Basic Courses

This introductory course is a prerequisite for all our more advanced courses.

This fast-paced, interactive course will discuss the evidence that points to how coaching enhances performance and, in clinical settings, averts burnout.  The course will provide you with key tools and processes that support your incorporating coaching in your existing leadership, mentoring, and educational practices.  

After participation in this course, you will start to see notable differences when applying specific coaching skills to your repertoire: in the quality of conversation with others, both in the level of engagement by them and their continued motivation to achieve.

Learning Objectives:

To arm you with foundational coaching skills to increase the impact of your conversations in your day-to-day work. By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain the difference between coaching, mentoring, & advising

• Describe how to safeguard the coach/coachee partnership

• Discuss key elements of a coaching conversation: content & process

• Explore examples of coaching tools

• Prepare for threats, including implicit bias & imposter syndrome

• Consider opportunities to integrate scale-up coaching in your program

Course Format: 

One 4-hour workshop (occasionally split into two 2-hour sessions)

The sessions are held via zoom.  Registration is now open HERE 

Course sessions (Fall 2023 - Summer 2024):

• COACHME 101 
  June 3, 2024; 9:00am-1:00pm