What is Group Coaching?
Top performers in sports know the value of coaching – as have top executives. Group coaching provides a powerful and affordable way to improve the performance and skills of the leaders in your organization. We have solutions for emerging leaders as well as seasoned executives.
Why Invest in Group Coaching?
- To break down walls and functional silos in order to gain greater alignment with your overall vision and values
- To generate greater momentum in achieving your specific business objectives
- To create an environment of trust where team members support and challenge each other to be their best
- To build leadership skills and capability quickly, consistently and effectively
- To foster open dialogue where everyone is held accountable
- To achieve the results you and your organization wants and needs
What is our Coaching Philosophy?
We use group coaching with leaders across functions as a means to develop your new leaders’ capabilities, teamwork and results. In our sessions we will:
- Do our work within the context of the organization’s vision, values and objectives
- Focus on the real challenges your leaders face in the trenches – not theory
- Use a strength based approach to bring everyone’s best talents and skills forward
- Insist on and instill accountability – through planning, commitment, and follow up
- Expand leadership capacity through content that is relevant and used in the context of achieving real results
What is the Group Coaching Methodology?
We follow a cycle of Learn ? Support ? Plan ? Commit ?Act ? Reflect ? Report. Over time, these cycles become an ingrained way of working in every arena. Sessions are 4 hours per month and are pre-scheduled and committed to. We bring 90 minutes of new content to each group session that enables your leaders to grow and develop. Included are many tools and techniques that are immediately useful. Content, unless adapted for your specific needs, will be introduced in this sequence:
| Emerging Leaders Series | |
| Session | |
| 1 | Self Awareness
Enhance self-awareness of own personal style and the impact their style has in leading others using the DiSC framework. In the process, an understanding of other’s styles is fostered. We’ll examine the style composition of your team and how it impacts day to day interactions. The session also includes a peer feedback process. |
| 2 | Vision & Purpose
Create alignment to the organization’s vision, values and mission. We’ll explore how these play out in day to day actions and how leadership contributes to living the values and moving toward the vision. Personal values will be articulated and linkages drawn between individual and group values. |
| 3 | Group Dynamics
Establish leadership group norms in the context of understanding the power of group norms and how to se theme with their own teams. We use the Pat Murray framework for effective group dynamics. Result will be stronger team norms and leaders who understand how to create powerful group norms in their own teams. |
| 4 | Systems Thinking
Apply basic systems thinking models that include mental models, cause & effect feedback loops and causal looping. This provides a framework for basic strategic thinking and also for diagnosis of pitfalls with implementation plans. |
| 5 | Creating
Learn to use framing, intention setting and visioning for creating new possibilities in the work place related to the group’s objectives. Learning how to create new teams, structures, and processes will be enhanced by this basic understanding of the core of innovation and creation. |
| 6 | Planning / Execution
Actively use the PDCA cycle and basic project management tools to plan and execute work in their teams more effectively. Time and energy management tools will be provided. |
| 7 | Communication
Learn active listening skills, how to establish dialogue and to ask compelling and powerful questions. A section is included in how to adapt personal communication styles based on the DiSC framework to boost communication effectiveness with all styles. |
| 8 | Developing Others
Establish a framework for delegating effectively and skills for providing both constructive and appreciative feedback. Learn what to delegate, who to delegate to and how to hold others accountable. |
What happens in a peer coaching session?
Our sessions follow a Learn ? Support ? Plan ? Commit ?Act ? Reflect ? Report methodology. Each team member will leave a session with specific action items that supports your organizational objectives and the learning for the session. We ask that they take action on their commitment and reflect on the results achieved prior to the session.
| Session Agenda | |
| 20 min | Report – Group check in reporting on action items and results |
| 90 min | Learn – Key leadership skills (based on schedule above) |
| 60 min. | Support – Process team issues and build team |
| 30 min. | Plan – Group planning on specific action items |
| 15 min. | Commit – Individuals commit to specific action items |
| Between Sessions | |
| As Needed | Act – Follow through on specific action items individually |
| As Needed | Reflect – Review actions taken, results, successes and learning prior to meeting |
General Guidelines
- Excellent coaching requires a high degree of trust and comfort in working together. While this builds over time, sessions are structured so that early sessions focus on jump starting the establishment of trust and rapport.
- Coaching is a commitment requiring scheduling meetings in advance, honoring those meetings and doing the preparation and follow on work for the sessions. While team members may have to miss a session on occasion, absences should be infrequent and due to compelling reasons.
- Coaching sessions accommodate up to 15 members.
- Sessions begin with reporting out, to the group, on the progress made on the commitments set in the prior session. All work and commitments are aligned with significant and real business objectives.
- Selecting the right coach is important. As such, we’ll assess fit after our first 3 sessions. If you determine I’m not a fit – we’ll make a change.
- Overtime, our goal is that coaching happens every day in your organization from every member of your leadership team.
