Supervising Career Coaches Series: Article 3 - Brain Science: Helping Clients Grow and Learn

This second cohort would target supervisors of career coaches within American Job Centers (AJCs) and follow a “train the trainer” style format, providing promising practices for increasing capacity as supervisors, methods for effectively leading teams, and offering strategies for taking transactional coaching methods to transformational interactions with clients.

The “Train the Trainer” cohort concluded in August 2024 and offered a multitude of resources for the 70+ participants. To ensure the valuable information shared with cohort attendees is accessible to the entire workforce system, we will be posting a multi-part “Supervising Career Coaches Series" on our Community of Practice (CoP) over the next few months, covering the topics discussed in the cohort and providing the corresponding resources. This is the third article in the series, which covers brain science and how career coaches can tailor their coaching strategy to optimally serve their clients.

How Does Learning Work?

• Six Trumps- the six brain science principles from Sharon Bowman's book Using Brain Science to Make Training Stick
• Visual-Aural-Read/Write-Kinesthetic (VARK) Learning Styles and Assessment- a learning style questionnaire that helps determine the best study or learning strategies for students or clients

Strategies for Brain-Based Instructional Design for Optimal Results 

• A Quick Guide to the 4 Cs Map- brain-based instructional design and delivery model
• Brain-Based Career Development (BBCD) Theory- check out this link to explore a free webinar on BBCD through the National Career Development Association (NCDA)
• Innovators' Compass- life design and learning competency strategies

We invite you to connect with Dr. Lakeisha Mathews, this session's presenter, if you have additional questions on this topic!

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• Resource Publication Date: 2024
• Posted by: Danielle Herbert
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