The second workshop of a three-part series workshop of the Professional Development Series for Alumni Mentors, ‘Coaching: Helping Me, Helping You’ took place on 1st November. Ms Ruth Chiang, Head of Corporate & Community Alignment at SMU's Centre for Management Practice, started off the session with a quick recap of the first workshop on ‘Managing Self and Others’.
Helming the 3-hour session together was the discussion of the G.R.O.W model of Grow-Reality-Obstacles/Options-Way Forward. Ruth took the class through the differences between Coaching, Mentoring, Training and Counselling, allowing themselves to be challenged in role-playing scenarios and group work. The participants also learnt about the ‘Four Levels of Listening’. Beyond listening to oneself, a coach embraces open-mindedness, open-heartedness and open-willingness.
Amongst varying definitions and quotes of coaching shared at the evening, alumni mentors would have found that by Whitmore (2003) most impressionable, ‘unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them’.
Details of the third and final workshop in the Professional Development Series for Alumni Mentors:
Part 3: Work Life Balance - Myth or Reality?
(12 January 2017, Thursday, 6.30 - 9.30 pm, Function Room 6.1, SMU Administration Building)
For queries, contact jeaninechen@smu.edu.sg