Research Paper: Tim Jordan Coaching Teenagers and Young People

Research Paper Assessment Name: Tim Jordan Date: November 10th, 2012 Student ID: 265466 Email: jimtordan@gmail.
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Coaching teenagers and young people

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1. Introduction
2. Some main issues young people face and can benefit from life coaching in 3. How receiving coaching can benefit a young person
4. How young people view coaching 5. Striving to understand young people links to being a more effective coach 6. Focus on the amazing
7. Coaching the parents of young people and teenagers

8. Conclusion
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1. Introduction
This essay explores the topic of coaching teenagers and young people and specifically with life coaching. This is a niche area of coaching and one that takes a specific understanding of the young person in the immediate cultural as well as an overall understanding of young people and teenagers in general. This paper discusses some of the main ways in which coaching can benefit a young person and some appropriate coaching methods that young people have reacted well to. Research is also presented on the effectiveness of coaching young people. For simplicities sake, this paper will name all teenagers and young people as young people or persons and is referring to any stage from beginning of high school until graduating from college.
2. Some main issues young people face and can benefit from life coaching in
It is important for a coach to understand that there are some matters that mean the world to most teenagers. Friends are a big one and a young persons happiness, moods, and decisions is for many based on their friends circle and the way the friendships are formed. Image is another important one as how they perceive others view them and how they view themselves has a profound effect on their emotions. To look good is extremely important to a young person. This topic of image carries over into health matters, diets, economical state of their family and where they are able to excel or be
perceived as successful and cool. Relationships between males and females are also a matter that has an effect on their overall emotional and personal well-being.
Young people in every culture and country across the globe have their own unique issues related to their upbringing and environment but these highlight some general issues which are important to a wide variety of young people around the world. For example, in some countries succeeding academically and getting high grades is one of the main pressures a young person faces, whereas in other countries the pressure is more career based or job/salary affected. As a coach, knowing generally how teens and young people are known to think, react, and act and striving to understand the issues that are important to them is the first step in being able to be a coach that can offer them the assistance that they may come to you for.
3. How receiving coaching can benefit a young person
There are two main arenas for coaching of young people. One is of the teenager who is in high school and their world still revolves very much around school, peers, parental issues etc. And the other arena is of the young person who is either entering into college or entering the new world of career and job. In both of these arenas, there are various issues and challenges that a young person can benefit from life coaching, some of which are covered here.
Young people need help in establishing and recognizing what are their core values and learning to make decisions based on these. They need assistance in pinpointing their passion in life and how they can take steps in that direction. Most young people need to
build their confidence so that they are then able to move towards their goals relaxed at ease and believing in themselves. Young people tend to have a lot of fears and apprehensions about the future and this can limit them in their dreams and belief in themselves or others and a coach can help them walk through those fears and face them. A coach can help a young person to feel more comfortable being themselves and less susceptible to peer pressure. Young people at times also just need someone to vent their frustrations and worries to without feeling judged or without someone trying to jump in and solve the problem for them. Young peoples emotions are usually intense in one form or another and they experience very high highs and very low lows and a coach can teach them specific techniques or tools in which to manage these emotions.
Young people tend to be led by emotions in decisions regarding what they want to do or things that they want to accomplish. For example, a common happening amongst young people is that they suddenly become inspired and intrigued to pursue a particular thing. As an example, many young people become inspired to learn an instrument or pursue music in some way. Some learn that hard work brings results and they are encouraged by their own successes. For others, its the thrill of performing and they enjoy the glory and popularity that they see other musicians receive. In either case, the young person can become disillusioned, discouraged or confused after some time, wondering what they should do and if they should continue or should they have ever tried in the first place. A coach can help the young person to frame and understand his/her reasons for pursuing music. By helping the young person to define the goal that they want to set for themselves, the coach can then guide the young person in setting realistic expectations for progress towards the goal.
Studies show that an increasing amount of young people are using medication for anxiety and depression and while counseling and psychiatric treatments are used and available for these issues, life coaching is a method that help the young person to take their eyes off the issues and problems that are causing this emotional imbalance and instead focus their energies and emotions on both their short term and long term goals, dreams, visions and the possibilities of the future. Coaching has also been found to be highly effective with challenging or poorly performing young people. 4. How young people view coaching Teens like to blame someone else often for the issues, challenges or problems they face in life and it is important for a coach to be aware of this and assist in guiding the young person away from the blame game in order to focus energies on more positive steps.
Young people are striving for self-sufficiency. They dont want to appear needy and so may find it non-appealing or even embarrassing for them to seek out coaching. However, young people thrive under the guidance of a mentor and need someone that they can talk about things that they do not feel they can talk with their parents or others about.
Young people dont like to be lectured, and on first impressions they may feel that a coach is there to lecture and talk about how they should be doing things better. They need to become aware of what coaching is and what it is not and then feeling more at ease that it will not be an environment where they are being instructed or lectured.
Building off the sport coach idea, young people are finding it more appealing to receive coaching in a similar fashion to help them further their lifes goal and dreams.
5. Striving to understand how young people think links to being a more

