Help your coaches get in shape!

Becoming a great coach might seem easy but it does require training and practice! Effective coaches help individuals feel good about their work and gain a heightened sense of commitment and ownership. They also enable individuals to master new skills and responsibilities in accordance with their organization's needs.

Get Fit for Coaching is a fast-paced and fun experience that gives participants the opportunity to practice five distinct skills associated with successful coaching and communication between the coach and “coachee”:

1. Building Rapport
2. Observing and Analyzing
3. Questioning and Listening
4. Providing Feedback
5. Facilitating Learning

Get Fit for Coaching is a cross between a game and a training course. It can be used as a stand-alone game to build, refresh, or reinforce coaching skills, or as part of a broader leadership training program. It is suitable for managers, supervisors, team leaders, and anyone who wants to become a more effective 'coach'.

HOW Get Fit for Coaching WORKS

After a brief presentation on the five key coaching skills, teams begin the first round of play, racing against the clock to answer coaching questions correctly, developing a sharper understanding of the five key skills. In round two, participants are asked to respond to everyday coaching situations, earning a 'letter card' for each correct response. The first team to earn a card for each letter in the word 'Coach' wins the game.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Practice and strengthen the five key coaching skills
• Discover how to develop effective coaching relationships and provide a rewarding work environment
• Learn how to improve others' performance and maximize potential through coaching.

Time recommended: 2.5 hours

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• 1 Facilitator Guide
• 4 sets of card decks with individual storage cases (suitable for ~ 16 participants)
• 4 laminated game cards
• 16 Participant Guides
• 120 game chips
• Sturdy tote bag

FACILITATOR GUIDE

• Administrative guidelines
• Theoretical background
• Coaching process model
• Overview of the five key coaching skills
• Experiential learning/training methodology
• Training design options
• Preparation checklist
• Blank training outline
• Sample copy of the participant guide
• CD-ROM (includes overhead transparency masters, which are tear-out pages from the back of the facilitator set that you can copy to create your own overhead materials, and two Microsoft PowerPoint presentations)
• Convenient three-ring binder

PARTICIPANT GUIDE

• Summary of the coaching process model
• Overview of the five key coaching skills
• An introspective coaching exercise
• Action planning

TABLE OF CONTENTS

In Get Fit for Coaching - A Skill Practice Game Facilitator, you'll find:

• Overview and Introduction
• Administering Get Fit for Coaching: A Skill Practice Game
• About the Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
• Experiential Learning Methodology
• Background Information
• Build Rapport
• Observe and Analyze
• Question and Listen
• Provide Feedback
• Facilitate Learning
• Technical Development
• References
• Skills Practice Game At-A-Glance
• Preparation Checklist
• Facilitator Instructions
• Training Design Options
• Alternative Training Configurations
• Blank Training Outline
• Related Materials from HRDQ
• Overhead Transparency Masters: tear-out pages from the back of the facilitator set that you can copy to create your own overhead materials
• Self-Assessment

The Complete Game contains materials for a maximum of sixteen participants or four teams of four people each. All parts except for the participant guides are reusable.