​Reflective practices are so important

As a driving instructor the use of reflective practices has been growing and you, and your clients, are encouraged to keep reflective logs.
We all need a mirror; reflecting on our thoughts and experiences is essential to personal growth. A good coach will have expertise in the key skills of summarising, paraphrasing and using metaphors for clarifying thoughts.
Here is a little more about the differences between these key skills and why reflective practices are so important. Summarising sounds simple, but you really need to listen, not to just the words, but to the body language that accompanies the words.
When you feedback in this way, you are reflecting back to your client their own words, so they can hear them for themselves. This gives them the opportunity to examine their beliefs and opinions, which you’ve laid out in front them.
Your role is to allow them to examine their own stories and how they are telling them. It is useful to replay their body language to help them see their emotions, as they tell their stories.

Paraphrasing has similarities to summarising. The essential difference is you have put the reflection into your own words. This allows the client to see how others interpret their stories, helping them gain insight, and allowing them to explore their beliefs from a different perspective.
A metaphor sometimes will make the situation more comprehensible and help the client consider more deeply what they have been saying, helping to bring clarity to their story. You can use metaphors such as: 'that situation turned into a giant snowball once you got the ball rolling,’ which might be used to sum up a story that started as something quite trivial and just grew and grew. You could ask: ‘are you making a mountain out of a molehill’ or if the client sounds overwhelmed you could say: 'it sounds like you’re trying to push water up a hill'. You can also use that old adage: 'the bottom line is .................. ‘ which can be useful in summing up an entire emotional story.
For example, the bottom line is: 'you still want to leave your job.' If you are interested in improving your skills when reflecting back to your clients’ their thoughts and feelings, then you should look at our next coaching course.

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Coaching and Feedback People become defensive very quickly, especially when they receive negative feedback. Negative feedback promotes a fear-based learning environment and can trigger a survival response in the brain: freeze, fight or flight. We naturally don't trust being told to act differently and this is one of the reasons people fear change. You may recognise this type of response if you are a driving instructor, when the switch was made from an instructor-led approach to client-centred learning. Resistance to change is difficult, our old behaviours are linked to fear of failure, fear of not being good enough or simply test-driven results. This is the number one problem with a fault-focused training approach based around test performance.

No wonder so many driving instructors blame nerves for their clients' failing tests. The fear of getting it wrong becomes overwhelming. Feedback that evolves around driving faults - and especially those faults committed on a driving test - adds to the fear factor. When someone gives you feedback it can often trigger, stress, shame, and fear. People have a tendency to hang onto the negative, no matter how you dress it up. Fault identification, fault analysis and remedial action, led by the driving instructor, is destructive towards the client's confidence; and trying to give ‘helpful’ information to people often raises their defensiveness and lowers their confidence. Your job is to grow their minds and create problem solvers and thinkers of the highest calibre, who are self-aware and can manage their own emotional intelligence.

If you want to learn about using coaching and the feedback tools of a coach, then we have a wide range of courses that will help you raise your own skills to another level. If you are interested in coaching for driver development, The BTEC Level 4 Professional Award in Coaching for Driver Development is the course for you.

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