Transcript Listening Exercise - Coaching Out Of The Box

Listening Exercise
• Break into dyads
• 5 minutes – JUST LISTENING! Nothing else!!
Reflective listening
•Mirroring
• Paraphrasing
 Full presence
• Remove distractions
• Eye contact
• Acknowledge you are hearing them
 Silence
• Allow them to fill the silence
• 1 minute to reflect the ESSENCE of what you heard
• Switch and do the same
© Coaching Out of the Box™
Encouragement Exercise
Take 5 minutes to write the names of two or more people you
want to encourage.
Include one thing you can authentically acknowledge each of
them for and how you want to say it to them.
Also include what you feel the best type(s) of encouragement
would be for these people moving forward;
• Language
• Recognition
• Focused Time
• Trusting with more authority
© Coaching Out of the Box™
Questioning Exercise
• Role play
a specific situation
• The one with the ball is the one that
asks the next question.
• If you have the ball, toss to anyone else who
will then ask the next question.
• Try to make it a question that is open ended and
starts with ‘WHAT’
• Have fun and be daring with your questions!
© Coaching Out of the Box™
Constructing Powerful Questions
What Variety of Question Is It?
1
What’s it going to
take for you to
___?
2
3
What will make this
project easier?
4
Can you meet with
those 3 team
members this
week?
What is this costing
you?
What would you do
if you knew you
couldn’t fail?
How much is
enough?
How can you
overcome this
obstacle?
What needs to
change within you
to make this
happen?
What are you
willing to do?
What do you really
want?
What can you do to
make this happen?
How can you grow
from this
experience?
What would it look
like if you were
leveraging this
strength fully?
What resources will
you need?
What are your next
steps?
What motivates
you? / What shuts
you down?
© Coaching Out of the Box™
Clarifying
Self
Awareness
Challenging
Action
Requesting Exercise
• Break into dyads
• Coachee gets coached on something they want
MORE OF or something they want LESS OF
• Coach for 7 minutes using Listening,
Encouraging and Questioning
• Towards the end of 7 minutes make an
OUTRAGEOUS Request
• Anchor what is agreed upon
• Switch coach and coachee for same
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Let’s do
Some coaching!
•Title
Break into dyads
Sub
Title
• Coach
one another
using the 5 Core
Coaching Skills for 15
minutes each
• Switch roles at 15
minute mark
Author, Date
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Let’s do
some coaching!
•Title
Break into dyads
Sub
Title
• Coach
one another
using the 5 Step
Coaching Exchange for
15 minutes each
• Switch roles at 15
minute mark
Author, Date
© Coaching Out of the Box™
Let’s do
some coaching!
•Title
Break into dyads
Sub
Title
• Coach
one another
using the 5 Step
Coaching Exchange for
15 minutes each
• Switch roles at 15
minute mark
Author, Date
© Coaching Out of the Box™
Let’s do
some coaching!
•Title
Break into dyads
Sub
Title
• Coach
one another
using the 5 Guiding
Principles for 15 minutes
each
• Switch roles at 15
minute mark
Author, Date
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(C) Coaching Out of the Box(R)
Groups of ?? <determine this based on overall group size and time available
15 minutes to create a coaching demonstration
Each group will have to determine a coaching plot
Decisions for your team to make immediately:
• What is our coaching plot?
• Who gets coached and who coaches
• Character(s) in the coaching
Each group will present a demonstration
up to 7 minutes
(C) Coaching Out of the Box(R)
• Little Red Riding Hood
• The wolf needs some coaching because he has decided
to go vegan but every time he sees Red he loses his
willpower
• The Wizard of Oz
• Dorothy has been to Oz and is now back in Kansas but
now Kansas seems like a giant bore after she’s been to
the amazing world of OZ and she’s restless
• Gone With the Wind
• Scarlett decides she is to much of a ‘hot house flower’
and wants to do something dramatic with her life to
‘toughen up’.
(C) Coaching Out of the Box(R)
Curiouser and Curiouser
Exercise
• Break into triads – Coach / Coachee / Observer
• Each person in triad think of 1 or more hobby(s) or skill(s) you are
very proficient at, or even expert at and write it down on a piece of
paper.
• The coachee will be coached for 7 minutes as a novice starting out in
one of the hobbies or skills the coach is proficient/expert in.
• The observer will raise their hand each or any time they hear the
coach leading or straying from a genuine curiosity.
• Coach will need to reframe what they have said and/or realign
themselves into curiosity
© Coaching Out of the Box™