A new perspective to Coaching & Facilitation

Over the past week I attended this Pre-Company Tactics Course (CTC), on coaching & facilitation from 15-21 Dec. It was a 5 days course, where we were exposed to skills on conversation coaching and facilitation. What made this whole course so insightful and memorable was the really experience facilitators that conducted the course. The course was experiential, enjoyable and very practical, experiencing first hand coaching our self, doing the various activities that helped us internalised the skills in coaching.

We were split between the NSF & Regular group and was the only Signal NSF there. As the course went by, we were allowed to very vulnerable with one another as we had many opportunities to just share our lives with one another. At the end of this week course, the friends we made here, just gave me an extra motivation as we reunited with one another again as the actual CTC begins come Jan 2011.

Reflections:
One of the biggest take away I got from this course was that "Coaching is NOT telling, its how the coach ask leading questions to the coachee so that he will begin to find the answer within himself and take ownership of it."

John Whitmore define coaching as "unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance, it is helping them to learn rather than teaching them"

THE G.R.O.W MODEL (Adapted from john Whitmore book Coaching for performance):

It's about going through this 4 steps in a G.R.O.W chronologically with your coachee/mentoree...

THE GROW MODEL:
GOAL
-Positively stated
-Evidence
-Context
-How Controllable (Scale from 1-10)
-Worthiness (purpose, benefits)

REALITY
-Past Success (what worked?)
-Past Set Backs(What didn't work?)
-sources for support
- obstacles/challegnes
-Our strengths & Weakness
-Self Acknowledge

OPTIONS
-Magic Wand
-Aternativees
-Support
-Resources
-Pros & Cons
-Suggest Carfeully (Permission)

"E.g. If you were_____ what wld you do?"

WAY FORWARD/ WHAT'S NEXT'S?
-Taking the next step forward
- One commitment that you want to take back
-Actions, By When
-Possible obstacles faced
-Support request
-Coachee to Sum up

(The 2 certificates i got at the end of this 5 day course!)