Coaching me, coaching you — aha!
Topic: Peer Coaching
As modern teams become less hierarchical and more distributed — we can all deliberately support each other’s daily development, goal-focus, creativity and wellbeing through practicing everyday coaching skills and behaviours, as peers.
And as well as with our peers, these coaching skills and behaviours can be really helpful in other key relationships too — whether that’s clients, colleagues we might be managing on a project basis or even family members. Because they’re all about bringing empathy and enablement into the conversations that count, and the moments that matter to those close to us.
YCN Coach-Facilitator Matt Cook shares insights from a Peer Coaching workshop
Core content covered:
First and foremost these coaching behaviours are focussed on listening and questioning well. They’re about connecting with someone in a way that gets them thinking critically, creatively — and into an active and developmental mindset.
In our collaborative Peer Coaching workshops — and through the tools and pathways that support them — we experiment and learn with a focus on live challenges and opportunities, building the confidence and accountability to continuously flex these skills in the future.
We cover:
— Defining a ‘coachable moment’
— Interrupting our tendency to problem solve
— Actively listening
— Questions to create Clarity, Alternative Perspectives and Next Steps
— Connecting coaching skills to goals
— Coaching ourselves through active reflection
At the Miro board linked to below you'll find a digital copy of our everyday coaching card deck, alongside other useful tools for bring a coaching style into key conversations. And if you'd like to get your hands on a physical copy — just drop us a line.
Build this skill in your team
How we can help
Delivered in-person, virtually or hybrid — our expert facilitators will engage and energise your team around the topic, enabling them to collaboratively apply things to what's real for them right now.
Accessible on our platform, or imported to your own — blended, social and experimental learning pathways bring development to life at any pace preferred.
Bitesize digital and physical tools keep core concepts covered in minds, hands and conversations — all within the flow of work.