Coaching Skills for Driving Instructors

This course has been designed to provide you with the necessary skills to coach effectively. Coaching is a method where by the coach raises a persons awareness for their need to improve. This allows the person being coached to discover for themselves their own areas for improvement, why this area exists and what they can do to correct it. Coaching is a highly effective development method as the learners retains knowledge quicker, and is more committed to making changes as the ideas generated are their own. It also builds confidence and helps the person to think for themselves, working methodically to solve issues and problems.


How will this approach help you and your learners?
Before a person can be coached they need to be provided with the knowledge. This is where your existing teaching techniques are utilised. Once this has happened, when a learner makes a mistake, rather than you telling them what they have done you can coach them to help them to understand for themselves. Using this approach will condition the person to think for themselves. And after they leave you they will apply the same approach. They will question themselves on if what they are doing is safe. This will in turn improve driver safety. For you, it means that knowledge is retained and the process should be quicker. Of course, you will also get further positive feedback on the approaches you use.