Coaching for Success
Critical thinking task
Take the time now to think about your own experience. You will be guided by questions which prompt you to explore how you behave and interact with others. This will provide you with insights that will help you understand and interpret the content in this module.
Allow approximately 30 minutes to complete this task.
Start your journal
Set up a learning journal you can use to capture and reflect on your thinking as you respond to the tasks in this module. Your journal may be a note book or digital document.
How do you help others?
Think of a past experience (perhaps as a WIL partner) where someone has asked you for advice for a particular task or problem they were facing. Record your answers in your journal.
- What was the first thing you thought about when they came to you for help?
- How did you respond?
- How much energy did you invest in understanding their perspective of the situation?
- How much of your own experience did you share in providing your response?
- How much of 'the answer' did you provide to the person, and how much of the answer did you let them figure out on their own?
- Based on this reflection, which mode(s) of interaction were you operating in while responding to their request (look at the figure above for reference)?
- Was your approach to helping the person effective with respect to getting results?
- Was your approach effective with respect to helping them learn (did they learn to persist in problem solving, or did they keep returning to you for advice)?
- What would you do differently, or the same, next time the same person asked you for advice?