Recently, I have found myself talking a lot more about how coaching
conversations are changing as
Program Design Hack-Sprint December 2017 |
Over the last 14 years I’ve had the chance to innovate with a
number of different program modalities to “meet clients where they are at”. A
standard 60 minute, every other week, conversation model has not always worked.
As a group and team coach, the shift started quite a long time ago in the world
of my clients, and in recent years I have
found myself in engagements ranging from an hour a week over a year, to working
embedded with teams for three days to a week. What I love about this is that
our conversations are never static!
As a program designer I’m always listening for what my
clients are yearning for next. It’s led to a couple of national awards, and
more importantly, programming that fits their needs.
One of the program designs many of the coaches who work with
me are flocking towards for their own development is participating in the regular
(i.e. quarterly) program sprints and hacks I offer through the Learning Lab and
Design Studio.
As you can imagine, program work can expand to a pretty big
canvas. This is especially true as coaches where we are always wanting to meet
the client “where they are at”. I’m a real believer in Parkinson’s Rule, that tasks
will take as long as we allocate them. This led me to start experimenting with
a much more compressed program design cycle, influenced by the sprint and hacks
coming out of the Agile space.
About 2 years ago I started offering 45-minute program
development sprints and hacks as a quarterly offering. What we used to do in a 3-6
hour window we’re moving through in a compressed 45-minute window. Every three-to-four
minutes we move through a cycle of questions, reflection and writing space. These
reflective chunks can be interspersed with sharing and dialogue if you have
more time.
One of the real-benefits of a process like this is that you
can really zoom into some quick clarity, intuitive clarity, around new programs
or processes. At the end of the 45 minute widow where we go
Wrapping up a Program Design Sprint Hack - Britton 2018 |
If you’d like to experience one for yourself, join us in the
Learning Lab and Design Studio this month (March 2018) as one of our three
calls this month will be another 45-minute Program Design Hack.
The calls this
month at the LLDS are:
Friday March 2nd (845 – 930 am Eastern/Toronto)– 5 Skills Facilitators
and Coaches Need
Thursday March 8th (1:30 -5:30 pm Eastern/Toronto): Virtual
Retreat – Get Things Done!
Friday March 23rd (845 -930 am Eastern/Toronto): Program
Design Hack
Learn more about the LLDS click here and join us for the
month of March, or for the rest of the year. Monthly membership is $147/month or you can
join us for the next 12 months for $1250 US. Email me to reserve your spot and be invoiced separately.
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