Session 3: How do you build effective learning relationships?
Introduction
This session is about building relationships that promote learning and development. Watch as Stuart Armstrong explains more.
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STUART ARMSTRONG
In coaching we're working with people. And whenever we're working with people, one of the things that we really need to be able to do is to build relationships and to build trust and rapport. Those things are really important if we're going to create a really great connection and then help those individuals with providing a learning experience that's going to help them on a journey of change.
Now, in this section, we're really going to explore that and look at the different techniques that we can use to help people to build trust and build rapport, particularly when we're in that role of supporting coaches and helping coaches.
And have a look out for a really interesting video where you'll see a motor racing pit crew practicing their changeovers in the pits. Now, it's really interesting to look at the relationships and observe what you see. Now, it features Chris Hoy, the Olympic cycling champion, having a go at motor racing, moving away from cycling. So it's really interesting to see all the different dynamics.
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As Stuart explained, in coaching we work with people and this means being able to build trust and rapport with them. In this session you’ll explore different models and perspectives that help you to understand how to nurture effective learning relationships. You will see how understanding the following inform your knowledge about the development of effective learning relationships:
- humanist-based counselling theory
- a lecturer’s attempts to build rapport with over a hundred new students
- the strategies adopted by a coach developer, and
- teacher–mentor relationships in a school.
By the end of this session, you should be able to:
- understand the basis of effective coach–coach developer learning relationships
- know how to initiate and continue to build rapport with coaches
- appreciate how you can strike an appropriate balance between challenging coaches to improve their practice and supporting them through this process
- appreciate the value of learning from mistakes and failure.