Reflection on Peer Coaching - The Session Tenth

Peer Coaching with Mrs. Faiza Ikeda

April 09, 2009, I had my tenth peer coaching with my peer coach, Miss Faiza. Here is the summary from my coach and I would like to share it with you.

Wins for this last week:

~ The biggest win was the creating of my coaching model, draft.
~ Created 9 passion cards and put some of them up (at work and at home, in the car...)
~ Kept my exercise routine - running 3 times a week, 3km each run

We discussed what coaching means to me. Thanks to the Passion Game I felt that I have more clarity now around this. Coaching is one of my skills and it helps me reach what I want in my life.

Besides being a coach, I also want to be a teacher and facilitator (team building for example).


We also looked at the Wheel of Life again and had me grade my levels of satisfaction for each area in this moment. It seems like I have a pretty smooth ride.


After this we did something fun, something new and daring:
Faiza offered me a coaching challenge of having a laser (5 min.) coaching session to coach her.
I went for it

The powerful questions I used as the coach:

~ What was the reason (What made you) you started thinking about working with this partner in the first place?

...
So it originally sounded like a good combination and what you are concerned about is your partner's commitment.

~ Do you have any ways, any criteria to test your partner's commitment?...


What I noticed in this session about your coaching competencies:

- You listened to me deeply and without interrupting

- You asked me good, powerful coaching questions

- You were fully present in our session

- You helped me create awareness

- You helped me design an action

For a list of all coaching competencies go to:

http://www.coachfederation.org/research%2Deducation/icf%2Dcredentials/core%2Dcompetencies/


What I acknowledged myself for in this session:

~ I really enjoyed the laser session
~ I noticed the improvement in my Wheel of Life.
~ I was grateful for the coach using the right pace with me

My homeplay for the next week:

~ keep playing the Passion Game by taking the next step - Have fun with the Markers!

~ think about practicing more coaching

Thank you, my dear coach, Miss Faiza!