Awakening the Little Genius in You


The Personal Excellence Program related to “Performance Coaching” is developed to help students to perform at the peak of their abilities, it involves drawing out their strengths, helping them to bypass personal barriers and limits in order to achieve their personal bests, and facilitating them to function more effectively through careful observation and feedback.

Parents act as good guides and caretakers to their children providing them a safe and supportive environment. They attend to the external context making sure that what is needed is available, and that there are no unnecessary distractions or interferences from the outside. Here we mean basic needs are provided to ensure the child’s physical and mental health.
 
The next set of parents the child is exposed are the teachers in their lives. Teaching relates to helping a person develop cognitive skills and capabilities. The goal of a teacher is generally to increase competencies and “thinking abilities” relevant to an area of learning. A teacher helps students to develop new strategies for thinking and acting mostly related to academic. The emphasis of teaching is more on new learning than on refining one’s previous performance.

What is Coaching ?

Coaching emphasises generative change, concentrating on defining and achieving specific goals. Coaching Methodology are outcome-oriented rather than problem -oriented. They tend to be highly solution focused, promoting the development of new strategies for thinking and acting. Problem solving, or remedial change, is more associated with counselling and therapy. 

Coaching is more focused at a behavioural level, referring to the process of helping the student to achieve or improve a particular behavioural performance. Effective behavioural performance involves the ability to sense and coordinate your body’s actions within a particular external environment. Which simply means what should be the action where and when in the particular environment. Behaviours are the product of the Psychomotor system, a deeper level of neurology than the sense organs we use to perceive our environment. The psychomotor system coordinates our physical actions and conscious movements. Behavioural factors are the particular action steps taken in order to reach success. They encompass what specifically, must be done or accomplished in order to succeed.

What is the role of a Coach ?

There are various levels involved in the process of Coaching and Mentoring; these involve the Coach taking a Role of a Performance Coach, Guide, Teacher and Mentor.  

Performance Coaching is primarily derived from the sports training model, promoting conscious awareness of resources and abilities, and the development of conscious competence. It involves
  • Establishing Goals and Outcomes is a primary tool of effective performance coaching. Clear Goals provide the direction and focus for all coaching activities. 
  • Involves careful observations, giving them tips and guidance about how to improve in specific contexts and situations, and helping them gain fuller access to their own internal resources.
  • Providing positive feedback and encouragement, through explicit messages directed towards both task and relationship, in an effective way to help students stretch and develop behavioural flexibility to more effectively reach desired outcomes.
  • Helping the students to be become more aware of physical and mental factors that produce effective behaviour and to apply those success factors more consciously to produce effective results in various contexts. Eg. strengths in one area anchored and displayed in another in context of academics , sports, other skills.
Advanced Coaching involves teaching to develop capabilities, our cognitive capabilities relate to the mental maps, plans or strategies that guide us to perform specific behaviour. At the level of capability we are able to select, alter and adapt a class of behaviours to wider set of external situations. Neurologically, developing capabilities is a function of higher level processing in the cortex (grey matter) of the brain. It is in the cortex where the sensory information is represented in the form of mental maps, associated with other representations or pieced together in imagination. They direct how actions are selected and monitored and mastered for successful outcomes. The coaching process involves
  • Teaching the “Inner Game” for Performance i.e success in any area of performance involves using your mind as well as your body, Preparing yourself mentally to perform well is the essence of your “inner game”. The “outer game” has to do with physical skills where as your “inner game” is your mental abilities.
  • Helping them develop a change in the mental approach to what they are doing,this includes your attitudes, confidence in yourself, your ability to concentrate effectively, deal with mistakes and pressure and so on.
  • Helping you to coordinate your “inner game” and “outer game” ; when both these areas are working together actions flow with a kind of effortless excellence that is called, “ playing in the zone”.
These processes help the students to develop their inner and outer game required to accomplish the goals, by building a set of capabilities, mapping their vision with their inherent latent strengths and potential thus empowering them to achieve peak performance. The Results :
  • A feeling of confidence and the absence of anxiety and self-doubt.
  • Lack of fear of failure about achieving your goals
  • Focus on Performing to the best of their abilities
  • Performance comes without effort and without having to think about it, naturally.
The techniques and approaches developed in our coaching programs are derived largely from the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). The skills and tools of NLP are uniquely suited for promoting effecting coaching. NLP’s focus on well formed outcomes, step by step processes to promote excellence, managing internal states, identifying moments of excellence, mapping across resources and providing high quality feedback makes it one of the most important and powerful tools for Coaching at various levels.

Excerpts : Dilts R :- Strategies of Genius Vol I, From Coach to Awakener, Roots of NLP:A reference guide to technology of NLP.

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