Coaching Tips for Advisers: Engaging Youth Effectively

Discover the importance of coaching for advisers in mentoring youth, with insights on what coaching entails and how to effectively engage young individuals. Learn the 3 key steps to successful coaching: engaging youth where they are, communicating expectations clearly, and understanding different personality types. Explore scenarios to understand how to handle situations as an adviser, ensuring positive development and growth among youth.

• Coaching Tips
• Advisers
• Engaging Youth
• Mentoring
• Personality Types

seymour Follow

Uploaded on Jul 30, 2024 | 1 Views

Download Presentation

Please find below an Image/Link to download the presentation.

The content on the website is provided AS IS for your information and personal use only. It may not be sold, licensed, or shared on other websites without obtaining consent from the author. Download presentation by click this link. If you encounter any issues during the download, it is possible that the publisher has removed the file from their server.

Presentation Transcript

1. Skills for Advisers: Coaching Your Youth

2. What is a Coach? Coach is Mentoring is Adviser is

3. Coaching is task oriented Coaching is short term Coaching is performance driven SO HOW DO I COACH?

4. 3 Steps to Coaching: 1. Engage the Youth Where They Are 2. Communicate Expectations and Needs Clearly 3. What not to do

5. 1. Engage Youth Where They Are Self-Contained Indirect Analytical Driver Direct Amiable Expressive Open

6. Analytical Driver Indirect and self-contained Focus on logic Need all facts before they will make a decision [aka Planner] Direct and self-contained Task and results oriented Takes charge and makes quick decisions [aka Director] Amiable Expressive Open and indirect Cares deeply about other people and their feelings Needs to feel trust and support to make a decision [aka Agreeable Friend] Open and direct Important to share ideas and enthusiasm Wants group excitement to encourage their decision [aka Socializer]

7. 2. Communicate Expectations and Needs Clearly Try these phrases: What do you need from me? Have you thought about?

8. What do you do as a coach? Situation 1: Nolan is your Lodge Chief. He is an experienced leader and has built a strong team of youth leaders around him. Currently he is running the LEC meeting but it goes on and on as one of the advisers keeps adding his two cents about every item on the agenda. You can tell Nolan is getting irritated.

9. What do you do as a coach? Situation 2: Zander just became a brotherhood member of the Order of the Arrow. He is excited about hanging out with his new friends more, so decided to run for Chapter Chief. He does not really know much about what that means or what he is supposed to do.

10. 3. What NOT To Do Direct the youth what to do rather than letting them fail Make commitments you cannot keep Take responsibility for their problem Criticize your youth because they are not doing it how you did it back in your day

11. Final Word: Responsibility TO Vs Responsibility FOR

12. For Training Resources and More Information Visit: http://training.oa-bsa.org/noac2015