Coaching Shorts Video Series - Soundbytes for Group and Team Coaches

Part of my Q4 creative project was to launch the new daily Coaching Shorts™ video series on YouTube. These are quick 60 second or less videos to support you as a group or team coaching, providing you with a quick daily soundbyte around core topics like coaching competencies, coaching tools or frameworks.

In the last 33 days I've covered a range of topics from:

Why I do what I do - https://youtube.com/shorts/-jixCmcaDQo?feature=share

to Metaphor - https://youtube.com/shorts/i12r1VDytEg?feature=share 

Scaling the Coaching Conversation - https://youtube.com/shorts/i12r1VDytEg?feature=share

 Coaching Agreements - https://youtube.com/shorts/rEfqB5bZXik?feature=share

Pre-calls - https://youtube.com/shorts/IFfCCNgIumM?feature=share

To the Six Layers of Connection we can activate in group and team coaching - https://youtube.com/shorts/Wlxmq0gcW7A?feature=share 

 I also got to take you on the road with me to Barbados as I returned to my second home in the Caribbean last week to support family members. See what I had to say about my roots as a coach in Day 19 of the Coaching Shorts series - https://youtube.com/shorts/ZcIQCAvnI3M?feature=share

I look forward to continuing to bring you these short soundbytes every day. What topics would you like covered? Be sure to put it in the comments!

Enjoy!

Jennifer

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Team Coaching Essentials - this foundational program is geared for coaches who want to add team coaching to their mix. It is a practical "let's get going" practitioner program of 6 weeks and 14 CCEs. Next session will be led by Jennifer starting Monday November 6th at 12 noon ET. 3 spots open. Reserve your spot.

Neuroscience, Learning and Experiential Processes for Group and Team Coaching - NEW  -- a 2 day offering will be part of our year-end celebrations

Group Coaching Essentials - Our flagship program which started this all. Looking to boost your understanding around what group coaching is and how to structure, market and lead conversations? Join us for the final program of the year in the December accelerated program. https://www.groupcoachingessentials.ca/group-coaching-essentials.html.  With Evana

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Group Coaching - Back to Basics - Working with Goals

Welcome back to another Back to Basics - Group Coaching - blog post. This series has been inspired by the radical shifts we've seen in the world this year. Group coaching continues to be an important
space for people to come together to connect, share and grow. 

Having worked my entire career around disruption and crisis, I've always been struck at how important it is in finding the patterns around what remains similar (maybe not exactly the same, but similar). As much as the context in which we group coach changes, one thing doesn't, which is working with goals. 

Goals create an important part of the map which our group coaching clients navigate. When coaching many, it's paramount that group members are clear on their own unique path of what they are working on, and how that may differ, or be similar, than other group members. 

What are you doing to provide an opportunity for group members to map out their unique goal stream?

This might include:

• A one-page plan which everyone completes and shares within the group, or with the coach;
• A dashboard which the client can access to note their goals
• A goal tracker shared and commented on in Dropbox or Google Drive

What does working with goals look like for you in your programming?

At what level are you working with goals? 

Another key area with goals is to ensure that you are working with both micro-goals as well as the meta-goal. 

Meta-goals, or the 30,000 foot view, is all about helping clients connect their most important goals to their purpose, mission or WHY.

Our micro-goals (those at the ground level) are often the more practical and tactical goals. While these can be alluring to get quick wins around, note that goals also need to be grounded in with our values, beliefs etc. While developing traction and momentum around quick wins is important coaching is also about creating new awareness or insights on the part of clients as they move through their actions.

Challenges and frictions can emerge as our coaching clients move towards their goals, particularly if belief systems start to change, as their results change. Be sure to spend time going "Below the Waterline" as I share in the Coaching Business Builder Workbook and Planner.

What pause points are you making for individuals to explore where they are with their goals?

What opportunities are you providing for group member to speak to and share their goals and progress with others, along with the coach.

There are many derivatives of what is being called group coaching these days. As a credentialed coach or one who aspires to doing the best work they can, it's important that we spend time thinking about how what we are doing maps into the Core Coaching Competencies, and does not deviate into training, consulting or mentoring. 

Also make sure you are meeting the requirements of the ICF for coaching logs, in that your coaching groups are no more than 15 people. Research and practice demonstrates how group size exponentially makes the conversation shift. Larger groups than 15 are not considered a coaching group for ICF coaching log purposes.

WE dive deeper into many different ways to work with goals, awareness and action as group coaches in the Group Coaching Essentials program (8.75 CCEs) I hope that you will join me for an upcoming cohort.

