Developing a Coaching Mindset: Enhancing Voice, Equity, and Responsivity
Why does every top athlete and team have a coach? We take coaching for granted in sports, because we know it is key to ongoing growth and success. Coaching is an evidence-based leadership practice, but most leaders do not coach. Imagine the positive effect on recidivism and success rates if coaching was a routine part of how we develop ourselves as leaders, our staff as change agents, and our clients as good citizens!
In this “hands-on” skill-based workshop, Tom O’Connor, Ph.D. and Samantha Collins, M.A., LPC, who coach executives and teams nationally and internationally, will share their coaching model with you and show you how to develop a coaching mindset. A coaching mindset fosters equity, because it places the emphasis on the client’s voice instead of the officer’s voice. It maximizes responsiveness to the needs of different clients and the structural contexts they live in. The client is the expert in their life, not the staff person. Good coaches enable the voice and gifts of the people they coach.
Tom and Samantha have over 50 years of collective experience working in the criminal justice system. Their coaching model is called COVE which stands for Coaching Options that are Versatile and Effective. COVE sequences and blends a set of evidence-based practices that help people develop and change: role clarification; Motivational Interviewing; cognitive-behavioral skill practice; coaching; and learning. The model is versatile and effective in any kind of coaching relationship such as manager to supervisor, supervisor to staff, staff to client, and peer to peer. The model works if you have five, fifteen, or fifty minutes to coach. Yamhill County has successfully implemented the COVE model, and it was recently featured as the lead article in an international peer-review journal called Advancing Corrections.
