Coaching

In Fall of 2020, CETL Faculty Success launched a 1:1 faculty coaching program that has quickly had deep impact. We offer coaching as part of select cohortbased programs and Faculty Learning Communities, and as a standalone offering for faculty. Faculty Success coaching focuses on flourishing in academia. Specific coaching topics include, for example, clarifying professional goals, identifying values and strengths, increasing productivity, managing conflict, facing challenges, strategic planning, improving work-life harmony, exploring what’s next at KSU, and developing leadership or other professional skills and competencies.

This is distinct from the teaching consultation program offered by CETL-Scholarly Teaching, which draws upon expertise in the learning sciences and educational development to provide research-based teaching and learning-related advice to faculty. CETL faculty success coaches do not give advice, provide mentorship, provide therapy, or share expertise. Their expertise is in coaching itself: asking powerful questions, listening deeply, challenging assumptions, recognizing insights, and holding the space for the client to identify where they are, where they want to be, and what steps they will take to get there. We provide a carefully designed space for guided reflection and discovery using prompts and assessment instruments from the coaching discipline. We also at times share curated resources from the literature that might clarify the ideas the coachee generates in coaching sessions.

While coaching is not a distinct topical area of focus, it is an innovative program (next to workshops/webinars and mutual mentoring groups) by which we help faculty grow in our five areas of focus. CETL is a national leader in launching an internal faculty coaching program and we have received inquiries by other USG institutions (Georgia College and State University, the University of Georgia, and Georgia Tech).