Putting Research into Practice

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Putting Research into Practice

• Rosalind Healy Uclan
• Associate Head, Centre for Employability,
• Academic Manager, CETH (Uclans Cetl)
  Employability Coordinator, Agcas

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Exploring whether a knowledge of Coaching can
inform guidance, with particular focus on
decision-making
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Why this Step?

• Our PROP sub group identified decision-making as
  an area of careers guidance somewhat lacking in
  resources and expertise.
• We were interested in how (and if) coaching might
  address decision making
• So we organised ourselves some initial insight
  and development in coaching.

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Our objective

• To explore how Coaching approaches can support
  career guidance work, specifically Decision
  Making. To use this knowledge and insight to
  develop a resource, tool or process that will be
  useful to careers guidance practitioners in
  assisting clients with their career (and perhaps)
  life decision making.

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4 main aims

• 1 To inform ourselves about the background and
  underpinning philosophies of Coaching such as
  when and how it started, what are its roots, what
  disciplines it draws on, what are the main
  research or academic works and who are the key
  practitioners.
• 2 To become aware of the professional ethics,
  codes and values of coaching.

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• 3 To learn some basic processes of coaching how
  does coaching help people to make decisions, what
  model or models of decision making are used.
• 4 To practice some simple coaching techniques
  that may help careers professionals decide if
  they wish to pursue further training and
  development.

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How we proceeded...

• Identified a trained, qualified and experienced
  practitioner in coaching
• www.chartwellcoaching.co.uk
• Briefed her on the needs and background of the
  group
• Ros and Zoë worked together to draft a suitable
  programme for a 24 hour training session
• Found a suitable venue
• http//www.confluencecentre.co.uk/

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Participants

• Nine participants came to the event
• 2 from Reading University (Careers)
• 2 from GIEU
• 2 from Bradford LDU
• 1 from Uclan
• 2 from Sheffield Hallam (Careers)
• - a fantastic group!

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The programme

• We deliberately built in plenty of time for
  discussion and reflection
• The group operated as a client in a coaching
  session through questioning eg How do you wish
  to use this time?
• Responsibility for decision making deferred to
  group itself

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Before the event

• Zoë modelled the sessions on a coaching approach.
  This meant we directly experienced the processes
  that help us make decisions. Before the meeting
  we were encouraged to consider
• What two things would we like to come away with
  from this workshop
• What single question would we like answered
  through the workshop?
• And to also consider the model (or models) of
  decision making that we currently use - either
  implicitly or explicitly

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We explored...

• How coaching differs from guidance (that was
  quite a discussion)
• How it differs from counselling (luckily we had
  trained counsellors amongst us)
• How coaching techniques and styles can inform our
  own guidance skills

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• We practised on each other and learnt a lot.
• From time to time we stumbled to a halt.
• Zoë made us responsible for our own decision
  making and planning as a group
• It was energising and a bit scary...
• which is just like coaching can feel

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What coaching is

• A purposeful conversation that helps people to
  create the life (changes) they want
• Dialogue exploring WHY you act the way you do
• What beliefs are forming these actions
• How to go about getting what you really want
• Maintaining motivation

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What coaching isnt

• Counselling
• Therapy
• Mentoring
• Advice giving

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Coaching is about Questioning

• What would achieving this goal give you?
• What will tell you that you have achieved your
  goal?
• What is positive about what you are choosing?
• What would the answer be if you did know it!
• and lots of other very powerful questions

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• This made us think carefully about all the
  decision making tools and expertise we already
  possess
• Coaching is another one for the kitbag

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The outcome of our experiences...

• As a group we wanted to produce or create
  something from what we had learnt
• Lots of ideas were floated training courses, an
  Agcas module, a book, a project, journal
  articles, a webpage...

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• We brainstormed all the decision-making tools and
  concepts we knew about
• And decided a most useful outcome would be to
  each take one or more that we were familiar with,
  to briefly outline it and to log these on the
  Moodle site that Becka had already established
• http//www.blogs.prospects.ac.uk/moodle/

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• We would eventually make the resource or toolkit
  available to the profession in some way or
  another.
• We set a target date to upload the materials...

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• Pat - MBTI
• Feel the fear and do it anyway
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• Helen - NLP - Well Formed Intentions
• Robert Dilts Logical Levels
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• Russell - DeBonos thinking hats
• Egan's Skilled Helper model
• PMI
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• Kevin - NLP 2 - 3 Chair triad work
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• Kent - Lifeline exercise and points of transition
• Stress management techniques and locus of control
• Change strategy Good - bad now and later / future

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• Zoe - Task / behaviours triangle
• Storying -- Joseph Connor
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• Becka - Kubler- Ross sabotage / validation
• General decision-making questionnaire
• Storying - metaphors - Margaret Parkin
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• Ros - CIP
• Martin Nemco - Peter's life changer
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• Peter - Windmills - lottery balls and MI Tribes
• Gardner and RIASEC
• Information Interviews Daniel Porot
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• David - Change management technique - force field
  analysis
• Matrices - using them and making them

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After the event

• Throughout the two days we learnt how to apply
  simple coaching techniques and after the event
  Zoë asked us to complete the cycle started
  initially by asking us to consider the following.

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• What was most significant for me from the 2 days?
• What does that tell me about myself and my work
  just now?
• What do I need to do to ensure that I keep hold
  of these things?
• When am I going to do that?
• If I had to share one thing from the programme,
  what would it be and who would it be with?
• What do I need to do, to get more support for all
  of this?

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Will (deadline)

• Our efforts will be posted by 15th June
• We hope the resources will be useful to advisers
  but have not decided how to disseminate them.
• Ideas welcome...
• http//www.blogs.prospects.ac.uk/moodle/

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Davids Options Matrices page
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Kents Lifeline
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What next?

• We have another PROP session in July. We will
  take things forward then.