Listening Exercise

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• Break into dyads• 5 minutes – JUST LISTENING! Nothing else!!

Reflective listening• Mirroring• Paraphrasing

Full presence• Remove distractions• Eye contact• Acknowledge you are hearing them

Silence• Allow them to fill the silence

• 1 minute to reflect the ESSENCE of what you heard• Switch and do the same

Encouragement Exercise

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Take 5 minutes to write the names of two or more people you want to encourage.

Include one thing you can authentically acknowledge each of them for and how you want to say it to them.

Also include what you feel the best type(s) of encouragement would be for these people moving forward;• Language• Recognition• Focused Time• Trusting with more authority

Questioning Exercise

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• Role play a specific situation

• The one with the ball is the one that asks the next question.

• If you have the ball, toss to anyone else who will then ask the next question.

• Try to make it a question that is open ended and starts with ‘WHAT’

• Have fun and be daring with your questions!

Constructing Powerful Questions

What Variety of Question Is It?

Clarifying

Self Awarene

ss

Challenging Action

1What’s it going to take for you

to ___?

What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?

What are you willing to do?

What would it look like if you were leveraging this strength fully?

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Requesting Exercise

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• Break into dyads

• Coachee gets coached on something they want MORE OF or something they want LESS OF

• Coach for 7 minutes using Listening, Encouraging and Questioning

• Towards the end of 7 minutes make an OUTRAGEOUS Request

• Anchor what is agreed upon

• Switch coach and coachee for same

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Author, Date

Let’s do Some coaching!

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• Break into dyads

• Coach one another using the 5 Core Coaching Skills for 15 minutes each

• Switch roles at 15 minute mark

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Author, Date

Let’s do some coaching!

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• Break into dyads

• Coach one another using the 5 Step Coaching Exchange for 15 minutes each

• Switch roles at 15 minute mark

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Author, Date

Let’s do some coaching!

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• Break into dyads

• Coach one another using the 5 Step Coaching Exchange for 15 minutes each

• Switch roles at 15 minute mark

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Author, Date

Let’s do some coaching!

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• Break into dyads

• Coach one another using the 5 Guiding Principles for 15 minutes each

• Switch roles at 15 minute mark

(C) Coaching Out of the Box(R)

Let’s Have Some Fun!With the

5 Step Coaching Skills&

5 Step Coaching Exchange

Let’s Have Some Fun!

(C) Coaching Out of the Box(R)

Groups of ?? <determine this based on overall group size and time available

15 minutes to create a coaching demonstration

Each group will have to determine a coaching plot

Decisions for your team to make immediately:

• What is our coaching plot?

• Who gets coached and who coaches

• Character(s) in the coaching

Each group will present a demonstration

up to 7 minutes

(C) Coaching Out of the Box(R)

Let’s Have Some FunPlot Examples

• Little Red Riding Hood• The wolf needs some coaching because he has decided

to go vegan but every time he sees Red he loses his willpower

• The Wizard of Oz• Dorothy has been to Oz and is now back in Kansas but

now Kansas seems like a giant bore after she’s been to the amazing world of OZ and she’s restless

• Gone With the Wind• Scarlett decides she is to much of a ‘hot house flower’

and wants to do something dramatic with her life to ‘toughen up’.

Curiouser and Curiouser Exercise

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• Break into triads – Coach / Coachee / Observer

• Each person in triad think of 1 or more hobby(s) or skill(s) you are very proficient at, or even expert at and write it down on a piece of paper.

• The coachee will be coached for 7 minutes as a novice starting out in one of the hobbies or skills the coach is proficient/expert in.

• The observer will raise their hand each or any time they hear the coach leading or straying from a genuine curiosity.

• Coach will need to reframe what they have said and/or realign themselves into curiosity