Î Role Play: Facilitate practice conversations as though it were between this individual and someone on their team. Ask them to practice their strategy for bringing the team member into their office, as well as the conversation that takes place there. Switch roles, so that you are the individual you are coaching, and they are the team member. After each of you have played both roles, ask the individual to share any feedback they might have for themselves, and any differences that they had noticed in your approaches to the conversation.
Suggested Learning Projects:
Î Observational Coaching: Assign your coaching target to observe the members of their team after bringing someone in to celebrate something positive. What effects does the individual notice as a result of positive reinforcement? Î Journal-Based Coaching: Ask the individual to keep a running journal through the coming weeks as their consistency and frequency and strategy for bringing people in for the good things starts to find a rhythm. They should track in their journal entries the ways that they notice the team has evolved as a result of their efforts. What do they feel they need to continue to improve? How will making those improvements benefit the team as a whole?
Supplemental Coaching Strategies:
Î 30-Second Coaching: Use positive reinforcement to reinforce positive reinforcement! Take 30 seconds of your day to verbally acknowledge efforts and/or improvements made by the individual in their strategy for bringing people in for the good things. Be specific in sharing the actions taken by this person that you have observed, and how those actions are appreciated.
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