Coaching Model
Success Coaching Model Stages
Success Coaching is forward movement that assists a student with moving toward goals the student has established for him/herself while maintaining school and life balance.
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The coaching process begins with the desired student goal.
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Movement is forward toward goals through self-discovery focusing on factors that influence thinking and decision-making of the student. Ontological coaching models (OAR, BEL, and Historical Discourse) are used, along with assessment tools (MBTI, Holland Code, True Colors) that may be utilized to illustrate natural thinking and decision-making patterns.
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Goal-Setting encompasses an outline of specific goals established by the student. The Action-Plan includes step-by-step plans for achieving goals.
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Action-Plan Assessment reviews the Action Plan to determine progress or to make Action Plan adjustments to achieve success.
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Goal Achievement focuses on student celebrations!!! Student has achieved established goals.
The Success Coaching Model places emphasis on the student being solely and directly responsible for his/her success and goal achievement.
What is Success Coaching?
Success Coaching assists students with achieving their defined goals with an emphasis on school and life balance. Success Coaching applies proven strategies and competencies that result in forward movement toward goal achievement. Students will make self-discoveries about factors that influence their thinking and decision-making to then assess if the factors lead to the good decisions or poor decisions that determine goal achievement. Success Coaching may have an inclusive focus on life management, and on academic, social, and a variety of personal goals, each of which may impact overall student achievement and success. Success Coaching provides a trusting relationship and environment that allows students to examine and determine if their decision-making leads to goal achievement resulting in their success. Students are solely and directly responsible for their success and goal achievement.
Coaching is Not
Coaching is not therapy, academic advising, career counseling, mentoring, consulting, tutoring, teaching, or counseling of any kind.
Coaching Is
Coaching is forward movement with action planning that assists students with moving toward their established goals. Coaching focuses on new possibilities and options that will move students toward their set goals as a school and life balance is maintained. The ultimate goal of Success Coaching is to increase the success of students by moving students from point-A to point-B with an action plan that is co-designed by the student and the success coach with full input and agreement from the student.
What Students Experience with Success Coaching
- Prior to the first coaching session online profile forms, a prep-assignment and pre-questionnaire are completed.
- Students meet one-one-one with their success coach.
- Coaching methods that will be used during coaching are reviewed.
- Students review, discuss and sign the coaching agreement.
- Students are asked to share general information about oneself this begins establishing the coaching relationship.
- The completed online forms that include student goals is reviewed and guides the coaching session.
- Students reflect and talk a great deal about themselves that leads to action plan development.
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Success Coaching is about the individual student and provides an opportunity for students to make self-discoveries, and to focus on new possibilities and options for forward movement toward goal achievement.
- Students and their coach co-design an action plan with specific steps and completion dates.
- Action plan outlines SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-table) and accountability.
- Students schedule their next coaching session before departing.
- The first Success Coaching session is scheduled for one-hour.
- The remaining three coaching sessions are 50-minutes to coincide with class schedules.
- Students schedule minimally four coaching sessions.
Students enjoy and find coaching beneficial, as coaching focuses strictly on the student, what is important to the student, and how the student wants to proceed toward his/her goal achievement.