What are the benefits of reflective practice?

• Consolidate new learning into our practice.

• Innovation and vitality through - opening our mindsets to multiple

perspectives.

• Increase our capacity abilities through feedback and clarification.

• Partnership – reflecting with a ‘support team’.

• Tests out ideas, working with questions, for example:

o “What obstacles prevent me from being effective with my client?”

o “What is challenging or concerning me about this situation?”

• Processes our emotions.

• Supports us in managing the potential isolation of working on our own.

• Increase confidence and trust in our approach.

• Build and work with our ‘muscles’ for the new learning – conceptualise,

commit, plan and embody the new learning.

• A regular touchpoint to ground our practice, a different perspective can

increase and raise our awareness, creativity, and blind spots.

How does this support a Leader as Coach?

• Working with our intentions and assumptions can increase efficiency.

• Being aware of the key learning styles (Kolb) and enhancing our

understanding of the context.

• It develops our ability to become self-aware about what we are doing, how

we are intervening and its impact on the outcome.

• Using a systems perspective to focus on the fundamental forces promoting

or impeding our work with clients.

Benita Treanor • Professional_reflective_prac