to actively listen in a real life situations, or how to ask empowering questions.
The following comment came from a list-building question requesting input on honest reasons we like to retain control. The trainee's words are in blue and italics.
I take control because apparently I know what's best for everyone!! I never knew I was such a know-it-all all when it comes to other people's lives! But it is out of concern and wanting what is best for them.
I love the honesty here! Whether we acknowledge it or not, most of us do think we know what...
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