Coaching is a dialogue between a coach and client, group, or team with the intention of finding creative ways to solve challenging problems or improve team performance on key initiatives. The coach's role is to draw out expertise through inquiry, curiosity and challenges so that clients can stretch into their best selves.
Benefits of Coaching
People need coaching now more than ever! While a lot are feeling overwhelmed and like they're wandering in the desert, we are at a pivot point in our culture and in the church. Coaching can help a leader unlock possibilities, expand their options, and create accountability for completion of goals.
Lay leaders, deacons, priests, and bishops are all invited to consider coaching A coaching relationship:
recognizes each person as resourceful, creative, and whole
focuses on the goals and issues of the coachee
is a self-discovery process where the coachee can discover new aspects of themselves
helps expand the possibilities for a coachee's life and ministry
is action oriented
challenges a leader to take calculated risks
offers support to a leader
provides accountability
The focus on coaching will always be generated by the coachee, and the coach is a partner who listens deeply, asks powerful questions, so that the coachee might set goals that are attainable and timely.
Coaching Formats
Individual Coaching - a one-on-one experience - 1 coach and 1 coachee
Group Coaching - a group of people (clergy, senior wardens, diocesan staff) who would like to learn by being coached and witnessing others being coached.
Team Coaching - a team of people who would like to increase their effectiveness together. 1 or 2 coaches and the team work together.
Curious what coaching looks like? Watch this demo with 2 Province V coaches.
Coaching is not: - mentoring - consulting - training - counseling - spiritual direction
These are all very useful tools, but they are not coaching.
The Leadership Coaching Project was launched to support lay and clergy leaders in Province V. If you might benefit from coaching, go to the "I'm looking for a coach!" page.
This project is brought to you by the leadership of Province V and the Diocese of Fond du Lac. We are grateful to the Roanridge Trust Grant Program for the grant to launch this project.
