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Enrolling in a healthcare degree program is a pivotal moment in your life. This is the beginning of your next chapter — the one in which you explore your passion for caring for others, develop the advanced skills required for your field and create a strategy for reaching your professional goals. It's an exciting time, but it can also be intense. Rather than trying to navigate every challenge on your own, you can request academic coaching services at Nebraska Methodist College (NMC).
What Is Academic Coaching?
Academic coaching is one of the personalized support services available to NMC students. Through academic coaching, students receive help and encouragement as they identify goals and develop strategies to improve their academic performance overall.
Commonly confused with tutoring, academic coaching focuses less on subject-area expertise and more on executive functioning skills.
Goal-Oriented Guidance for Academic, Career, and Life Planning
Focusing heavily on goal-setting skills, academic coaches work with students to help them identify short-term and long-term goals. These goals may be related to academic success, career growth or life planning. Regardless of the students' identified goals, academic coaches will help them develop personal strategies for success.
Focused on Building Skills, Confidence, and Long-Term Success
Students have the opportunity to identify the types of skills that they want to focus on through academic coaching, such as time management skills, study skills, test preparation skills, public speaking skills and more. In addition to focusing on academic skill development, coaches build confidence in their students, allowing them to feel empowered to take on the challenges that arise while earning their degree.
Benefits of Academic Coaching
As one of the most powerful support services available to NMC students, academic coaching provides a wide range of benefits. According to Effective Effort Consulting, academic coaching equips students with the skills required to manage the demands of their degree program, with some of the leading benefits of academic coaching including:
Clearer Academic Pathways and Faster Degree Completion
At NMC, most degree programs follow a fixed course sequence — your advisor provides your track, and you complete courses in a specific order over a set timeline. While some programs occasionally allow summer courses to be taken to lighten later semesters, accelerating graduation is generally not an option.
That’s where academic coaching comes in. Coaches help you understand your track clearly, stay on top of requirements, and plan realistically for the challenges of each term. By offering guidance on scheduling, time management, and balancing academics with life’s responsibilities, academic coaching ensures you stay on course and reach graduation with confidence.
Increased Accountability, Motivation, and Confidence
When you request academic coaching services, you will enjoy one-on-one sessions with a qualified and experienced coach who will provide you with encouragement and support on your academic journey. It's a unique partnership that will enhance your accountability, motivation, and confidence, not only throughout your academic career but also in the years following graduation.
Help Navigating Complex Systems Like Financial Aid or Transfer Credits
While NMC works to streamline academic processes and support services for students as much as possible, we recognize that it can be difficult at times to understand some of the more complex systems, such as transferring credits or applying for financial aid. An academic coach can provide you with additional support and guidance, helping you to navigate these systems and ensure the best possible outcomes.
A Trusted Mentor to Lean on Throughout Your College Journey
In addition to enjoying encouragement and personalized support, you will also gain a mentor when you sign up for academic coaching sessions. Your academic coach will be available to you throughout your college career, allowing you to stay in touch, reassess your goals, and refine the strategies you've developed to achieve your academic and career objectives.
What Academic Coaching Looks Like at NMC
Academic coaching at NMC can be tailored to meet your personal needs, with students having the opportunity to cover a wide range of topics, such as:
- Creating a study schedule
- Preventing procrastination and improving motivation
- Overcoming test anxiety
- Improving study habits
- Developing better note-taking skills
- Navigating life stressors and maintaining overall wellness
- Managing financial concerns alongside academic responsibilities
At NMC, coaching is a holistic support system designed to help you thrive in and out of the classroom. Academic coaches help you thrive personally and professionally by equipping you with the tools to manage stress, improve wellness, and navigate financial challenges.
Regardless of what you want to discuss and focus on, you will find that a coaching session at NMC includes:
One-on-One Sessions Focused on Your Academic and Career Goals
Our academic coaching services emphasize a personalized approach, allowing you to meet directly with your academic coach for one-on-one sessions. During these sessions, your coach will talk with you about goal-setting and help you create a strategy for success.
Customized Success Plans That Adapt to Your Schedule and Strengths
The success plans created are designed with you in mind, allowing you to enjoy a tailored approach to academic coaching that accommodates your personal schedule and leverages your strengths. These strategic plans focus on goals you identify during your coaching sessions.
A Relationship-Driven Model That Builds Confidence and Accountability
We believe academic coaches can be a powerful partner in your academic journey. Your academic coach is someone who will hold you accountable and routinely check in to see how your progress is going. This can help increase your natural motivation overtime while simultaneously making you a more confident, self-assured student.
How Coaching Helps Students Graduate More Efficiently
The path to graduation looks different for each individual student, but through academic coaching, you can ensure that your academic pathway is as efficient as possible.
Helping You Stay on Track With Course Sequencing and Deadlines
Your academic coach will provide personalized guidance as to the best course sequencing for your academic goals, and will help you establish deadlines for meeting specific degree requirements, allowing you to stay on track throughout your degree program.
Spotting Early Signs of Struggle and Intervening Strategically
From their objective perspective, academic coaches can spot early signs of struggle in your academic journey. Addressing challenges promptly with targeted interventions supports your academic goals, preventing larger issues that could jeopardize your graduation date.
Academic Coaching vs. Self-Planning: The Graduation Gap
Academic coaching at the collegiate level can improve student retention rates, increase graduation rates and improve institutional outcomes overall. Academic coaching services directly and positively impact your college success.
The Risk of Going It Alone: Missed Requirements, Extra Time, and Burnout
At a time when you are already juggling many responsibilities, academic coaching may seem like one more appointment that you need to fit into your schedule. However, if you choose to prioritize self-planning instead of academic coaching, you may be putting yourself in a vulnerable position where you feel overwhelmed, insecure and exhausted.
Final Takeaway: Graduate Faster, Grow Smarter, Go Further
The bottom line is, an academic coach is one of the most powerful tools that you have available to you throughout your college experience. Requesting coaching services and committing to one-on-one coaching sessions will benefit you as a student, as a professional and as a person.
Academic Coaching Is More Than Support — It’s a Success Strategy
Your academic coach is more than just an advisor. They are a dedicated and experienced professional who knows how to create targeted, strategic interventions designed to meet your needs. It's one of the best investments that you can make in your academic success.
NMC Students Are Proving That Personalized Help Changes Outcomes
Due to the availability of academic coaching on campus, NMC students are thriving. The personalized support that they receive allows them to reach higher, improve their academic outcomes and graduate as quickly as possible.
Discover the Impact of Academic Coaching at Nebraska Methodist College
College provides an opportunity for you to stretch your independence and establish your own roots, but that doesn't mean that you have to embark on this journey alone. At NMC, we are proud to offer personalized academic coaching services for students who need support. Through academic coaching, you will be able to improve your study habits, time management skills and test preparation skills, all while developing a personalized strategy for academic success.
Learn more about the benefits of earning your healthcare degree at NMC and apply today.
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https://www.methodistcollege.edu/academic-services