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Meet Coaching Instructor, Jennifer James, PCC | The Academies

Name: Meet Coaching Instructor, Jennifer James, PCC | The Academies
Uploaded: 2024-01-04T19:48:29+00:00
Duration: 1 min 8 s
Channel: Susan Britton MCC
Description: In this introductory monologue, coaching instructor Jennifer James (PCC) shares her personal journey and philosophy around coaching. She describes how…

4 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this introductory monologue, coaching instructor Jennifer James (PCC) shares her personal journey and philosophy around coaching. She describes how coaching has been an unofficial part of her career and now feels thrilled to coach formally. Her teaching style is described as approachable and learner‑centered, rooted in remembering what it felt like to be in the learner’s seat. She emphasizes the power of peer support, where individuals lift each other up and focus on strengths. James highlights that adopting a coach mindset improves her listening skills, allowing the client to lead the conversation. She stresses that coaching is not about the coach but about empowering the client, replacing self‑doubt with an internal voice of strength and confidence.

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Everything about coaching speaks to me. I feel like my entire career I have been unofficially coaching, and at this point am thrilled to be officially coaching. So my teaching style is very approachable. I always remember what it was like to be in the seat throughout the learning experience. What I am always amazed at and just what warms my heart is the fact that each individual lifts other individuals up. We're all learning. We're all on a journey of getting better as coaches, and we need to have a focus with our peers on what's strong. Maybe I wasn't as good of a listener as I thought I was, and I think having that coach mindset really enables me to be a better listener, allowing the individual that I'm interacting with to lead and to understand that it's their way, right? It's not about me. It's all about that person that I'm having interactions with. We don't have a voice in our head that's telling us telling us that we can't. Instead, we have a voice that's saying, "You are strong and you've got this."