Collegial Coaching
Collegial Coaching is a professional development method aiming at increasing collegiality and improving performance. It is a confidential process through which professionals share their expertise and provide one another with feedback, support, and assistance for the purpose of refining present skills, learning new skills, and / or solving task related problems. Hence, actions that might improve the use of the skills and knowledge are explored. There are five Functions of successful Collegial Coaching:
Companionship: Talk about success and failure with a new approach.
Feedback: Give each other objective, non-evaluative feedback.
Analysis: Help each other extend the control over a new approach.
Adaptation: Work together to fit an approach to the special needs of an assignment.
Support: Provide needed support.
Steps in a Collegial Coaching
- Define roles: (A) Requesting person and (B) coaches.
- A exposes the own situation and formulates the core question for the coaching.
- Coaches (B) ask questions of understanding; A provides answers.
- Coaches (B) discuss among themselves about A's case and about the way he presented it. They share own experience of similar situations and challenges. A just listens.
- A reacts on the discussion of the coaches. If needed, steps 2 to 4 are repeated (new core question).
- A declares next steps to do.
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