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Doing No Harm: Perceptions of Peer Coach Training at a State College

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2014
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Drawing from the wildly successful use of the executive coaching model in the private sector, this session will describe how one public institution created their own coaching program, and equipped not faculty or administration, but rather students to coach each other. This study explored the motivation of the coaches to devote their time to this effort without financial reward or recognition. The presenter designed, proposed, promoted, and instituted s2s Coaching. The purpose of this case study was to explore the perspective of student coaches in the s2s Coaching program at Palm Beach State College following completion of training in the spring term of 2013. An additional research question was to assess the coaches’ perspective of the coach training and their motivation or interest in becoming a student coach. Lastly, the recommendations of the coaches for future coach training sessions are assessed. Coaches were interviewed and document review was included in the methodology. Among the findings that emerged was the discomfort that the coaches felt in maintaining a professional or institutional role while delving into potentially personal matters, which in their normal discourse would make them a friend. This fuzzy line between coach and friend engendered discussion and recommendations for future training and discussion of this topic with the other coaches. The findings are revealed by a discussion of these categories.
Title: Doing No Harm: Perceptions of Peer Coach Training at a State College.
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Name(s): Sullivan, Jeannette S.
Maslin-Ostrowski, Patricia
Floyd, Deborah L.
Graduate College
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Abstract
Date Created: 2014
Date Issued: 2014
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 1 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Drawing from the wildly successful use of the executive coaching model in the private sector, this session will describe how one public institution created their own coaching program, and equipped not faculty or administration, but rather students to coach each other. This study explored the motivation of the coaches to devote their time to this effort without financial reward or recognition. The presenter designed, proposed, promoted, and instituted s2s Coaching. The purpose of this case study was to explore the perspective of student coaches in the s2s Coaching program at Palm Beach State College following completion of training in the spring term of 2013. An additional research question was to assess the coaches’ perspective of the coach training and their motivation or interest in becoming a student coach. Lastly, the recommendations of the coaches for future coach training sessions are assessed. Coaches were interviewed and document review was included in the methodology. Among the findings that emerged was the discomfort that the coaches felt in maintaining a professional or institutional role while delving into potentially personal matters, which in their normal discourse would make them a friend. This fuzzy line between coach and friend engendered discussion and recommendations for future training and discussion of this topic with the other coaches. The findings are revealed by a discussion of these categories.
Identifier: FA00005854 (IID)
Collection: FAU Student Research Digital Collection
Note(s): The Fifth Annual Graduate Research Day was organized by Florida Atlantic University’s Graduate Student Association. Graduate students from FAU Colleges present abstracts of original research and posters in a competition for monetary prizes, awards, and recognition
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