Coaching Skills Report: Reflecting on Coaching Skill Development

This report provides a reflective analysis of coaching communication skills, focusing on personal challenges and skill development. It begins with an introduction outlining the report's structure, which includes a reflection on acquired strengths like active listening and empathy, as well as challenges faced, such as formulating open-ended questions and maintaining a neutral perspective. The report identifies areas for improvement, including non-violent communication and immediate responses, and proposes a 3-month action plan with SMART goals to enhance coaching abilities. The author aims to improve active listening, formulate open-ended questions at ease, and express empathy. The report also mentions the resources that would be used to enhance coaching skills and concludes by summarizing key findings and the proposed plan for skill development.

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Running head: Coaching Skills Report
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Assessment 1: Coaching Skills Report

Coaching Skills Report
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Report- Reflection...........................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9
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Introduction
This report highlights the coaching communication skills based on personal challenges as well as
skill development. This reflective report is illustrated based on the Discussion Board entries in
order to offer a skill development journey. The structure of the report initiates with learning
skills that have significantly impacted the course of life followed by coaching skills that I like to
develop by analyzing the negative impact on my coaching ability. Lastly, a vision would be
created with a 3 months goal along with two weekly smart goals to reach the 3 month goals in a
detailed manner.
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Report- Reflection
The strengths that I have acquired based on active listening, open questions and reflection was
the ability show empathy and listen in relation to a non-judgemental perspective. In addition, I
also developed my empathic communication skills by comprehending the feelings of my friend
with active listening, (Yule, 2013). I gained confidence through appreciative inquiry that assisted
me to acknowledge my virtues and strengths as well. Based on challenges, the orders of the list
of the question was critical in appreciative inquiry for me. Furthermore keeping the conversation
neutral while expressing empathy to my friend, it was also a critical challenge, (Argyle, 2013). I
also faced challenges during open-ended questions as there are times when I run out of ideas as
well as over thinking the conversation was also a significant difficulty. The new perspectives that
I have analyzed are to improve my listening skills, reduce over thinking a particular statement,
enhance the empathetic skill, as well as non-judgemental perspective, has contributed towards
my learning and skill development. The main obstacle that I have analyzed to change is to
communicate with people in the crowd as well as react to situations based on empathy. The
positive learning outcomes that I have attained from the coaching communication experiences
are improved listening skills, expressing empathy to others, attaining non-judgemental
perspective and effective communication with others. The impact of this learning for me is
highly credible as it assisted me to develop my communication skills efficiently that would
certainly assist me to make informed decisions and collaboration with other members, (Beck and
Gong, 2013).
One coaching skill that I would like to develop is non-violent communication and empathy. As I
have learned that at certain times I do not make rational decisions or response to other as
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required, developing such a skill would enhance my coaching skills. One habit that has
negatively impacted my coaching ability is to not provide or make immediate response while
someone else is expressing their feelings or sadness. This, in turn, can critically disrupt the
coaching skills, (Bereiter and Scardamalia, 2013).
Habits that I wish to unlearn that interferes my coaching approach is closed ended question
habits and directive approach as I do not express my feeling based on other feelings. As during
the discussion weeks, I have observed that the ability for open ended question was complex for
me. Hence, I would like to eliminate closed ended question habits for effective communication,
(Hackman and Johnson, 2013). I am trying to increase my awareness and practice of empathetic
skills and open ended questions habits for coaching communication skill development. In
addition, mindful listening would also highly assist me to make a significant strategy to
acknowledge virtues, (Brown et al. 2013).
Based on personal coaching Action plan, one coaching skill that I would like to develop is to
express empathy. Expressing empathy based on the provided situation has been a critical task for
me as I lack the ability to deliver immediate response. In addition, I have observed that my
inability to face open opened questions at ease is also critical that would be significantly
developed through empathy, (James-Ward, 2013). My vision is to actively listen to the
perception of others based on which I can show immediate response and empathy for comforting
the situation.
3 months goal
Activities 1st month 2nd month 3rd month
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Active listening
Showing immediate
response towards open
ended question
Expressing empathy in
distinct situations
Smart goals 1 (Active listening by involving group discussions)
Specific The goal is specific as it would assist me to enhance the
listening ability that would assist me to accomplish my
long term goal.
Measurable It is measurable as it would analyze the feedbacks from
others during discussions.
Attainable It is attainable as I have already initiated such task
through discussion weeks.
Realistic It is highly realistic for developing coaching
communication skills.
Timely 1 week
Smart goal 2 (To develop abilities for open ended questions at ease for strengthening my
coaching skills)
Specific The goal is specific as it would assist me to enhance my
ability to answer questions at ease without facing any
challenges.
Measurable It is measurable as it would be measured with the pace
of development of my communication skills through
reflection.
Attainable It is attainable as I have started to communicate and
observe people.
Realistic It is highly realistic for developing coaching
communication skills.
Timely 2 weeks
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The two resources that I would use to enhance my coaching skill are my supervisor and my
friends. My supervisor would assist me to analyze the drawbacks and flaws that I have already
have in me as well as would recommend strategies to attain my goals based on my vision. On the
other hand, my friends would support me to make significant progress and offer feedback on the
areas that need more improvement so that I can enhance my listening skills, ability to face open
ended questions as well as to express empathy with immediate response, (Trower et al. 2013).
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Conclusion
Therefore, through the entire reflection report, I analyzed that I lack the skills to express empathy
and make an immediate response based on the provided situation. In addition, open-ended
questions are highly complex for me. However, by improving my listening ability and appreciate
virtues, I can eliminate each obstacle that I am facing at present. Furthermore, the 3 months goal
would be a positive aspect with the integration of two SMART goals for mitigating the obstacles
that I am facing while developing my coaching communication skills.
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References
Argyle, M., 2013. Bodily communication. Routledge.
Beck, J.E. and Gong, Y., 2013, July. Wheel-spinning: Students who fail to master a skill.
In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 431-440). Springer,
Berlin, Heidelberg.
Bereiter, C. and Scardamalia, M., 2013. The psychology of written composition. Routledge.
Brown, G.A., Bull, J. and Pendlebury, M., 2013. Assessing student learning in higher education.
Routledge.
Hackman, M.Z. and Johnson, C.E., 2013. Leadership: A communication perspective. Waveland
Press.
James-Ward, C., 2013. The coaching experience of four novice principals. International Journal
of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2(1), pp.21-33.
Trower, P., Bryant, B. and Argyle, M., 2013. Social skills and mental health (psychology
revivals). Routledge.
Yule, G., 2013. Referential communication tasks. Routledge.
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