Lead, mentor, coach: GROW Coaching for researchers
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Content
As you advance in your academic career, your role increasingly involves guiding students, mentoring junior researchers and coaching fellow researchers. How can you empower them to overcome obstacles and drive their own research forward effectively? To equip you with the skills for impactful coaching, this training given by Dr Robin Lefèbvre (Grow2Excel), teaches you to put the GROW Coaching Model, developed by Sir John Whitmore, into practice. The focus is on how you can help others find their own solutions, so they learn better and become more independent.
Most researchers are good at solving problems and telling others how to fix theirs. However, the issue of being really good at using a hammer is that not everything needs to be treated as a nail. Here we aim to expand your supervisor toolbox with a screwdriver. Learning how to better understand the problem statement and enable the coachee to come up with their own solutions. Thus resulting that they come less to you with superficial questions.
As a heads up, the training is very hands-on, you will learn how to coach, by coaching your training peers and hence be coached by them as well. So an added benefit is that you might also get some unexpected help with projects where you are stuck at.
Learning outcomes
After having attended this training, participants will be able to...
- learn the difference between leading / managing / mentoring / coaching,
- experience different coaching tools,
- use the non-directive (t-GROW) approach to coaching,
- ask powerful questions that unlock new perspectives for your students and colleagues,
- boost the problem-solving abilities of those you supervise.
Competences
An important part of preparing for any further professional step is becoming (more) aware of the competences you have developed and/or want to develop. In the current workshop, the following competences from the UHasselt competency overview are actively dealt with:
- interpersonal competences:
- coaching
- leadership
- personal effectiveness:
- self-development
Practicalities
For whom?
- PhD students & postdocs
- 15 places available
When and where?
- 2 days: October 13 & 14, 2025 - 09:00 - 17:00 - campus Hasselt, building Old Prison, room OG-B1.1Gr.
Preparation?
Registration?
- Registration is closed since September 14, 2025.
- Please register only if you can attend both days.
- As places are limited, registering does not automatically imply that you will be able to participate. You will be notified by email after the registration deadline has passed.
- Please cancel your registration at least one week in advance in case you cannot make it (cf. cancellation & no-show policy).
Acknowledged as?
- DS BSH: category 'career management & personal development' - workshop on personal development
- DS HLS: category 'transferable skills' - compulsory elective course
- DS ST: category 'career & personal development' - course on personal development