What is Peer Coaching?

Confidential

Mutually beneficial

Relationship

1. Formalize structures: Meet at scheduled intervals for a specific period of time
2. Work through explicit goals or problems
3. Focus on an action-oriented conversation
4. Identify next steps or means for accountability before the end of each session.
5. Listen actively & take a curious stance.

Peer Coaching Is Not:

• Peer coaching is not mentoring. Peers work on things together without a power dynamic. Peer coaching is not advising or guiding.
• Peer coaching is not chatting with a friend. It differs from a conversation with a friend in terms of structure. You stick to schedules and explicit goals.
• Peer coaching is not sharing of technical expertise.
• Peer coaching is not rescuing. It is a basic human impulse to care for the vulnerable. But stepping in as a rescuer for the coachee means denying them ownership of the issue.
• Peer coaching is not mental health counseling. Oftentimes, peer coaching is personal development, which means conversations often wander into emotional realms. If a partner’s concerns seem to require more or different sorts of feedback, the peer coach needs to speak suggest professional counseling.

Peer Coaching Approach

1. Facilitator for the coachee to come up with their own solutions.