Key Characteristics
Key Elements of Coaching
Being a Big Five Practitioner
5 Pillars of Behavioural Therapy
Education and Psychology
100

Agreement by the coach and coachee on the actions they will take between visits

What is Joint Plan?

100

“Not telling people what to do, but giving them a chance to examine what they are doing in light of their intentions” describes this element.

What is Nondirective?

100

A coach who is sociable, friendly, talkative, outgoing, and warm.

What is Extroverted?

100

Teaching skills through play makes use of this type of motivation

What is Intrinsic Motivation?

100

According to Jakk Panksepp this activity “is a central part of neurological growth and development – one important way that children build complex, skilled, responsive, socially adept and cognitively flexible brains”  

What is Play?

200

Spontaneous or planned events that occur within the context of a real life situation that provide the coachee with opportunities to practice, refine, or analyze new or existing skills.  

What is Action or Practice?

200

 Coaching is a partnership and a reciprocal process in which both the coach and the coachee bring knowledge and abilities to the relationship describes this element.

 What is Collaboration?

200

A coach who is Calm, at ease, relaxed, secure, trustworthy and even-tempered demonstrates this skill.

Emotional Stability

200

This pillar is a strengths-based framework grounded in an understanding of and responsiveness to the impact of trauma. It emphasizes physical, psychological, and emotional safety for everyone, and creates opportunities for survivors to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment.  

What is Trauma Informed Practice?

200

What term did Lev Vygotsky use to describe the process by which a teacher provides support to a student in order to help them learn a new concept or skill that is just beyond their current level of understanding?

What is scaffolding?

300

Examination of Another persons actions or practices that a coachee can use to develop new skills, strategies or ideas.

What is Observation?

300

The act of coaching includes observations and actions in current situations related to the coaching goals where solutions can be tried demonstrates this element.

What is Context Driven?

300

A coach who is responsible, punctual, well organized, reliable, dependable, predictable, hardworking and careful

 What is Conscientious?

300

The following are some, but not all categories of this cognitive management system of the brain; Task Initiation, Sustained Attention, Impulse Control, Flexibility and Working Memory.

What is Executive Functioning?

300

According to Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, children progress through these four stages of mental development, in order.

What are the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stages?

400

Information provided by the coach that is based on his or her direct observations of the coachee, or actions reported by the coachee.

What is Feedback?

400

Coaching builds the knowledge, Skills and abilities of the coachee to be able to function without the coaches ongoing support describes this element.

What is Capacity Building?

400

A coach who is objective, flexible, adaptable, innovative, independent, open minded and imaginative.

Openness to Experience?

400

This is a method that allows a child to practice developing language skills in naturally occurring adult-child interactions.

What is incidental teaching?

400

This term describes a child's understanding of other people's mental states, including beliefs, desires, and emotions

What is Theory of Mind?

500

Analysis of existing strategies that a coachee can use to determine whether the strategies are consistent with evidence based practices

What is Reflection?

500

Coaching is focused on determining the present and creating the future rather then on analyzing the past describes this element.

What is Solution Focused?

500

 A coach who is courteous, flexible, trusting, generous, selfless, respectful and acquiescent are words used to describe this type of practitioner.

 What is Agreeable?

500

This therapy, developed in the 1960s by Aaron and Judith Beck, operates under the belief that individuals can change their core beliefs about themselves by mindfully examining how situations impact their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in a circular process.

What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)?

500

This psychologist developed the theory of psychosocial development, which included eight stages of human development, each characterized by a unique psychosocial crisis, and emphasized the importance of social interactions and relationships in shaping personality and identity.

Who is Erik Erikson?