Coaching the Next Generation. 

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This training is designed to provide professionals in education environments the Coaching tools that they need to have productive coaching conversations. 

How it started.

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I worked for a community college in NM for a few years and was welcomed into a team of some of the first Academic Coaches specifically charged with Coaching students. Not the kind of coaching that is a buzz word for teaching, training, consulting, mentoring, etc. The kind of deep, transformational coaching that changes lives and gets results as people step into the person they want to become. We rallied to start working toward receiving a coaching certification and a group of us became BCC cerfitied through the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE). Since most of the coaches at the college had a background in counseling, this was ideal for them and it worked for me. After coaching more than 1000 students between my work at the college and the university "across the street" I began training small departments that wanted to couple targeted performance indicators to student success. My foray into the training world began with a call from a small southern college in Georgia, looking to make a real difference and lasting change with their students. 

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How it continued to grow.

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In March of 2018, I attended the NACADA Region 8 conference in Portland, OR. It was close to home and I thought that I had something to say about Coaching in institutions of higher education (IHEs). Most of the meaningful time I've spent as a professional has been within Higher Education, and also with performance-based grant-funded programs. Coaching has been instrumental in raising performance of staff and students alike. Without meeting performance indicators, funding sources dry up due to the inability of a program to demonstrate that they are being successful. I was fortunate enough to be recognized with "Best of Region 8" presentation on how to incorporate coaching into whatever approach to academic advisement. I presented at the Annual NACADA Conference in Phoenix, AZ and enjoyed the time I've spent working with various institutions on developing coaching as an approach to working with students to increase their performance. I've found that the number can be as high as a 20% increase in retention and 15% for graduation.

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Why should education professionals attend a Coach training?

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The answer may be that retention rates and graduation rates increase as students connect with coaching on and off-campus. Bettinger and Baker (2014) produced the first published material related to the benefits of coaching and academic success. However, it also builds an inclusive environment where students feel valued and understood. An educational environment that includes the trust, honesty and development/growht focused qualities that form the core of coaching will, without a doubt, produce positive results for retention and completion that all IHEs are trying to accomplish. 

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