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Coaching for Skill Development

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Coaching for Skill Development

Navigating Challenges in Performance Coaching

Encouraging Resilience and Adaptability

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Coaches facilitate this by offering continuous feedback, guidance, and opportunities for individuals to grow, make informed decisions, and improve their problem-solving and communication abilities.

This process builds confidence and aligns individual strengths with the overall team or organizational goals .

It aims to create a conducive learning environment where people can practice and apply newly acquired competencies.

Coaching for skill development focuses on empowering individuals to improve their specific abilities, guiding them to master personal, interpersonal, and leadership skills.

Coaching for Skill Development

These challenges require effective communication, patience, and adaptability from the coach to ensure the coachee's growth and improved performance.

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+ Expectations

+ Emotional Barriers

Navigating Challenges in Performance Coaching

+ Blind Spots

+ Trust

+ Overcoming Resistance

Navigating challenges in performance coaching involves several key factors:

These attributes work together, and their balance may shift depending on the situation. Developing resilience involves nurturing a combination of these qualities over time.

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Encouraging Resilience and Adaptability Resilience is often misunderstood as stoically enduring pain without showing emotion, which can be seen as a sign of weakness. In reality, resilience involves managing emotions rather than suppressing them. A lack of visible emotion might indicate incomplete emotional processing, which can lead to unhealthy reactions later on. Phrases like "suck it up" or "move on" can mask unresolved feelings, as shown by an executive who appeared calm after a difficult meeting but later lashed out at her assistant due to pent-up frustration. True resilience requires acknowledging and working through emotions to find adaptive responses. Additionally, resilience is not about perfect success; it's about completing productive actions most of the time while acknowledging that non-resilient moments will occur. The key is to maintain a balance where productive behaviors outweigh the non-productive ones.

Resilience

Blocks to Developing Resilience

Encouraging Resilience and Adaptability

Basic

• Bossons, P., Kourdi, J. Sarain, D. (2012). Coaching Essentials. Practical, Proven Techniques for World-class Executive Coaching. 2nd Edition. Bloomsbury.
• Chandler, S. (2012). Connection. How Coaching Changes Lives. Robert D. Reed Publishers. eISBN: 978-1-934759-70-7
• Hromek, R. (2007). Emotional Coaching. A Practical Programme to Support Young People. A Lucky Duck Book. Paul Chapman Publishing. SAGE Publicaions Company. ISBN13 978-1-4129-2016-2 (pbk)
• Mthemmu D. (2007). Team Coaching. Series Editor Marius Meyer. Knowres Publising. ISBN: 978 1 86922 384 7 E-book
• Neenan, M & Dryden, W. (2013). Life Coaching. A Cognitive Behavioural Approach. 2nd Edition. Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-203-75831-1 (ebk)
• Nelson, K.J, Hernez-Roome, G. Ely, K. DiRosa, G.A. (2011). The Leadership Coaching Sourcebook. A Guide to the Executive Coaching Literature. Center for Creative Leadership. CCL Press.

Complementary

• Dunbar, A. (2017). Clean Coaching. The Insider Guide to Making Change Happen. Routhledge. ISBN: 978-1-315-73866-6 (ebk)

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Balancing Expectations Both parties must set realistic goals, and coaches need to help coachees maintain focus without overwhelming them.

Establishing Trust Building a trusting relationship between the coach and the coachee is essential for open communication and growth.

Overcoming Resistance Coachees may resist feedback or change, so coaches must help them recognize the value of new perspectives and practices.

Resilience is shaped by several interdependent attributes that help individuals navigate adversity. Key qualities include:

• High frustration tolerance: Enduring challenges without excessive complaint or self-pity.
• Perspective: Assessing difficulties calmly and focusing on what can be controlled.
• Self-acceptance: Accepting personal struggles without harsh self-judgment.
• Adaptability: Being flexible in response to changing circumstances.
• Support from others: Seeking and accepting help from positive relationships.
• Self-control: Managing emotions and staying focused on long-term goals.
• Curiosity: Exploring and learning from new experiences.
• Self-belief: Confidence in shaping one’s own life, paired with self-control.
• Seeking meaning: Finding purpose in adversity, such as discovering inner strength.
• Humor: Lightening tough situations and not taking oneself too seriously.
• Problem-solving skills: Overcoming internal obstacles and executing action plans.
• Mindfulness: Acknowledging negative thoughts without being consumed by them.

Dealing with Emotional Barriers Coaches assist coachees in managing emotions such as fear or frustration, which can block progress.

Blocks to developing resilience are unhelpful mindsets that prevent people from responding effectively to challenges. These include:

1. Blaming others ("It’s not my fault, I’m a victim") – Feeling helpless and avoiding responsibility for change, even when options exist.
2. Believing you’ll never recover ("I’ll never get over it") – Thinking adversity is permanent, when in fact, growth can emerge from hardship.
3. Viewing oneself as a failure ("I’m a failure") – Tying identity to failures, rather than seeing behavior as changeable.
4. Asking "Why me?" –Dwelling on unfairness rather than accepting that adversity can happen to anyone.
5. Denying reality ("It shouldn’t have happened") – Focusing on what “shouldn't” have happened, instead of learning from the event and moving forward.

These beliefs keep individuals stuck in unproductive thinking and hinder resilience-building.

Addressing Blind Spots Coaches help coachees identify personal blind spots, areas of performance or behavior they may not recognize but need to improve.