EDUCATIONAL COACHING: A MODEL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTRA AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

Abstract

In today’s knowledge-based society, in constant change and vertiginous evolution, we need men and women able to take decisions and to adapt themselves to an uncertain and unpredictable world.

To achieve this goal in higher education context, we have chosen coaching as a methodological technique which encourages the development of human potential and helps the students to progress from where they are today to where they intend to get tomorrow. This methodology is based on setting personal goals and on the implementation of a series of planned actions that
allow the subject to carry out certain ways of being and acting.

The first step consisted in deepening in coaching programs: origins, conceptual definition, characteristics and functions of the subjects involved, information that allowed us to present a model we have implemented in teachers former education.

Several phases have been followed in methodology implementation: a preliminary phase as a starting point to implement the model; the development phase, centred on the development of inter and intrapersonal competences. SWOT analysis made possible an assessment of the process and the putting forwards of some proposals in order to consolidate this model in the future, model which makes possible the acquisition of key competences for self-assertiveness and supposes a stimulus for a future incorporation into the work force.