Accessibility Micro-coaching

A technique for honing everyone’s accessibility skills

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Ever since the Internet was invented, training and communications trends have centered around getting those materials focused, more compact, shorter, and more effective.

• Why go to an all-day training when you can get the same training online in 20-minute chunks?
• Why read an entire book when you can review focused blogs and tweets?

Micro-coaching is exactly what you might think it is. Coaching, but in a much smaller, bite-sized chunk.

Micro-coaching is the practice of engaging in frequent, brief, targeted, in-workflow coaching conversations. The hallmarks of micro-coaching sessions are that:

• they are usually less than 10 minutes;
• they are not is not scheduled, scripted, or forced, and;
• they can be initiated either by the coacher, or the coachee.