Coaching vs. Teaching
Why the difference matters in project management education
A wonderful thing about humanity: most people love to learn. Think about
how much fun it is when you have a question, and you are able to succeed in
finding the answer through your own efforts researching online or in a library.
You are intrinsically motivated to learn and to feel good about succeeding with
your own investigative efforts. This, at a very fundamental level, is
considered “learning.”
Satisfying an emerging curiosity on a topic
by researching an initial question is the first level of learning: awareness.
But to truly achieve mastery (the highest level of learning) on any topic, you
have to move through four levels of learning: awareness, knowledge, skill, and
mastery.
Many project management (PM) education
programs teach the basics of PM knowledge from, for instance, A Guide to the Project Management Body of
Knowledge (Project Management Institute, fifth edition
2013), including knowledge areas, process groups, project management framework,
and so forth. This brings students through the first two levels of learning,
awareness and knowledge. And while many folks are passionate about becoming
better project managers, few are genuinely excited about the details of this PM
knowledge—so learning about them can become a real chore.
For students to really engage with their
learning and to reach the level of mastery, they shouldn’t simply be
taught—they should be coached. In a “teaching” model, project management
classes deliver PM knowledge to students, whose role is to memorize information
and (if they’re lucky) think about its application to real projects. “Teaching”
is often one-way communication that focuses on the teacher’s
point of view: Teachers share wisdom from their own experiences in order to
offer students a model for how they might navigate their own situations.
A better method to teaching is coaching. For
example, in Cheetah Learning’s four-day Cheetah Exam Prep for the PMP exam
course, Cheetah coaches help students quickly absorb and assimilate a large
quantity of information in a short amount of time. And rather than teaching
students about the PMP exam, Cheetah coaches guide students through a proven
process to quickly master the skills required to pass the PMP exam.
This difference between teaching and coaching
is critically important when preparing to pass the rigorous Project Management
Professional (PMP) exam. Having a seasoned coach guiding you through the most
efficient way to pass the exam means, for many people, the difference between
easily and comfortably passing, as opposed to struggling and not achieving
desired results from self-directed PMP study efforts. Passing the PMP exam is a significant personal
career goal. The more important the goal, the more important it is you get
effective coaching to better ensure your chances of success.
Regards
Pralhad Jadhav
Senior Manager @ Knowledge
Repository
Khaitan & Co
Upcoming Conference | National Conference
on Transforming Libraries into Knowledge Resource Centres 11th – 12th January
2018, SNDT Mumbai For further details contact Prof Jyoti Bhabal (jyotibhabal@gmail.com
)
Fyi@Librarian: Coaching Vs. Teaching >>>>> Download Now
ReplyDelete>>>>> Download Full
Fyi@Librarian: Coaching Vs. Teaching >>>>> Download LINK
>>>>> Download Now
Fyi@Librarian: Coaching Vs. Teaching >>>>> Download Full
>>>>> Download LINK Iy