What is Coaching?
"A unique personal and professional experience. All public health and development managers need a coach and need to become coaches for their staff." Dr. Elvira Beracochea
"Coaching is the process of equipping people with the tools, knowledge and opportunities they need to develop themselves and become more effective starting NOW!" (Excerpt from MIDEGO’s Coaching Manual)
MIDEGO's Coaching PLUS Approach:
How to Reach the Millennium Development Goals
1% at a time!
Download our Coaching for Success Program Calendar.
At MIDEGO, coaching in the 7-Day MPH Program or our other programs is to help others uncover their unique public health mission and succeed every day, 1% at a time. Just like in sports coaches help athletes and teams reach a new performance standard, coaching in public health and development makes the difference between just playing the "MDG game" and actually reaching the 2015 targets.
Coaching is a carefully designed series of conversations/engagements between a client and a coach for the purpose of bringing about a change in the client's behavior leading to a desirable outcome, whether it be the solution of a business or service delivery problem or the adoption of a more healthy and rewarding lifestyle. In short, coaching is the "midwife of change." The coach helps the client change and "deliver" a desired result. The result, then, "belongs" to the client, not the coach. Change means not only new learning but also internalizing that learning into new behaviors and applying what is learned and getting tangible results.
At MIDEGO we have adapted the techniques of coaching to more traditional forms of distance learning such as classes and seminars over the Internet to provide an improved learning experience. We call this approach Coaching PLUS because it is a whole new Personal Learning and Understanding System that enables the coachee to gain deep insights into the training material - a guided case study - while adapting the material to his/her own particular circumstances and taking action every day.
What does a Coach do in public health?
The coach through a series of powerful questions and observations guides the coachee to an understanding of the carefully planned skills being taught in each part of the course, while the coachee simultaneously applies these skills to his/her own public health project or program. This combination of coaching and instruction provides a more powerful and unique learning experience, a form of carefully planned and guided instruction with a coach to keep you on track every step of the way. That is the PLUS! We support our coachees until they reach their goals
Coaching PLUS provides the one-on-one experience of traditional coaching as each coachee works with his/her coach throughout the course. The coach and coachee develop a trusting and supportive relationship whose impact extends beyond the formal course work; each coachee is encouraged to build on their learning experience and apply their newly acquired skills to achieve a series of success milestones or awards after the formal course work is complete.
At the start, the coach takes on the role of mentor and facilitator guiding and encouraging the client at each step of the process, while rapidly moving to the coaching role of asking carefully planned questions to health the coachee find the answer within! The process has been carefully streamlined to allow rapid scale up. The relationships formed through MIDEGO's unique process often continue for many years and forms part of the knowledge infrastructure of the coachee and the public health organization in which he or she works. Sometimes the coachee decides to become a coach and is trained and certified by MIDEGO to coach others using MIDEGO's programs. Whether they go on to become coaches or not, all our clients become lifelong friends, whose success makes us proud every day!
Who needs a Coach?
Coaching is recommended for:
When do I need a Coach?
Our clients usually have something they want to improve or change. For example below are some of the times when a coach can help you get the results you want faster. You will need a coach when you want to:
Let us know what your needs are or what you would like to change. MIDEGO offers individual coaching services and our "Coaching for Success Program Series." For more information on the programs MIDEGO offers, download our Coaching for Success Program Calendar or write to info@midego.com
