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Job Coaching in PracticeTransitioning from Professional to Natural Supports
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Learning Objectives
At the completion of this session, participants will be able to:• Identify Natural and Workplace Supports• Demonstrate Strategies for Transitioning from
Professional to Natural Supports and promote Social Inclusion• Demonstrate Systematic Coaching Strategies• Define Fading as an Active process of “Building In”
Supports
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Evolving Role of Job Coach• Trainer of Technical
Skills and Workplace Consultant• Relationship Builder
and Developer of Natural Supports• Business Analyst and
a Business Service Representative
• A Community Ambassador and Mentor• Functional Capacity
Builder and Behavioral Strategist
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Which is More Important?
As a Job Coach, which is more important:
To be a technician to implement all technical skills needed to perform job functions?
OR
To develop natural and workplace supports to promote social inclusion?
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Equally Important! • As Job Coaches we must find a BALANCE of BOTH! This is key
for long term employment success.• Good teaching techniques and a strong skill set to develop
natural and workplace supports.
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Sources of Support• Natural Supports: Family, friends, co-workers, supervisors,
mentors, environmental cues and natural reinforces
• Workplace Supports: Training & Orientation, Human Resources, Management Culture, Career Development, Labor Unions, EAP, Company Wellness Programs, Social Events/Break times
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Strategies for Transitioning from Professional to Natural Supports• Actively involve:• Employer• Supervisors & • Co-workers in all aspects of job site technical skills training
strategies• Convey the job coach role to employer and co-workers as a:• Facilitator of supports• A resource consultant• And a trainer of technical skills.
…. RATHER than a social service staff assigned to an individual!
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Strategies for Transitioning from Professional to Natural Supports• Assist employers and co-workers on “how to” best teach new
skills and build functional capacity according to individuals’ learning style and personal preferences.
• Teach self-management and self-instruction strategies for maintaining performance on tasks.
• Identify specific co-workers to seek out when assistance is needed.
• Identify and use natural reinforces and environmental cues.
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Strategies for transitioning from Professional to Natural Supports• Find and link individual to others in the workplace who share
similar interests.• Don’t limit your role as an “attachment” to the individual. • Expand your presence to support job functions in the work
environment.
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Does your Work Culture Promote Social Inclusion?• Orientation & Training• Co-workers in Similar Jobs• Rules & Policies• Advancement• Uniform/Dress• Workplace Items• Pay/Benefits
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Does your Work Culture promote Social Inclusion??
• Company Programs• Performance Review• Feedback Solicited• Break Customs• Workplace
Celebrations• Transportation
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Natural Supports & Social Inclusion
• Natural Supports & Social Inclusion: • Is a Strategy for creating Opportunity• Promotes successful inclusion into the work culture • Results in direct hire by employers at competitive wages in
integrated jobs • Increases Independence• Is a Strategy for adding value to business • Reduces long term job coaching supports
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Systematic Coaching StrategiesLet’s focus on 6 Systematic Coaching Strategies: • Analysis: • Work Culture Analysis• Job & Task Analysis• Individual Learning Style analysis
• Direct Instruction (Prompts):• Demonstration • Error Correction• Reinforcement
• Emergence of Natural Supports: • Natural Cues, • Natural Reinforces
• Social & Behavioral Skills Training:• Behavioral Analysis• Soft Skills Modeling
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Systematic Coaching Strategies• Self-management: • Techniques & Devices • Self Prompting• Cue Adaptation• Counters & Timers• Pre-taped Instructions
• Fading: • Identify & use Natural Reinforces• Train Natural Supports• Highlight Environmental Cues
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Fading: An Active Process
Fading: • Is a “build up” of natural supports & interpersonal
relationships, RATHER than a reduction of professional supports.
• Acts as a bridge of supports for EACH area where individual needs assistance.
• Creates self-sustaining supports, rather than a dependency on outside assistance.
• Facilitates social inclusion.• Reduces job coaching costs.
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Upcoming Webinar
Part IV: Building Career Paths • Job Coach Competency 4: • Advocacy• Knowledge of Community Supports • Transportation • Use of Supports in the Workplace to Advance Careers
Thursday, December 4th from 2:30-3:30pm
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Questions? Contact Us!
Center for Excellence & Advocacy 662 Hartford Avenue Providence, RI 02909
Joanne DelAngelo, Director, Community Based Training [email protected] 401.283.1110
Jillian Grossguth, Training Support Coordinator [email protected] 401.283.1107