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Coaching and Mentoring in Health and Social Care of the nursing fields.

Assignment requirements:

For the assignment brief, "Coaching and Mentoring in Health and Social Care (with assignment brief P.8-11)"

Learning Outcome 1: Critical understanding of the principles, theories and research underpinning C&M

Learning Outcome 2: Critical understanding of its practice within organisations, in particular the role C&M can play in developing and managing people.

Learning Outcome 3: Apply these principles to practice and relate these to your own working environment

Learning Outcome 4: Critically analyse & evaluate benefits, concerns and ethical dimensions of C&M.

Learning Outcome 5: Undertake and critically review a coach-mentoring conversation using appropriate principles and techniques.

Assignment - Critical Reflection

During the period of this module you will be expected to undertake one coach-mentoring sessions using a coaching module and reflective framework. You will be expected to use your experience during one of these coaching sessions as a central focus for part of the assignment.

Review one of your coach-mentoring sessions, using relevant theories to explore, explain and justify your intended approach. Such theories may relate to the assumptions that may have influenced your approach, the framework that guided your practice and the skills, tools and techniques you applied.

Critically Reflect (on thoughts, feelings, actions) on the session based on what happened : before the session, during its initiation, its progression and ending .You can also consider any coachee feedback/ evaluation and any unexpected outcomes for the coachee or yourself.

Consider and discuss the learning that you can take from this session and your reflection on it, then discuss and debate how (what options there would be) for approaching subsequent sessions with this client.

Based on your experiences from this session and on the module more generally, identify and justify what will you need to do to enhance your own development in coaching or Mentoring over the next 12 months.

Identify what challenges may arise (from within yourself and external sources) and how you would address these.
NB Please use academic texts and articles and not management or training websites from the internet!
Please attach the skills assessment form and post coaching/mentoring session forms as appendices to the assignment

Emotions give us energy
Coach uses empathy within the relationship to access the affective domain
Questioning and challenging stimulate emotions
Helping client to manage their EQ - understand and effectively manage emotions
Reflection can tap into emotions giving energy to challenge current ways of thinking

First, consider the quality of the evidence and the validity of the findings. Is this paper an example of good quality evidence which you can rely on?

Then consider how the content of the paper may help you develop your coaching/mentoring development

Self-Assessment Form 1

Question
1. Do you show interest in career development, not just short-term performance?
2. Do you provide both support and autonomy?
3. Do you set high yet attainable goals?
4. Do you serve as a role model?
5. Do you communicate business strategies and expected behaviours as a basis for establishing objectives?
6. Do you work with the individual you are coaching to generate alternative approaches or solutions that you can consider together?
7. Before giving feedback, do you observe carefully and without bias, the individual you are coaching?
8. Do you separate observations from judgements or assumptions?
9. Do you test your theories about a person's behaviour before acting on them?
10. Are you careful to avoid using your own performance as a yardstick to measure others?
11. Do you focus your attention and avoid distractions when someone is talking to you?
12. Do you paraphrase or use some other method to clarify what is being said in a discussion?
13. Do you use relaxed body language and verbal cues to encourage a speaker during conversation?
14. Do you use open-ended questions to promote sharing of ideas and information?
15. Do you give specific feedback?
16. Do you give timely feedback?
17. Do you give feedback that focuses on behaviour and its consequences (rather than vague judgements)?
18. Do you give positive as well as negative feedback?
19. Do you try to reach agreement on desired goals and outcomes rather than simply dictate them?
20. Do you try to prepare for coaching discussions in advance?
21. Do you always follow up on a coaching discussion to make sure progress is proceeding as planned?

Self-Assessment Form 2

Recall what coaching experience that you have had in the past and assess yourself utilising the following questions.
1. Describe the coaching experience

2. What did YOU do that was effective (either as the coach or coachee)

3. What could YOU have done that would have been even better?

Thinking about your current coach mentoring experience assess yourself against these two core skills.
1. What questions might you want to try in a coach - mentor session?

2.What can you do to enhance your questioning skills?

3. What listening skills do you want to develop?

4. What can you do to enhance your listening skills?

Reflecting on the self-assessment exercises review your personal objectives.
Think about the specific objectives that you want to get from this module (that complement or are in addition to the module learning outcomes) and write them below for your own reference.

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Attachment:- Coaching and Mentoring in Health and Social Care.rar