Designing Impactful Learning Style Based Actions_Coaching Skills

Designing Impactful “Learning Style”-Based Actions

Presented by Donna Schilder, MCC

Executive & Mentor Coach

[email protected]

562 434 7822

www.DonnaSchilder.com

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ICF LA

TeleclassObjectives

Overview of the VAK “Learning Styles”How Knowledge of Learning Styles Can Increase Coaching Skill

Helping Clients Identify Their Learning Style(s)

Supporting Deeper Learning through “Learning Style”-Based Actions

“Learning Style”-Based Action Examples

Coaching to “Learning Styles”

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Overview of the VAK Learning Styles*

Visual Auditory Kinesthetic/Tactile

See

Learn through seeing, visualizing, or written language

Hear

Learn by manipulating language

Do

Learn by moving, doing, and touching

*The three VAK Learning Modalities are adapted from Barbe, Swassing, and Milone.


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How Knowledge of Learning Styles Increases Coaching Skill

Establishing Trust and Intimacy: because speaking in the language of your client’s “Learning Style” supports development of intimacy and help you coach to the “who” of the client.

Powerful Questioning: because questions based on your client’s “Learning Style” will naturally be more powerful for them.

Direct Communication: because messages are more likely to be heard by your client when they are communicated in the language of their “Learning Style”.

Creating Awareness: because when you speak in your client’s “Learning Style”, they are better able to hear your message.


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ICF Core Competencies

B. 3. Establishing Trust and Intimacy with the Client

4. Demonstrates respect for client's perceptions, learning style, personal being.

D.9. Designing Actions—Ability to create with the client opportunities for ongoing learning, during coaching and in work/life situations, and for taking new actions that will most effectively lead to agreed-upon coaching results.

1. Brainstorms and assists the client to define actions that will enable the client to demonstrate, practice, and deepen new learning.3. Engages the client to explore alternative ideas & solutions . . .4. Promotes active experimentation and self-discovery, where the client applies what has been discussed and learned . . .©2015 Glacier Point Solutions, Inc. ~ Donna Schilder, MCC, Executive & Mentor Coach ~ www.DonnaSchilder.com ~ [email protected] ~ (562)434-7822

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Professional Certified Coach (PCC) Markers

6: Powerful Questioning1. Coach’s questions use the client’s language and elements of the client’s learning style and frame of reference.

MCC Minimum Skills Requirements

3. Establishing Trust and Intimacy with the Client

The MCC level coach demonstrates a complete confidence in self, the coaching process, the client, and the client’s perceptions, learning style, and personal being. . . .©2015 Glacier Point Solutions, Inc. ~ Donna Schilder, MCC, Executive & Mentor Coach ~ www.DonnaSchilder.com ~ [email protected] ~ (562)434-7822

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7. Powerful Questioning

. . .The coach makes frequent and full use of the client’s language and learning style to craft questions and the questions clearly provide a space for a client to use and expand their own style of thinking, learning, and creating. . . .

8. Creating Awareness

. . At an MCC level, the coach’s way of being is consistently curious, the coach is willing to not know, and to let the exploration evolve based on the client’s thinking, learning, and creating, and the coach appears as much an explorer as the client. The coach has not concluded what awareness should be in any manner, nor does the coach force awareness in any manner. The use of the client’s greatness, strengths, intuition, and learning style is fully invited and welcomed. . . .


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9. Designing Actions

. . . At the MCC level, the coach and client design actions that fit the client’s goals, learning style and creating methods, where the client is, what the client wants, the client’s measures of accomplishment, and that reflect the pace of wanted or necessary movement designated by the client. The coach allows actions to include thinking, creating, doing, and being. . . .


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VAK Learning Style Tests

http://www.westwood.edu/admissions/high-school-students/getting-ready-for-college/study-aids/vak-learning-styles

http://webshares.northseattle.edu/fam180/topics/learnstyle/learnstl.htm










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Visual

Approx. 60%

Speech pattern: I “see”

May like to readLikes pictures, colors, art, fashionDreams vividly or in color

Auditory

Approx. 20% Speech pattern: I “hear”

Likes to read aloudLikes musicMoves lips when readingGood at explaining

Kinesthetic

Approx. 20%

Speech pattern: I “feel”

Likes to build thingsLikes adventure booksFidgetsGood at sports


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Supporting Deeper Learning thru “Learning Style”-Based Actions

Actions better align with “who” of the client

In my experience, clients are: More passionate about actions that align with their learning preferences

More likely to do them


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Visual Learning Techniques

Visual - Linguistic• Reading • Creating a word map• Posting a word, in color, where they will

see it every day• Using “Post It” Notes to arrange ideas

on a board• Visualizing or imagining• Drawing a picture• Posting a picture where they will see it

every day• Creating a visual metaphor• Uploading pictures that represent an

idea on an electronic picture frame©2015 Glacier Point Solutions, Inc. ~ Donna Schilder, MCC, Executive & Mentor Coach ~ www.DonnaSchilder.com ~ [email protected] ~ (562)434-7822

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Auditory Learning Techniques

Auditory• Being asked questions• Presenting information orally• Listening to a podcast• Listening to a lecture

• Journaling


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Kinesthetic Learning Techniques

Kinesthetic• Walking or running while repeating or

listening to information• Finding an object that represents a

concept• Role playing or acting something out• Doing experiments• Building a model • Tracing something in the sand• Drawing a picture

• Journaling


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Additional Benefits of Helping Clients Understand Learning Style Theory

May create greater self-awareness Leadership Growth

May create greater skill at communication, coaching, & training

May create greater understanding of their: Staff Colleagues Boss


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Summary

VAK “Learning Styles”: *Visual * Auditory * Kinesthetic

How to Help Clients Identify Their Learning Style(s)

How to Support Deeper Learning through “Learning Style”-Based Actions

How to Coach to “Learning Style”


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