Coach Certification Mentor Training

Coach Mentoring Is…• The process of coming alongside a person or team to

encourage, enable, empower and EQUIP others well as they move toward coaching competency.

• A Mentor necessitates that someone has something to teach or pass on connected to a specific skill set.

• A Mentor is someone who had gone before and pours in.

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Coach Assessment Results

Mentors Qualifications:All Mentors must meet or exceeded Mission Alive’s

standards to become a mentor.

Focus: Identify most important areas in coach's development Accountability: Follow-up on previous action plans Synthesize: Take data and apply it quickly in a training format

Integrate: Coaching process with technology Challenge: Bad habits & wrong assumptions Skill-based action planning Model competent coaching skills

Mentors Responsibilities:

• Provide coaching for coach-in-training as schedule (according to the Coach Certification Mentoring Guides).

• Model quality coaching skills.• Utilize CoachNet's online coaching tool. • Discuss readings. (You must be familiar with the readings.)• Help the coach-in-training select people to coach. • Debrief CTL1 content.• Provide a sounding board for their coaching experience. • Debrief the Online Assessment feedback. • Help coach-in-training create a Personal Growth Plan. • Pray consistently for coach-in-training.

Adult LearningHow to help people get the most out of The Coach Certification process

Ten key principles applied:

• Adult learning is based on recognized need.• Adult learning takes place in a safe environment with healthy

relationships• Adult learning involves proper sequence and reinforcement.• Adult learning involves practice and reflection• Adult learning allows learners to make decisions and control the

process.

Adapted from Learning to Listen Learning to Lead, by Jane Vella, Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Ten key principles applied:• Adult learning allows for the expression of facts, ideas and

feelings• Adult learners need to see the immediate usefulness of new

ideas• Adult learning often involves team work• Adult learning actively engages the learner• Adult learning requires accountability

Adapted from Learning to Listen Learning to Lead, by Jane Vella, Publisher: Jossey-Bass

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Mentoring Tips

When the light goes on!

Powerful Questions

Online Coaching Tool

Benefits of the online coaching tool• Log key issues and outcomes • Set the agenda for meetings in advance • Record prayer needs • Review the record to follow up on important items and

celebrate progress • Set action items with due dates for completion • Automatically send reminder emails for your next

appointment

Using the Coach Certification Mentoring Guides

Orientation:

• Sessions 1-3• Begin 6 weeks prior to the Initial Coach Training event• These serve to familiarize Certification Candidates with

coaching, CoachNet, Coaching 101, and the certification process

• Candidates need to read Coaching 101 and Leadership Coaching prior to these sessions, as well as demonstrate competency with the Online Coaching Tool

Coaching Guides

Implementation:• Sessions 4-6• Session 4 one month from training. Monthly intervals

thereafter• As Certification Candidates begin coaching 2 individuals

upon completing the training, these guides insure that effective coaching is happening.

• It is essential that each Certification Candidate is actively coaching prior to session 4. Don’t proceed until this is happening.

Coaching Guides

Evaluation:

• Sessions 7-9• The Certification Candidates’ Coachees will give informal

feedback through Mid-Course Evaluation Forms and formal feedback through the Online Coach Assessment.

• Focus on implementation of identified areas for growth.

Coaching Guides

Overview Coach Certification Mentoring Guides

Insights:

Ah ha!Oh no!

Duh!Wow!

Hmm…

Discuss Best Practices

Thanks!