April 30, 2003

Coaching for midwives

The Managing Midwifery workshop was a huge success. The workshop activities around dealing with complex organisations, goal setting, solution based approaches to resolving problems, writing proposals for midwifery projects and the coaching were particularly popular. Much fun was had by all, as we worked hard in small groups, laughed over lunch and shared many success stories (and disappointments) along the way.

The idea of including coaching as a topic was new for most of the group. These are important skills for managers to develop, especially if they want to motivate and support staff as they move into new ways of working. It is a different concept from mentoring, which is a hierarchical model, and as Michael Cavanagh, the facilitator of this session put it succinctly “A coach is the guide on the side not the sage on the stage”. The idea of supporting and assisting someone through a coaching relationship as they move through their life, work and various challenges, is a concept we need to develop further for midwives. The hierarchical structures that have existed for so long in nursing and midwifery are underlying factors in the bullying that goes on, and we need positive ways of tackling this endemic problem.

We are going to explore some innovative ways of developing these skills in midwives for future programs. Managing Midwifery will certainly we on again next year and it will be hard to resist the temptation to make it 3 (or more!) days instead of the current two. There is so much to be shared and learned!

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