effective coach Knowing generally how teens and young people are known to think, act, and react is the first step in being able to be a coach that can offer them the assistance that they may be looking for. It is well worth a coachs time who is interested in being a youth coach to study and research the wealth of resources available that can give insight and guidance into the lives of young people and what they face.
That there are individual learning styles is a widely agreed upon theory and this can be a valuable tool in the hands of an effective coach. Life coach Marie Lindvall Wahlberg, has been successfully coaching teenagers for many years now and bases her coaching on a few models like the GROW or PRAISE 2. She also sets a foundation before beginning coaching of the teenager, by determining their personal learning style through a test. The teenager then goes onto receiving coaching that is based on their test results and gives a uniquely tailor made plan for the individual.
Young people dont always react well to too much self-reflection as many times they do not even understand the emotions that they are going through and so find it hard to even express it so understanding this is important for a coach so that the coaching does not get stuck on one type of reflection or one type of method but is an active reflection of what the young person responds to best.
Young people usually arent very good at looking too far into the future or even wanting to picture their life five years ahead. They like the spur of the moment things and the exciting things and an effective coach can try to capitalize on the spur of the moment desires in young people while at the same time showing them the benefits of thinking more long term. To this end, one idea could be to ask the client to write a letter to himself in the future, in which they actually describe what will be happening to them at this time. The letter serves as an impetus for our client to focus their thoughts on why they are seeking a particular goal and what the end clearly goal is. Another method is to have the client write a list of their priorities and current principles on which they base their decisions and then sealing this in an envelope which is then opened up again in the future. At that time they could re-write their list of goals and priorities and principles and then compare the two to see the ways in which their perspectives have been re-framed or find that they learn something about themselves in this process.
In the long term our client needs to achieve their motivation internally and it is worth our while to discuss with them what they can do to keep their focus and remain motivated to achieve their goals. We can refer them back to their identified visions and goals as this can serve as a strong anchor whenever our client feels like they are getting lost. We can also help our client by explaining that goals are not set in stone and if they have to their goals can be modified or fine tuned this might remove some unnecessary pressure.
6. Focus on the amazing A coach should focus on the strengths of the young person, what they seem to be doing right, their talents, the things that make them the amazing, unique talented individual that
they are. A coach should strive to find out about what excites the young person, what they love doing and help them to identify what they are good at and where they are amazing.
This exercise it itself, that of encouraging the young person, talking about how they are amazing and hearing from them what they feel they are good at, ways that they have succeeded or unique gifts that they have is an incredibly powerful tool that a coach can use to bring the young person on a path of forward progress. Inside their sub-conscious many young people feel insecure, apprehensive about the future and conscious about others view them. They desperately need an outside voice encouraging them to never give up. Reminding them constantly of all that they have achieved and telling them how proud you are of them for any steps of progress or even efforts of progress. 7. Coaching the parents of young people and teenagers A common side effect of coaching is that a coach will receive request for coaching from the parents of the young person, specifically the teenage young person. To be an effective coach you can consider coaching the parents as well as it can help you in understanding the environment in which the young person lives, interacts and forms relationships. It is a very important part of their lives and who they are.
A coach can guide or coach the parent of the young person in trying out certain types of interaction with their young person and observing what brings the positive results. An effective tool that can be used with the parents is encouraging them to take the time to focus on the good points of their teenager. Parents tend to pressure themselves about their young person and what they feel they should be, so helping and guiding a parent to
relax and enjoy their young person can make a world of difference in their interaction with them and helps to minimize the intensities that can happen. A coach can also encourage the parents to not tell their young person what to do and how to do it, but rather being there to help them find ways of doing it themselves. Being vulnerable and sharing their own experiences, mistakes and challenges which they faced when young or how they made decisions regarding education and work etc. can also help a parent to be more relatable and thus a better communicator. Take time with their young person its an investment that always pays
8. Conclusion In summary, teenagers and young people can benefit enormously from life coaching and career coaching. There are three main ingredients that can help a coach to be successful in coaching young people and these are; trust, non-judgmental listening, logical objective self-assessment. By using these ingredients in coaching of young people you will create an atmosphere that is conducive to them making progress towards their unique and individual life goals.
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Reference List The Life Coach for teens and adults, 2012. Retrieved on October 5, 2012, from http://thelifecoachforteens.com/ Zone of Excellence, 2011. Retrieved on October 7, 2012 from http://www.zoneofexcellence.ca/Journal/Issue14/index.html Teen Life Coach, 2009. Retrieved October 10, 2012, from http://www.theteenlifecoach.com Coach for the Life, 2011. Retrieved October 6, 2012, from http://coachforthelife.com Performance Potential, 2011. Retrieved October 15, 2012, from http://www.performancepotential.com.au/Performance_Potential_homepage.html Teen Coaching. Retrieved October 20, 2012 from http://www.teencoaching.ie/
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Research Paper Assessment Name: Tim Jordan Date: November 10th, 2012 Student ID: 265466 Email: jimtordan@gmail.

Coaching teenagers and young people

7. Coaching the parents of young people and teenagers

3. How receiving coaching can benefit a young person

5. Striving to understand how young people think links to being a more

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