Journey Advocates Training

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Project: Journey Advocates Training – Cultivating a Coaching Mindset

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Objective: Designed and facilitated training to help participants develop a coaching mindset, improve active listening, and enhance their presence during coaching conversations.

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Audience: Journey Advocates tasked with supporting employees through coaching and development.

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Tools Used: PowerPoint, mindfulness techniques, interactive coaching activities, and peer coaching exercises.

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Approach: Focused on curiosity-driven coaching, mindfulness techniques (breathing exercises, centering), and continuous development through regular self-assessment and practice.

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Outcome: Advocates gained practical tools to maintain coaching presence, foster transformation through curiosity, and implement mindfulness techniques to support coachees effectively.

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Results/Impact

Increased Confidence in Coaching: Journey Advocates felt more prepared to have performance conversations and drive consultant success through coaching.

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Empowered Influence: Participants reported feeling equipped to positively influence consultant performance and development.

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Leadership Recognition: The training received positive feedback from leadership for fostering a coaching mindset and enhancing team development strategies.

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Cultivating A Coaching Mindset

Sharpen coaching skills, maintain coaching presence, and approach conversations with curiosity over judgment.

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Review/Check-In

One of the number 1 ways to build rapport is through active listening

3 levels of listening

Mirroring/Matching

Reflective dialogue

If rapport is broken, it can be restored

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What We Will Cover

• Understanding a coaching mindset
• The value of curiosity
• Maintaining coaching presence
• Mindfulness techniques
• Continuous learning and development
• Practice Coaching

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COACHING MINDSET

Focus is always on the person not the problem

Curiosity driven

Compassionately detached

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Self-aware and seeking continuous development

Tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty

• Spends just as much time in the role of client as in the role of coach

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CURIOSITY

• Fundamental part of co-active coaching
• Open, inviting, spacious, almost playful
• Complete lack of judgment
• Judgment is projecting your personal interpretation of the situation
• Allows space for transformation while maintaining autonomy

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COACHING PRESENCE

• Cornerstone of all good coaching
• Fully connected to the coachee and the conversation at hand
• Level 3 listening
• Feeling of being in flow
• State of awareness in the moment by the felt experience of timeliness, connectedness, and a larger truth

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MINDFULNESS

Is not synonymous with meditation

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Neuroscience refers to it as whole-brain integration

Key to maintaining coaching presence

Increases grey matter concentration in brain regions involved in:

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• Meditation is a tool for achieving mindfulness
• Mindfulness can happen throughout the day and can be maintained during a coaching session

• Learning & memory processing
• Emotion regulation
• Self-referential processing
• Perspective taking

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MINDFULNESS TECHNIQUES FOR COACHES

• Three-minute breathing space
• Walking meditation
• Witness meditation
• Centring
• Reflective writing/journaling

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Practise/Activity

Three-minute breathing space

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Centring

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CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT

Coaching is a lifelong journey

Regular self-assessments

Practise, Practise, Practise

Be a client as much as possible

• Review your coaching skills and assess them on a scale of 1-10
• Use the core competencies as a reference

Get involved

• ICF
• COMENSA
• Local events
• Webinars

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Pair up

The person who is coachee will choose what to work on

• One person will be coachee and the other will be coach

The coach will follow the coaching framework

Go through as much of the framework as you can

Consider your level of presence during the conversation

• See if you can notice your level of listening
• Practise remaining completely detached from the outcome
• Focus on curiosity over judgment

Practise/Activity

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Wrap Up

Insights/Learnings

Key Take Aways:

• Mindfulness and meditation are not synonymous
• Coaching Presence is the magic ingredient for transformation
• Coaching is a lifelong journey – never stop learning and growing

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Next Steps

Continue to practise your coaching framework

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Continue to notice your listening levels

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Start trying some different mindfulness techniques to hone in your coaching presence

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In our next session we will:

• Learn how to craft a coaching plan with your coachee
• Learn various coaching tools and how to incorporate them into your plan
• More practise!!

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