Coaching for growth

12 May 2025 - 13 May 2025
(2 x 8h)
campus Diepenbeek

Content

This is a two-day workshop on coaching by Dr Robin Lefèbvre (Grow2Excel).

Why?

When do you learn the most? When someone tells you the solution or when someone helps you find your own solution. How can you help your students or researchers to help themselves? When you coach someone, it is with the intent to grow that person so they are more empowered to become independent. This course aims to grow your personal toolset with a non-directive coaching style to grow your people. Furthermore, the differences between leading, managing, coaching and mentoring are often mixed and unclear regarding the right approach. Coaching is not merely a technique to be wheeled out and rigidly applied in certain prescribed circumstances. It is a way of managing, a way of treating people, a way of thinking, a way of being.

How?

As a leader of others, you have two key tasks: delivering the research/business group's results and growing your researchers/students to become more effective in providing the results. Growing others can be done via various directive and non-directive management/coaching techniques. One of the most widely used coaching tools is the t-GROW (topic—goal—reality—options—what) model. T-GROW is a simple and powerful framework for structuring and conducting coaching sessions that produce immediate results.

Learning outcomes

After having attended this training, participants will be able to...

  • experience different coaching tools,
  • use the non-directive (T-GROW) approach to coaching,
  • build trust to facilitate high performance in individuals.

Competences

An important part of preparing for any further professional step is becoming (more) aware of the competences you have developed and/or want to develop. In the current workshop, the following competences from the UHasselt competency overview are actively dealt with:

  • interpersonal competences:
    • coaching
    • leadership
  • personal effectiveness:
    • self-development

Practicalities

For whom?

  • Ideally, participants are young postdocs or senior PhD students with coaching responsibility. However, it is never too late to start coaching for growth.
  • 15 places available

When and where?

  • 2 days:
    • May 12, 2025 - 09:00 - 17:00 - campus Diepenbeek, building D, room A3
    • May 13, 2025 - 09:00 - 17:00 - campus Diepenbeek, building D, room C24

Preparation?

Before the training, participants will be asked to submit their training expectations to be addressed during the session. They will also be encouraged to schedule one-on-one time with their supervisor to discuss their learning expectations beforehand and review the outcomes afterward. Additionally, they will be asked to identify three topics where they would benefit from coaching, ensuring a tailored approach to their development.

Registration?

  • Register here from February 6 until April 21, 2025.
  • Please register only if you can attend both days.
  • As places are limited, registering does not automatically imply that you will be able to participate. You will be notified by email after the registration deadline has passed.
  • Please cancel your registration at least one week in advance in case you cannot make it (cf. cancellation & no-show policy).

Acknowledged as?

  • DS BSH: category 'career management & personal development' - workshop on personal development
  • DS HLS: category 'transferable skills' - compulsory elective course
  • DS ST: category 'career & personal development' - course on personal development

What others say

Coaching for growth is a hands-on practical workshop everyone, with aspirations to lead, teach, mentor and coach with impact, must attend. Not only does it awaken your spirit to be a better coach, but it also equips you with the toolkit to achieve this.
(participant in 2023)
Very interesting workshop where you learn the difference between managers, trainers, mentors and coaches. It provides you with several tools to implement a coaching style and the 'rehearsal' sessions are very helpful to practice these.
(participant in 2023)
Robin is an excellent coach, who guides you throughout a course which enlightens you to become a more knowledgeable coach yourself.
(participant in 2023)
Very intensive course! Have already used the lessons learned in my team. Also, a great way to meet PhD students from other faculties and really connect with them.
(participant in 2023)
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