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Week 4: Your Role as a Coach
Discussion: Good Coach/Bad Coach
Both positive and negative examples of behaviors and skill sets can be useful in helping to develop your professional skills. Take coaching in a business context, for example. If a former manager built up your knowledge and confidence, guided you through difficulties, and ensured that you had the tools to take on future challenges, then you would likely try to emulate what they did if your goal were to become a better coach. However, if a former manager set ambiguous expectations, offered little assistance, and micromanaged your daily routine, then you could also use that experience to be a better coach by vowing never to turn out like them.
In this Discussion, you will explore one positive and one negative experience you have had with being coached by a manager, coach, or other leader, including how you will use this knowledge to further your own development as a coach.
To prepare for this Discussion:
Review this week’s Learning Resources, especially:
· How to Be Good at Performance Appraisal – see pdf
· Becoming a better Coach – see pdf
· What leaders should know – see pdf
· Coaching Conversation Checklist for Smart Managers | Perla Coaching and Consulting
· Giving Effective Feedback – see pdf
Assignment:
Post an evaluation of your experiences being coached by others and how you will use that information to promote your own development as a coach. Specifically:
· Describe one effective and one ineffective experience of being coached by others.
· For the effective experience, evaluate the coach’s actions and explain how they demonstrated effective coaching. Be sure to refer to this week’s Learning Resources to support your assertion.
· For the ineffective experience, evaluate the coach’s actions and explain an action they could have taken to be a better coach. Be sure to refer to this week’s Learning Resources to support your assertion.
· Summarize at least three key takeaways from this evaluation for developing your own skills as a coach.
· 3 – 4 paragraphs
· No plagiarism
· APA citing
Note: When using specific examples from your professional experience, be sure to disguise the names of any individuals or organizations.