Training activities develop the potential capacity to act, coaching takes this potential capacity and sets it into action.  This project will create a network of professional coaches to follow up development training projects, and make the training stick. Coaching takes place face-to-face, by phone, internet voip, email or even mobile phone and sms.   

 This project would:  * set up and coordinate a data-base of coaches, by language and area of expertise, * inform development programs about the potential of add-on coaching to training to bring results, * promote add-on coaching to development training projects, * match coaches with in-coming requests by development training projects, * coordinate, oversee, get feedback, report back to head offices on the process and results achieved.

Group or individual coaching sessions via internet technology together with brief interventions via mobile phones to help people be accountable to their plans, enthuse and support as they work towards goals and explore just-in-time solutions to current obstacles.  Coaching is not a great conversation nor training, mentoring or advising, but a specific methodology that supports and empowers behavioral change.  Applying new knowledge and skills requires changes in behavior, and changing behavior requires shifts in brain activity – new synapses must be built to rewire neurons for change. Only supported action, in small -- even very small but consistent -- steps over a period of time builds these new neuron highways.

I have access to professional coach associations, coach networks and a global virtual on-line professional coach certification program for project support.

In addition:

Elizabeth Abbot brings professional experience in international development, international education and directing the Italian office of a cultural exchange organization. She has experience with young organizations and those in change. She seeks hidden truths – the core idea, the common denominator, the thread, how it connects – and builds a system that springs from these foundations. These traits make her a coach that works from vision to strategy to workable plans and results.  She believes that systems win out over intentions every time and that only action leads to results.

 

She has a Masters of Science in Management from Boston University and a BA in English and Economics from Williams College. She is a trained professional coach through the International Coach Academy and a cross-cultural trainer. In addition, she is certified to  administer and debrief the Polaris 360° assessment for global leaders and trained as a teleclass leader in virtual adult learning environments.