Basics of coaching from Agile Open Space workshop
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This document describes an Agile Open Space meetup for empowering self-organizing teams through coaching. The meetup covers leadership, coaching, and facilitation skills for team empowerment. It outlines an introduction to coaching and similarities/differences between coaching and other roles. The meetup agenda includes coaching sessions on setting goals and addressing barriers, with a focus on limiting beliefs and behaviors. The goal is to help coachees create a learning plan with experiments and community support.
Basics of coaching from Agile Open Space workshop
- 1. Agile Open Space Empowering Self-Organizing Teams: Basics of Coaching Agile Open Space Meetup group www.agileopenspace.org
- 2. Why are we here? Empowering Self-Organizing Teams • Leadership Skills. Who are you? How do you show up in the team? What influence do you have on other team members? • Coaching Skills. How can you empower others? How can you help them learn and grow? • Facilitation Skills. How can you read interpersonal dynamics and team behaviour? How can you intervene in the team to nurture creativity and collaboration? Agile Open Space www.agileopenspace.org
- 3. Thanks to our sponsors: @SeedBoxTech: Follow us for a live feed of your #AgileOpenSpace on Twitter! Agile Open Space Meetup group www.agileopenspace.org
- 4. Introduction to Coaching • What is coaching and what is not coaching? • What are “typical” elements of a coaching conversation? Agile Open Space www.agileopenspace.org
- 5. What are the similarities & differences between? • • • • • Coaching and mentoring? Coaching and therapy? Coaching and teaching? Coaching and parenting? Coaching and conversation with a good friend? Agile Open Space www.agileopenspace.org
- 7. A Five-Domain Coaching Model Agile Open Space www.agileopenspace.org
- 8. Session 1: Current Reality and Desired Future Options Obstacles What’s the ideal situation? Way Forward What’s the current situation? Reality Assessment of reality (facts) Agile Open Space Goal Envision the desired future www.agileopenspace.org
- 9. Session structure • • • • 5 min Introduction 40 min Coaching Session 10 min Team Retrospective (write on big post-it) 5 min General Retrospective (with everybody) • • • • Form groups of 6-8 people 1 coachee 2 coaches 3-5 observers (write notes, use timeouts) Agile Open Space www.agileopenspace.org
- 10. Session 2: What’s in the way? Options Obstacles Explore gaps and barriers What are (all) the different barriers? Way Forward What are the most limiting barriers? (prioritize) Reality Agile Open Space Goal www.agileopenspace.org
- 11. Session 3: Discover Hidden Potentials Options Obstacles Explore gaps and barriers What are the personal barriers: Way Forward limiting beliefs, fear and patterns of behavior? Reality Agile Open Space Goal www.agileopenspace.org
- 12. Co-Create Awareness Fear Limiting beliefs Patterns of behaviour “I’m afraid that…” “He won’t, I can’t…” “I/we normally…” Remind coachee that feeling fear doesn’t mean that something is dangerous. Clarify assumptions, invite doubt and question beliefs. (one at a time) Make coachee see (and feel) the consequences of his/her (habitual) behaviour. Have you felt (this) fear before? What happened? How did you deal with it? How does it feel like to trust someone? To trust yourself? How can you be sure? What are the facts? What are different interpretations of these facts? What are counter examples? Agile Open Space What will be the consequences if you continue with this behaviour? For yourself? For Tom and Mary? Tomorrow? In 10 years? www.agileopenspace.org
- 13. Session 4: Create a Learning Plan Options Create learning experiments (kaizen) What are appropriate learning steps? Obstacles Way Forward Integrate practice and support How can coachee gain support from practice and community? Reality Agile Open Space Goal www.agileopenspace.org
- 14. Conclusions • Wrap-up, comments, insights – in the “park” • Future events: Coaching Retreat, Boston, March 15th Coaching Skills, Seedbox, April 26th Agile Open Space www.agileopenspace.org