Foundations of Assessment & Coaching

Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services and university relations and recruiting professionals
Competency: Coaching
Fee: $250 (member); $375 (nonmember);

Summary
The purpose of this course is to understand the concept of assessment and its role in coaching. This class will discuss assessing factors impacting coaching, evaluating the coach environment, factors affecting the decision-making process, as well as the role that assessments play in the coaching process.

Course Content Areas:
- The coaching process: establishing the relationship, understanding bias toward action, assessment, facilitation, transitioning the relationship;
- The factors affecting the coaching process, such as stages of change, attitude, cultural, environment, social, coachee-support system;
- Assessments as a vehicle for change, and how they can be used as powerful coaching tools. When validated and reliable assessments are used within the coaching process, strengths and opportunities can be identified; and
- Factors that can impact a coachee’s goals, such as sexual orientation factors, multicultural issues, learning issues, health factors.
Following this program, you will be able to:
- Complete the three units of this course: 1) understanding factors that impact a coachee, 2) the coach environments and decision making, and 3) traditional assessment;
- Complete a mix of instruction, including video, an opportunity for reflection through written activity to dive into the identification of factors impacting the coaching process, guidance and direction as to how to be sensitive. Become aware of these factors with the goal of empowering the coachee to reframe their thoughts and perspectives, identify and clarify goals, identify their potential, ideate a plan, and assess progress;
- Identify existing factors affecting the coaching process: client support, system, attitude, and social factors;
- Establish appropriate career goals based on coachee preferences and assessment results;
- Empower the coachee to identify goals, and evaluate assessment tools for purpose, appropriateness, and accessibility; and
- Review appropriate assessments, based on coachee scenario, that will aid in the attainment of coachee goals.
Presenters

Meg Flournoy, Director, Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
Meg Flournoy is sector director, global and health, for the Career Management Center at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Flournoy is an experienced career services professional providing guidance to graduate business students and alumni from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University interested in general management and global opportunities. She has experience with global career business development, the healthcare industry, coaching, and advising. Flournoy developed coaching skills through positions at the University of Maryland, University College, Muhlenberg College, and Lafayette College. Over the past 15 years, she has worked with undergraduate liberal arts students, engineering students, and evening graduate school students. She has also worked with divisions of companies on the topics of staff development, self-assessment, and team building. Flournoy holds a master's degree in counseling psychology from Lehigh University, and a bachelor's degree in political science from Susquehanna University. Flournoy is past president of the Susquehanna University alumni association.