{"id":3243,"date":"2012-02-13T06:03:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T06:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2022-09-18T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T19:52:11","slug":"peer-coaching-versus-peer-to-peer-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/peer-coaching-versus-peer-to-peer-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer Coaching versus Peer-to-Peer Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether in a formal peer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coaching.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coaching<\/a> relationship on the job or informally with friends, how exactly does peer coaching work?\u00a0 Peers want to be helpful and when a peer is struggling, like to offer helpful suggestions.\u00a0 Consider this typical peer conversation:<\/p>\n<p><em>Peer A: <\/em>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p><em>Peer B: <\/em>Okay I guess.\u00a0 I wish I there was an easier way to coordinate everyone\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n<p><em>Peer A: <\/em>Why don\u2019t you just tell them the scheduled time and ask them to RSVP?<\/p>\n<p><em>Peer B: <\/em>Oh no \u2013 they have to be there so we have to find a time that works.<\/p>\n<p><em>Peer A: <\/em>So why don\u2019t you plan it on a set schedule?<\/p>\n<p><em>Peer B: <\/em>Well, with what is happening around here there is no way that would work.\u00a0 Thanks anyway for the idea.<\/p>\n<p>What is happening?\u00a0 Peer A is simply unaware of the nuances of the situation so the ideas are generic in nature.\u00a0 Even if peer A offers an idea that peer B likes, often peer B simply fails to use it because the opportunity for them to think it through was missed.\u00a0 Peer coaching offers a different approach.\u00a0 In coaching, the premise is that the coachee is their own best expert so the role of the coach is to listen and ask questions.<\/p>\n<p>Come back on Wednesday for an example of a peer coaching conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether in a formal peer coaching relationship on the job or informally with friends, how exactly does peer coaching work?\u00a0 Peers want to be helpful &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,40],"tags":[91,48,50,55,88,97],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-business-coach","tag-coach","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-services","tag-effective-coaching","tag-peer-coaching","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11097,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions\/11097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}