Coaching and Mentoring
Coaching involves co-creation between The Arizona Institute for Family Involvement and Innovation personnel and each client, providing structure, guidance and support to address individual and organizational change. This may include:
- Setting relevant and realistic goals
- Targeting areas to improve and strengthen
- Finding blind spots, habits or bias
- Discovering, clarifying, aligning and inspiring
- Understanding and overcoming barriers impeding progress
- Eliciting self-generated solutions and strategies
- Creating action plans
- Taking achievable action toward reaching goals
- Holding individuals accountable and responsible
Mentoring focuses on a developmental experience between a less experienced partner and AIFI personnel or affiliates with additional or greater skills and/or experiences. Mentoring is designed to:
- Allow for knowledge or skill transfer
- Share "lessons learned" working within a System of Care
- Foster and cultivate family leaders
- Enhance the skills of those within state, county or organizational leadership roles
