manchester 31 jan 2013 final introduction to a systems approach to coaching
TRANSCRIPT
Outline• Introductions
• Introduction to a Systems Approach
• Designing a Partnership Alliance
• Constellating Tool
• Practising Coaching Skills
• Exploration and Reflection
Learning Outcomes• To understand the potential impact of being intentional
• To develop awareness and use of a systems tool
• To practise key coaching skills of listening, questioning and feedback
• To explore how these approaches may be applied in practice
3
Ground Rules & Introductions
•Your name, role and organisation
•How would you like this workshop to feel?
•One thing you’re proud of?
•One thing you’re passionate about?
•Thank your partner!
A Systems Overview
No one is an island……
We live our lives in a sea of connections
We’re all part of complex systems...
Touch one thread and the whole system moves.
A system is composed of many parts
And…..
the sum is greater than those parts.
Creating intentional and conscious relationships
• What is the atmosphere you want to create between you & around you?
• What would help this partnership to flourish?
• How do you want to behave when things get hard?
• What can you count on from each other?
• What will you commit to for one another?
Designing the Partnership Alliance
• Designing a Partnership Alliance
• Creating atmosphere
• Sharing responsibility
What is a Systems Approach?
• Systems coaching works with the relationship.
• The coach’s job is to contribute to the skills of creating conscious intentional relationship.
• By revealing the system to itself, the coach helps the system see its own strengths, its obstacles, its potential.
• Underpinning philosophy is the system can find its own answers.
Systems Coaching
•Designing a Partnership Alliance
•Building rapport and empathy
•Asking open and curious questions
•Actively listening at level 3
•Being aware and attentive to non-verbal language, intuition
•Remaining non-judgmental
•Raising awareness and understanding
Constellating a System
•A method for revealing the system
•Recreating the system visually
•Coaching process helps gain overview and deeper understanding
•Moves towards action