COACHING

COACHING is a form of development in which a person (the coach) supports a learner in achieving a specific personal or professional goal.  The term COACHING may be used to explicitly include a focus on an individual’s needs and accomplishments, close observation, and impartial feedback on performance.  COACHING in more formal usage is focused on improvements in behavior and performance.

Partners for a Greater Voice (PGV) is a non-profit organization with the mission of raising the potential of children with hearing loss through parent education and empowerment.  A major initiative of PGV is Essential Programs to COACH and Empower Caregivers of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children.

Joanne Travers, the President/Executive Director, of PGV is taking a PRACADEMIC approach, applying COACHING in practical ways for parents and teachers around the world, but also learning the academic side of COACHING. Joanne shared with me an article titled “The use of coaching principles to foster employee engagement” which starts with “The emerging area of POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY …” and then identifies three themes or individual drivers for engagement among individual people: Focusing Strengths, Managing Emotions, and Aligning Purpose.

A SIMPLE way to describe those 3 drivers is a drive for “Being Good at Being Good and Doing Good” or more grammatically correct “Doing Well at Being Well and Doing Well”