INDIVIDUAL FACULTY COACHING

Individual Coaching Helps New Faculty:

• Identify research, writing, and teaching goals
• Negotiate conflicts and effectively maneuver around institutional challenges
• Develop and maintain more successful and satisfying professional relationships
• Manage pressure and stress
  
• Forge a more satisfying and productive work life

Faculty who are members of a socially marginalized group (e.g., people of color, women, sexual minorities), may also struggle with:

• Feeling devalued and dismissed in the university context
• Facing pressure to constantly “prove themselves”
• Having their opinions and ideas marginalized
• Encountering exclusion from inner circles and informal networks that are critical to professional success
• Feeling over-burdened with extra service-related requests and demands
• Consistently facing subtle biases and discrimination and yet struggling to find effective ways to challenge them with colleagues and power-brokers 

How Does Faculty Coaching Work?

• Faculty have an initial consultation to establish thier goals and concerns.
• Faculty purchase a semester package of coaching sessions
• The coach and faculty member agree on a weekly meeting time
• Each week, faculty call in (via telephone) for a 45 minute individualized session
• During the session, faculty review their previous weeks progress, discuss problems and concerns that arose the previous week, and strategize on solutions for the upcoming week
• Coaches listen, help clients devise solutions to particular problems, and hold them accountable for following through on their action-plans.