Application and Practice of the Coaching Technique in Heart-to-Heart Talk of University Counselors

Xiaoli Shu 

Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China 

Abstract: The heart-to-heart talk is a significant way of the education communication in the counselors’ work. However, for the traditional way of talking with students, the counselors’ education work directly aims at the problems of students, in which the students would easily have antagonism, leading to poor education quality. The ‘coaching technique’ is applied to heart-to-heart talk of counselors through positive communication concepts, it adopts the method of hovering attention to current problems of students, and directly questions towards the goal to trigger the thought of students. Through the coaching technique, the actions of the students are motivated and their studies are promoted, it benefits the university students with self-growth and improves the education efficiency of counselors.

Keywords: Coaching technique; Heart-to-heart talk; University counselors; Positive