Step Up Coaching session 2

I attended the Step Up Foundation Coaching second session. I attended the first session last week and wrote about it soon afterwards. This 2nd session was the same as the first but held at a different place (City Hall where the Step Up Foundation event is next Thursday and Friday (23, 24 February 2006)) and hosted / led by a different person (Jon from the Business School), and ofcourse at a different time. However for me, I partipated and listened closely to what was said and even wrote notes. I'll present the notes. I didn't need to take as many photos as another lady was there doing the same. Here are my notes from the day.

The attitude of teens is one of

1. Explorer - find out more
   
2. Cruiser - just cruising along
   
3. Prisoner - don't want to be there
   

The coaches should have

1. Open mind - Coaches should go in with this
   
2. Sense of fun
   
3. Love and care for the teens - be friends
   
4. Sense of contribution - eg. your own way to add value, everyone puts in, that's what makes it work
   

"The triangle"

The three corners:

1. Focus
   
2. Beliefs - If its possible for you then its possible for me - its just a matter of how!
   
3. Strategy - see Key coaching basics
   

Key coaching basics

1. Terminology - call them "teens", not "kids"
   
2. Respect - we respect them for even turning up
   
3. Suspend Judgment - suspend our judgment of the teens - treat them as human beings that have unlimited potential
   
4. Trust - if they trust you they'll open up
   
5. Confidentiality - don't say much about yourself since its all about the teens. Put the focus back on them. People like others who are like themself. Build repore, such as learn about current music so you can sound not so uninformed and 'old'.
   
6. Powerful listener - 'Why?' asks about the past and the problem, not the solution. Ask 'what' or 'how' questions instead. Such as What did i learn from this, or How can I do things better.
   

Why choose business for Step Up?

Because there is no discrimination in business.

You're role as coach

1. Facilitator
   
2. Mentor teens - answer with a question (most of the time). Such as "Great question! What are the options we have?". Since its about them not you.
   
3. Assist participants to get the most out of step up
   
4. Provide a safe and trusting environment
   
5. Be yourself, have fun. You will never be cool so don't even try!
   

Topics discussed at the event

1. Business planning
   
2. Marketing / sales
   
3. Operations / customer service
   
4. Team work
   
5. Finance / budgeting
   
6. Personal leadership
   
7. Achievement
   
8. Success modeling
   
9. Goal setting
   
10. Overcoming challenges
    
11. Challenging life
    

Key Step Up models

If its possible for me then its possible for you - its just a matter of how

Reinforce this belief

Success Model

Decision x Action = Results
Don't be a 'gunna', be a 'doer'
(I wrote about this more in the first session).

Success / failure definition

• Success is a few simple disciplines practised every day (discipline is knowing what you should do, when you should do it and even if you don't feel like it).
  
• Failure is a few errors in judgment repeated every day.
  

Above the line / below the line

Will do / commit / must Success
Now --------------------------------------------> Future
Try / should / might Failure

Something is hard until it becomes easy!

Secret

A breakthrough is a breakwith - a breakwith existing beliefs