The main purpose of instructing or coaching is to help people learn. Therefore, any Instructor or Coach should have a clear understanding of how people learn, helping them make more effective decisions in creating a learning environment to support their students.
To be an effective Instructor and Coach we can use some helpful techniques to make the students trust us and want to learn from us. Our biggest influence is ‘rapport’.
How you are perceived by others determines your credibility and therefore the influence you will have over them. First impressions are vital as it is estimated that up to 90 per cent of people’s opinions of you are formed in the first 10 seconds of meeting you.