Effective Coaching
Tutorial Room A | Thu 22 Jan 3:45 p.m.–5:25 p.m.
Presented by
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Nicola has worked in tech since computers had floppy drives. She's worked with search engines, vending machines, VOIP technologies, and email platforms. In any conversation, she will likely start talking about data privacy (with some rage), or hopepunk (with wild enthusiasm).
Nicola is a leadership coach with the very fine folks at Blackmill, helping teams and leaders become high performers.
Nicola has worked in tech since computers had floppy drives. She's worked with search engines, vending machines, VOIP technologies, and email platforms. In any conversation, she will likely start talking about data privacy (with some rage), or hopepunk (with wild enthusiasm).
Nicola is a leadership coach with the very fine folks at Blackmill, helping teams and leaders become high performers.
Abstract
Who should attend this workshop
- You enjoy lifting other people up and giving them confidence to shine.
- You've heard that coaching is an effective leadership, mentoring and management skill, and want to know more.
- You've tried to coach in the past, but it seemed slow, frustrating, or it didn't work.
- You wish you could clone your knowledge into other people.
- You find yourself in the position of Oracle: the repository of all knowledge. You are often interrupted for advice or answers and this isn't scalable.
You do not need to be a manager or leader to be an effective coach: these skills are useful within your professional career no matter your position in the org chart, or even if you are yet to be hired for the first time.
Why you should come to this workshop
Humans like to be helpful. This is (sometimes) a terrible idea.
When someone comes to us for help, we try to help them. We try to give them an answer to their situation, that they may become unstuck and go on with their day. This is the right approach in many circumstances... but not all. Sometimes an answer may solve the immediate problem, and it may be understood by the other person, and maybe they'll know how to apply that answer now and in the future. However, it often just teaches learned helplessness: they will now rely on you whenever they are unsure.
One alternative is a coaching approach. Coaching helps others develop their own answers. It's a hugely effective way to support people to internalise new skills, build self-confidence, and teach them a reflective practice that means they'll be able to coach themselves through challenges in the future.
Using coaching, you can help people gain more than an immediate solution they'll gain context and wisdom, passed on through you. This is a skill useful in work, in parenting, in communities and in school.
Why you should not come to this workshop
Please don't come if you are expecting a cloning machine, information about sports coaching, life coaching, or therapy. We will be looking at coaching within the workplace only.
What you will learn
In this fully interactive, totally participative workshop, we'll cover:
- what coaching is (and isn't),
- when it's appropriate to be used (and when it's not!),
- some key skills (and some key pitfalls),
- but mainly how to coach others - through lots of practice on each other.
Pre-requisites
The best way to learn a new skill is to try it out in a safe environment: please come prepared to have a go! If you have a work-related challenge you'd like to be coached through, please bring that idea along. No other prep or knowledge required other than being open to some fun.
Who should attend this workshop
- You enjoy lifting other people up and giving them confidence to shine.
- You've heard that coaching is an effective leadership, mentoring and management skill, and want to know more.
- You've tried to coach in the past, but it seemed slow, frustrating, or it didn't work.
- You wish you could clone your knowledge into other people.
- You find yourself in the position of Oracle: the repository of all knowledge. You are often interrupted for advice or answers and this isn't scalable.
You do not need to be a manager or leader to be an effective coach: these skills are useful within your professional career no matter your position in the org chart, or even if you are yet to be hired for the first time.
Why you should come to this workshop
Humans like to be helpful. This is (sometimes) a terrible idea.
When someone comes to us for help, we try to help them. We try to give them an answer to their situation, that they may become unstuck and go on with their day. This is the right approach in many circumstances... but not all. Sometimes an answer may solve the immediate problem, and it may be understood by the other person, and maybe they'll know how to apply that answer now and in the future. However, it often just teaches learned helplessness: they will now rely on you whenever they are unsure.
One alternative is a coaching approach. Coaching helps others develop their own answers. It's a hugely effective way to support people to internalise new skills, build self-confidence, and teach them a reflective practice that means they'll be able to coach themselves through challenges in the future.
Using coaching, you can help people gain more than an immediate solution they'll gain context and wisdom, passed on through you. This is a skill useful in work, in parenting, in communities and in school.
Why you should not come to this workshop
Please don't come if you are expecting a cloning machine, information about sports coaching, life coaching, or therapy. We will be looking at coaching within the workplace only.
What you will learn
In this fully interactive, totally participative workshop, we'll cover:
- what coaching is (and isn't),
- when it's appropriate to be used (and when it's not!),
- some key skills (and some key pitfalls),
- but mainly how to coach others - through lots of practice on each other.
Pre-requisites
The best way to learn a new skill is to try it out in a safe environment: please come prepared to have a go! If you have a work-related challenge you'd like to be coached through, please bring that idea along. No other prep or knowledge required other than being open to some fun.