What Makes a Great Coach?
Great coaches often make it look easy, but there’s a lot going on under the hood. We’ve identified the following essential mindsets, skillsets, and toolsets of great coaching. All of our Constructive Coaching experiences focus on the following:
Mindsets
- curiosity
- empathy
- partnership
- Continuous growth
- value powerful teaching and learning
- value truth
Skillsets
- Giving and receiving effective feedback
- Having powerful coaching conversations
- Coaching through cycles
- partnering with teachers and leaders
- designing and delivering powerful learning experiences for groups
- communicating the purpose and practice of coaching
Toolsets
- listening & empathizing tools
- feedback tools
- collaboration tools
- questioning tools
- goal-setting tools
- coaching cycle tools
