Understanding Your Coaching Practice
Develop your practice to enhance the learning experience
DIVE INLearn how to create high-quality holistic learning opportunities that support participants to progress
Why do I need to know about coaching practice?
As a coach, your primary role is to help individuals improve and progress as people, participants and performers. To achieve this, you need to explore how learning happens, and understand what can help the people you coach to learn more effectively as they work towards goals that are relevant to them.
Your coaching practice is the toolkit that you can use to ensure that you're being supportive, effective and proficient. It should include everything from the basic, underpinning principles of Plan, Do, Review, through to your practice design, communication tactics, and how you make observations and decisions to guide your feedback and support. The combination of these elements is what makes learning engaging and 'sticky,' creating 'moments' for the people you coach.
When you combine these 'moments,' your coaching practice, and the environment that you provide, you can create high quality holistic learning opportunities, maximising the experience for all.
Below, discover the pillars of this theme to aid your understanding of your coaching practice. You'll also find UK Coaching Club membership details with which you can unlock access to the resources of the Coach Learning Framework.
Understanding Learning
Consider how to offer the appropriate challenge and support to meet each individual's stage of development and needs and provide opportunities for them to make decisions and choices
Learning Climates
Explore the principles behind creating a safe environment, development pathway, how to support participants through transitions, and how to prepare the people you coach with wider holistic development
Practice Design
Explore the guiding principles of great practice design and consider how you can create sessions that support your participants' unique needs
Developing Autonomy in Participants
Consider how to combine learning and coaching practice to shape the learning environment and develop key skills
Reflective Practice
Consider how the 'magic ingredient' of reflection can help you develop your coaching craft and guide the growth of skills essential in any coach's toolkit
UK Coaching Club
As a UK Coaching Club Member, you'll be able to dive into the essentials of each theme for free. This includes the insightful 9-theme 'Guides', engaging 'Coaching Conversations', and our 'Kickstarters' designed to get your coaching off to a flying start.
Framework Guide
With this comprehensive guide, you'll explore what is and isn't in your control, and how to create high quality, holistic learning opportunities for all
READ THE GUIDE
Coaching Conversations
Watch coaches share their lived experiences, offering real-life examples and strategies to help you immediately grasp the theme of ‘understanding your coaching practice’ and enhance your ability to communicate effectively during your sessions
WATCH THE VIDEOS
Kickstarter
Download activities that invite you to reflect, consider, and try out new approaches to help your participants learn more effectively and become independent learners
DOWNLOAD THE ACTIVITIESUK Coaching Club Premium Membership
Coach Learning Framework
Continue your journey through the framework to learn more about the other eight themes and the key attributes of high-quality coaching environments, and how you can demonstrate the skills, qualities and behaviours that will empower the people you coach to achieve their personal goals.