Course Information
| Session |
|---|
| Credits | 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs |
|---|---|
| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Coaching as a Leadership Skill
$250.00
Dates: January 6 - February 2Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
Coaching is a valuable leadership skill that can help you focus on employee / team development to improve performance and morale. For those in management positions, coaching facilitates your ability to get to know your employees’ skills and interests and work together to develop strategies to help them reach their professional development goals. For those in other types of leadership positions, such as chairing committees, using a coaching approach can help to build more effective collaboration.
- This course will provide an overview of what coaching entails. Topics will include:
- Background of coaching as a recognized specialty
- Overview of core coaching skills
- Distinctions between coaching, mentoring, and other roles
- Brief overview of coaching models
This course is not a full coach training program, but it will introduce skills for further development, explain how those skills will make you a better leader, and give you greater clarity on what coaching as a leadership skill does and does not entail.
Course Description
Coaching is a valuable leadership skill that can help you focus on employee / team development to improve performance and morale. For those in management positions, coaching facilitates your ability to get to know your employees’ skills and interests and work together to develop strategies to help them reach their professional development goals. For those in other types of leadership positions, such as chairing committees, using a coaching approach can help to build more effective collaboration.
- This course will provide an overview of what coaching entails. Topics will include:
- Background of coaching as a recognized specialty
- Overview of core coaching skills
- Distinctions between coaching, mentoring, and other roles
- Brief overview of coaching models
This course is not a full coach training program, but it will introduce skills for further development, explain how those skills will make you a better leader, and give you greater clarity on what coaching as a leadership skill does and does not entail.
Angela Pashia
Angela Pashia is a leadership and career development coach with a dozen years of experience as an academic librarian. Angela's approach to coaching focuses on partnering with clients to empower them to reach their goals, whether they’re ready to take their career to the next level or feel stuck in their job and want to explore their options beyond libraries. Angela's featured group program is designed to support library leaders in developing a coaching approach to leadership, adapting the professional coaching skills that are most relevant for library leaders. Angela graduated from an ICF-accredited professional coach training program in 2023. As a librarian, Angela focused on using critical pedagogy approaches in teaching critical information literacy, mentoring colleagues, working against structural oppression within libraries, and growing as a collaborative leader. Angela published two co-edited books and several book chapters and articles on these topics. Angela’s latest book, Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice, co-edited with CJ Ivory, was published in 2022. Angela’s first co-edited book (with Jessica Critten), Critical Approaches to Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Courses, was selected as an ACRL Instruction Section, Teaching Methods Committee Selected Resource in 2020. Learn more at https://angelapashia.com/
How to Register
To enroll yourself or other participants in a class, use the “Register” button that follows the description of each course. If the “Register” button does not show up, try loading the page in a different web browser. Contact us if you have technical difficulties using our shopping cart system or would like to pay for an enrollment using another method. On the payment page in the shopping cart system, there is a place to add notes, such as the names and email addresses of participants you wish to enroll. We will contact you to request this information in response to your processed payment if you do not include it in the “notes” field. Prior to the start of the workshop, we will send participants their login instructions.Payment Info
Our shopping cart system allows you to pay with a credit card or with PayPal.Alternatively, if it is an institutional payment, we can arrange to invoice you. Contact us by email, and we can make arrangements to suit your institution's business processes.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.