TeamSTEPPS® Fundamentals: Module 9

Coaching Workshop: Classroom Slides

TeamSTEPPS is a teamwork system developed jointly by the Department of Defense (DoD)and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to improve institutional collaboration and communication relating to patient safety.

TeamSTEPPS® Fundamentals: Module 9

Coaching Workshop: Classroom Slides

Graphic of one penguin standing on the shoulders of another to look over an obstacle.

Slides:

Slide 1: Coaching Workshop
Slide 2: Objectives
Slide 3: Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes (KSAs)
Slide 4: The Role of Each Team Member is to...
Slide 5: Coaching
Slide 6: The Role of the Coach is to...
Slide 7: Characteristics of an Effective Coach
Slide 8: Coaching Competencies
Slide 9: The Coach as Motivator
Slide 10: Coaches Provide Feedback That Is...
Slide 11: Feedback Should Be...
Slide 12: Exercise: Coaching Self-Assessment
Slide 13: Coaching Tips
Slide 14: The Results of Good Coaching Are...
Slide 15: Exercise: Coaching
Slide 16: Exercise: Coaching (continued)
Slide 17: How To Implement a Coaching Strategy
Slide 18: Teamwork Actions


Slide 1: Coaching Workshop

"A good coach will make the players see what they can be rather than what they are."
— Ara Parasheghian

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Slide 2: Objectives

  • State how team members' knowledge, skills, and attitudes are developed.
  • Describe the characteristics of an effective coach.
  • Assess coaching strengths and areas for improvement.
  • Identify the results of good coaching.
  • Demonstrate and evaluate coaching competencies.
  • Describe how to implement a coaching strategy.

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Slide 3: Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes (KSAs)

Team member KSAs are developed through—

  • A clear understanding of team members' roles.
  • Clearly defined tasks and responsibilities.
  • A high level of commitment and a firm belief in accomplishment of the task/responsibility.
  • A good understanding of the culture and norms.

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Slide 4: The Role of Each Team Member is to...

  • Apply specific teamwork skills to accomplish and fulfill the responsibilities and tasks.
  • Communicate pertinent information to teammates and the patient/family efficiently and effectively.
  • Demonstrate desired behaviors and skills.
  • Possess the attitudes necessary to develop mutual trust and team orientation.
  • Request clarification or additional information as needed.
  • Make adjustments to behaviors based on feedback.

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Slide 5: Coaching

Providing guidance, feedback, and direction to ensure successful performance.

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Slide 6: The Role of the Coach is to...

  • Establish and clarify goals of the session.
  • Develop a plan to accomplish the tasks and responsibilities.
  • Ensure team members have a clear definition and understanding of their roles and responsibilities.
  • Align expectations with members of the team.
  • Advise, instruct, and demonstrate desired teamwork behaviors and skills.
  • Encourage and provide feedback for improvement.
  • Acknowledge and reinforce desired behaviors when observed.

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Slide 7: Characteristics of an Effective Coach

  • Competence
  • Influence
  • Interpersonal Style
  • Effective Feedback

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Slide 8: Coaching Competencies

Communication

Communicating Instructions
Providing Feedback
Listening for Understanding

Relationships

Building Rapport and Trust
Motivating Others
Working w/Personal Issues
Confronting Difficult Situations

Performance Improvement

Setting Performance Goals
Rewarding Improvement
Dealing with Failure
Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses

Execution

Responding to Requests
Following Through

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Slide 9: The Coach as Motivator

  • Help team members see the bridge between:
    • What they value and desire and...
    • The task or role for which they are responsible.
  • Provide specific, timely observations of performance and effectiveness.
  • Encourage belief in team members' abilities to succeed.
  • Validate current levels of accomplishment while advocating greater achievement.
  • Identify potential challenges, pitfalls, and unforeseen consequences.

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Slide 10: Coaches Provide Feedback That Is...

  • Descriptive and nonevaluative.
  • Meant to improve skills by making team members aware of what was right or wrong about their task performance.
  • Considered a development tool used to enhance task performance.
  • Two-way, that is, it allows team members the opportunity to interact and ask questions.

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Slide 11: Feedback Should Be...

Well-Intentioned:

  • Feedback gives information, not advice.
  • Effective feedback is meant to help the recipient-it is a gift.
  • It should not be used to "get something off of your chest".
  • Feedback will not fix what you believe is wrong with another person.

Nonjudgmental:

  • Do not use terms like "good" or "bad".
  • The goal of feedback is to help someone understand and accept the effects of his or her behavior on others.
    • The team member's decision to change behavior is not part of the feedback process.

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Slide 12: Exercise: Coaching Self-Assessment

Complete a coaching self-assessment form to identify coaching strengths and areas for improvement.

Exercise icon: Penguin on a stationary exercise bicycle.

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Slide 13: Coaching Tips

Do...

  • Actively monitor and assess team performance.
  • Establish performance goals and expectations.
  • Acknowledge desired teamwork behaviors and skills through feedback.
  • Coach by example; be a good mentor.

Do not...

  • Coach from a distance.
  • Coach only to problem-solve.
  • Lecture instead of coach.

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Slide 14: The Results of Good Coaching Are...

  • Defined and understood goals.
  • Aligned expectations between the team leader and team members.
  • Transfer of knowledge on a "just-in-time" basis.
  • Increased individual motivation and morale.
  • A more adaptive and reactive team.
  • Improved team performance and safer patient care.

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Slide 15: Exercise: Coaching

  • Split into groups of three.
  • Review the scenarios and Coaching Feedback Form (CFF).
  • Each participant takes a turn playing the coach, team member, and observer.
  • The coach provides feedback to the team member in the scenario.
  • The team member role plays the scenario.
  • The observer completes the CFF and then shares with the groups.

Exercise icon: Penguin on a stationary exercise bicycle.

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Slide 16: Exercise: Coaching (continued)

Two drawings of penguin health professionals with a penguin doctor mentoring two other penguins.

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Slide 17: How To Implement a Coaching Strategy

  • Present coaching concept to leadership.
  • Select coaches based on the characteristics and competencies of an effective coach.
  • Conduct a session on coaching for the appointed coaches.
  • Match coaches with team members.
  • Leverage current performance tools or create new tools to help coaches sustain a coaching environment.

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Slide 18: Teamwork Actions

  • Perform as a leader and a coach of other team members.
  • Provide well-intentioned, nonjudgmental feedback.
  • Analyze results of your coaching to look for ways to continually improve team performance.
  • Ensure team members are performing their roles as appropriate.
  • Implement a coaching strategy.

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Current as of November 2008
Internet Citation: TeamSTEPPS® Fundamentals: Module 9: Coaching Workshop: Classroom Slides. November 2008. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/teamstepps/instructor/fundamentals/module9/slcoaching.html