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To date, coaching services have primarily been available as development support for participants in the Yukon Government Leadership Forum (YGLF).
The Government of Yukon continues to build a critical mass of coaching skills in the organization by offering its coaching training program. As the number of skilled coaches increases, coaching services are now open to anyone throughout the organization.
Establishing a coaching relationship
Staff Development Branch administers a matching process of coaches and colleagues. If coaching services are required, contact Tracey Johnson at 667-3711. Tracey will work with you to confirm what you need, discuss availability of coaches and if possible, arrange a coach who's strengths match with the areas that you identify you would like to explore.
The first thing you will do is negotiate a coaching agreement with your coach to determine what your relationship will look like.
This will include determining when, where, and how often to meet, timelines and goals to strive for, and a review of:
1) the Standards of Conduct [13.2 KB 
]paper, which defines what you can expect in terms of a coach’s behaviour ; and,
2) Ethical Guidelines [33.8 KB ], which further defines and outlines what you can expect from the coach in terms of confidentiality, conflicts of interest, termination of the coaching relationship and a complaint process.
Everything discussed within the coaching relationship stays between you and the coach. Any information that you share and discuss with the intent of enhancing the colleague’s skills will not be discussed anywhere else. Information may be retained for the intent of enhancing your skills, and for that purpose only. For further details please refer to the Ethical Guidelines[33.8 KB ].
There are three models of coaching that you may be exposed to. They are:
- reflective,
- instrumented, and
- observational coaching.
You and your coach can use any one of these approaches to co-create how you are going to work together. The two of you may decide to use one, all or any combination of these approaches to work with.
The following models are quoted from Executive Coaching: Resource Book 2000, Pacific Soundings Press, Sacramento, California – p. 17-18.
The coach can “walk” you through job-related dilemmas, helping you identify and test out basic frames of reference and the assumptions about your ways of working with problems and issues.
The reflective coach can help you live with, manage, reframe and resolve the “messes,” paradoxes and paradigm shifts that inevitably confront people in organizations. The coach will also help you reflect on the critical issues in your work life: when it is an appropriate time to take things apart (chaos) and when is it better to keep things together (order).
Coaches can also assist you in learning about yourself, your interpersonal relationships, your styles of learning, how you lead and manage people, how you make decisions and manage conflict.
A coach can administer one or more questionnaires to you or arrange for the questionnaires to be administered.
The information gleaned from such questionnaires can help you identify, learn about, learn through and expand your repertoire of work behaviours. The coach can assist you in moving beyond the information contained in the questionnaire by administering or organizing a comparable questionnaire to others with whom you work.
Examining this information with your coach can then help you assess the interplay between your personal styles, values and attitudes and the environment in which you work.
With this information in hand, the coach reflects with you on ways in which your styles, values and attitudes are manifest in the dilemmas and challenges that you face every day in your working environment.
Together, you and your coach will discover and invent ways in which to further enhance the use of your strengths and examine the presence of conditions in the workplace that are conducive to the use of your strengths.
The coach provides a systematic and structured process for you, the colleague, that enables you to identify your distinctive strengths as observed by the coach under actual working conditions. The coach may collect information from you regarding your own perceptions of your personal strengths, and then can compare this with assessment information made by others with whom you work, as well as your coach’s personal observation and video-recordings.
This information is then fed back allowing you and your coach to collaboratively reflect on the meaning and the implications of these observations and information.
Sometimes coaching relationships don’t work. When issues and concerns arise for you, please contact Tracey Johnson at 667-3711 or Cheryl Van Blaricom at 667-8267. When required, Staff Development can re-arrange a coaching relationship for you.
Contact Information - Coaching Services
Email: Tracey Johnson
Phone: 867-667-3711
No Fault Withdrawal - if your coaching relationship isn't working:
Email: Tracey Johnson
Phone: 867-667-3711
Email: Cheryl Van Blaricom
Phone: 867-667-8267