Highlights
Step-up your coaching skills and help people achieve outstanding results. In the kata coaching dojo participants improve their skill through repeated practice of specific situations. Afterward, coaches move back to reality with increased skill.
This is an intermediate-level coaching kata workshop. Participants must have one year of experience practicing the improvement kata and coaching kata.
Overview
Having good coaches that enable teams to be more innovative and faster in problem-solving than others, that create a climate that increases self-confidence and motivation to strive for real challenges and achieve outstanding results might be one of the essential assets in competition today. This holds in business as well as in sports, nonprofits, and vocational fields. The Coaching kata, a pattern with five coaching questions, provides an excellent starting point for anybody aspiring to coach others. However, developing excellent coaching skills is a challenge and needs practice and therefore time.
Developing excellent coaching skills needs time as experience only builds through practice. As a second coach or internal/external trainer we usually face two obstacles:
- coaches develop skills slowly which reduces motivation and impact
- developing multiple coaches in parallel is time-consuming and limits our reach
A reason might be that we often rely on coaching real target conditions plus a second coach observing and giving feedback. This creates lots of work for the second coach and makes for slow learning as it is hard to put feedback from the 2nd coach into practice.
Example: Imagine a coach getting feedback from a second coach today. Even if the feedback is superb and the coach fully understands it, the coach would maybe need three to five repetitions of the same situation to practice the advice received — not to speak of making it intuitive. Now, how likely is it that the same situation will appear in tomorrow's real coaching cycle so the coach may practice?
From this training, you will walk away with…
- Increased situational coaching ability
- The ability to use deepening questions beyond the starter coaching kata
- Helpful tips and tricks to enhance your coaching
- A training method for coaches to establish within your organization or team
Presenter: Brandon Brown
Brandon Brown is worldwide master kata coach delivering tangible and sustainable continuous improvement results as a Toyota kata master coach and lean instructor/facilitator. Since 2012, he has dedicated much of his time to daily coaching and teaching health care and manufacturing professionals how to reach challenges using the principles of Toyota kata, TWI, and lean tools. For the past 14 years, Brown has been a professor of operations management at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, teaching courses and instructional designing online courses in the industrial engineering department such as lean production and leadership principles and practices for the Master of Science in operations management degree program.
