Event Details

Why learn coaching skills?

As research managers, a key aspect of your role is providing expert consultancy to researchers.  A coaching approach is a highly effective way to have a productive conversation and provide support to your academic ‘clients’.  Using coaching techniques, will better enable you to:

• Ask excellent questions to evaluate proposals, and to gather the most impactful information about the research and research team,
• Provide coaching to enable new and existing research teams to work more effectively together and plan effective working practices.
• Help researchers to fully explore and think through all aspects of their grant applications.
• Support researchers in their preparation for panel interviews
• Better understand the needs of researchers so that you can be more targeted in how you work with them.
• Gauge the appropriate level of support and challenge that they need in order to become more self-sufficient in managing their applications, grants and collaborations.

The workshop:

Target audience: Research managers supporting the development of grant applications, impact activities and post-award activities and evaluation.

Objectives:

A one-day practical and highly interactive training session, that will:

• Equip you with relevant applicable coaching theory
• Enable you to practise and develop coaching skills in a safe environment
• Ensure you are confident to use the knowledge and skills in your work to complete successful coaching based conversations

Programme:

Morning:

Setting up for a successful conversation

• What is a conversation?
• Communication spectrum
• What coaching is and isn’t
• Benefits of coaching

The basics of coaching:

• Building relationships and rapport
• Effective questioning using a simple coaching model
• Deep listening

Afternoon:

Gaining confidence in the coaching model

• Practice and review

Choosing and applying different tools

• Introduction to a selection of coaching tools
• Planning what to use in different scenarios to support researchers

Action planning

• How and when will you start to use your new coaching skills?