Coaching is a dialogue between a coach and an individual, 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
    Individual Coaching allows for a person to have a 1-on-1 conversation with the coach. The session focuses on the leader’s needs, plans, and goals. This format is ideal for leaders who are very focused on personal growth and development and need time to process their challenges and develop their plans. 
     
    Leaders that might appreciate individual coaching: Senior Wardens, Vestry Members, Church Staff Members, Clergy, Committee Chairs, Bishops.

  • Coaching Clusters
    Coaching Clusters are set up for triads of people to be coached in a 90 minute session, each getting 30 minutes of coaching. The members of the group are often people with something in common, with each working on their own goals. This format is ideal for leaders who would like to be coached while also connecting with other leaders who have similar challenges. This format allows for each person to be coached individually while also hearing others getting coached, which can sometimes lead to deeper learning. Coaching Clusters also allow for community and network building.
     
    Leaders that might appreciate coaching clusters (where your group consists of the same role): Senior Wardens, Vestry Members, Church Staff Members, Deacons, Priests, Chairs of Diocesan Standing Committee, Chairs of Diocesan Commissions on Ministry.
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  • Team Coaching
    Team Coaching focuses on a whole team of people and the work that they are trying to do together. This group is together because they have a common goal and mission or they are trying to define that common goal and mission. Sometimes the people aren’t yet functioning as a team and want to learn how to be a better team, and sometimes the team wants to take their mission and ministry to the next level of efficiency. 
     
    Teams that might appreciate coaching: Vestries, Church Staffs, Diocesan Staffs, Camp and Conference Staffs, Parish Committees, Diocesan Standing Committees, Diocesan Commissions on Ministries.

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.

​If you are interested in being a coach, go to the "I want to be a coach!" page.

Leadership Coaches are available to you!

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.

Province V's guideline for a coaching session is $50-150.
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.