Enjoy your conversations,

Jennifer

Jennifer Britton - Group Coaching Essentials | Effective Virtual Conversations | Potentials Realized
Instagram @Remote Pathways (for remote workers) and @CoachingBizBuilder (for coaches)
Author of Effective Group Coaching (2010), Coaching Business Builder (2018), Effective Virtual Conversations (2017) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013). Check out my author page on Amazon for all publications.
Email: info@potentialsrealized.com

Phone: (416)996-8326

Join us for the one-day Virtual Facilitation Essentials program this fall. Take your virtual facilitation skills to the next level (and yes, even if you've been on zoom every day for the last 7 months there probably still are a trick or two to help you continue to create a WOW experience every time). Cost: $475 US.

 

 

Mentor Coaching: Four Things to Consider

Mentor coaching is an important part of the developmental process of any coach. Sharpening our

skills, and deepening our appreciation about the coaching competencies and what they look like, and sound like, in the coaching conversation is important at all stages. It’s also important as the coaching competencies change in 2021. What are you doing to keep abreast of the changes? 

Today’s blog post takes us into the landscape of mentor coaching, an area that many coaches will find themselves traversing into at least once, or several times, during their coaching career. 

As you consider your own mentor coaching process and support needs, take some time to explore these four areas:

#1 – Consider whether you want to group or a 1-1 mentor coaching process:

As a mentor coach myself for more than a decade, I often hear coaches hungry to hear and see other coaching conversations in action. That’s where joining a group, may be of interest. The small group process can be of great value in that it supports coaches to:

See different coaching styles at play

Hear different perspectives around the coaching process and conversation

Develop a further network of peers

Group mentor coaching is also supported by at minimum three hours of 1-1 conversations which does allow or enable a coach to go deeper into their own interest areas.

#2 – What are the areas you want to focus on?

While there are several of us offering mentor coaching groups, what are the core elements you want to explore for yourself? Are the specific skills you want to hone? New habits you want to establish as a coach?

#3 – What are you looking for from the mentor coach themself?

What are the skills and attributes you are looking for, from the mentor coach themselves? What coaching experience do you want them to bring? Are there any specific models or coaching methodologies you want them to have experience with? What type of support do you want?

#4 – What other program supports are important for mentor coaching?

Are you looking for resources to support you, a review of recordings, direction towards future training? Again, in a group coaching process this is where you may get several different insights, rather than just the mentor coach’s perspectives.

What else is important to explore or consider as you think about your mentor coaching process?

If you are looking for a mentor coach yourself, let's connect to see if I might be a good fit to support you throughout your mentor coaching process. I offer five to six mentor coaching groups each year, and also support coaches individually. Reach out and give me a call. Upcoming mentor coaching groups will be staring on February 3^rd (Mondays 12 – 1 pm Eastern) running from early February to early May 2020, and then again in late March (Fridays 9 – 10 am ET) starting on March 23^rd running to late June. For more on this program, please visit us at https://www.groupcoachingessentials.ca/mentor-coaching-group.html

Have a great rest of the week,

Jennifer

 ennifer Britton - GroupCoachingEssentials | Potentials Realized
Instagram @CoachingBizBuilder
Author of Effective Group Coaching (2010), Coaching Business Builder (2018), Effective Virtual Conversations (2017) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013). Check out my author page on Amazon for all publications.
Email: info@potentialsrealized.com

If you are looking for  coaching skills development through CCE approved programs - The next Group CoachingEssentials CCE approved program starts on Monday February 3rd from 9 - 1015 am ET - group calls will be held on February 3, 10, 24, March 2 and 9, 2020. This 8.75 CCE program also includes weekly 1-1 time with me (15 min each week). Is 2020 your year to get your groups going or expand the number of groups you are doing? Whether you are new to group coaching or stepping into your next year, there’s always something to learn – I hope you’ll join us. Reserve your spot here.

Starting up again soon is the  Virtual Facilitation Essentials - for those that want to expand their conversations to the virtual domain. We'll be meeting on Mondays from 1:30 - 2:45 pm ET on February 24, March 1, 8,  15, 29 2020.




Looking for a ready-made program to roll out to your clients? Consider PlanDoTrack (for remote professionals) or Coaching Business Builder (for Coaches). Next Facilitator training starts February 3, Mondays 6-9 pm ET/3-6 pm PT for 6 weeks (24 CCEs). Learn more and reserve your spot here.
https://www.plandotrack.com/facilitatorpdt.html Next Mentor Coaching Group will start Mondays 12 - 1pm ET on
February 3, 10, 24, March 9, 23, April 6 and May 4, 2020. 10 hours for ACC and PCC renewals.