We’ve all pressed pause on our lives—whether we like it or not. The present is saying: here is the gift of time, how will you make it worth your while, both in your home and on a global scale? If you think it’s hard to ask yourself this question, imagine how hard it might be to kickstart it with your teenager. Here are some coaching techniques that can help.

In Part One, we looked at the Forms of Help Spectrum. Though there is great intelligence here, it becomes even more interesting when combined with the Connection Hierarchy.

Over the last seven years of teaching coaching to educators, we’ve learned that choosing how best to help another does not always come easy. With too little time and so much to do, help can often look like a one-size-fits-all approach consisting of advising and telling.

Every school, organisation, teacher and school leader experiences challenges when they learn and embed coaching. One of the biggest challenges we recently identified is focusing on the small stuff.

Facilitating is an art form. It can feel easy one day and challenging the next. After more than 15+ years of delivering courses and workshops both online and in-person, there are still times when being a facilitator is just plain difficult.

As teachers, parents and friends, exams provides the opportunity to encourage resiliency and the adoption of a growth mindset in the young person. By taking on the role of a coach and using the skill of effective questioning, you will encourage the student to reflect for themselves about how they feel, what the results mean, and what they want to do next.