Performance Coaching
Today we are going to define Performance Coaching, using David Kolb’s Learning Cycle. Many coaching clients will seek coaching for performance enhancement rather than the rectification of a performance issue. Coaching has been shown to be highly successful intervention in these cases. When an organization is paying premium rates for development services, performance is usually the key pay-back they are looking for. Even if an executive or manager receives support in balancing work and home life, it will be with the aim of increasing their effectiveness and productivity at work and not for more altruistic reasons. Performance coaching derives its theoretical underpinnings and models from business and sports psychology as well as general management approaches. As a performance coach you should advocate David Kolb’s Learning Cycle:
- Life gives us "gifts" in the form of opportunities to have experiences.
- Coaching provides the opportunity to get feedback from these experiences – this is achieved by questioning and clarifying.
- Further probing and questioning creates insights and common themes which lead to the learner reflecting on the experiences, the action that was taken and the consequences of this action.
- From these insights and personal discoveries, conclusions are drawn that, if sufficiently powerful, can relate back to other current or past situations.
- The valuable lessons learned from this exercise are then applied to future situations in the form of experiments.
- From these experiments, experiences are provided as well as further opportunities to learn more and the cycle goes around again.
Being a Coach you will find, Kolb’s learning cycle becomes so much more effective when approached from a coaching perspective. Are you a ‘Coach’? Are you a business personal or professional coach? we would like to hear from you, write us at admin [at] contemporaryva [dot] com Professional-Coaches.com
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