1. LEAD for coaching visit.
Trainers Manual
Some tips that might help you:
- Follow the process but use the delivery style you’re most comfortable
with.
- Connect and observe the team before the leadership coaching.
- Try customizing your coaching to what the team REALLY needs.
- It is ok to over communicate what you think is essential.
- Listening is super important
- Do not use sarcasm or cynicism to covey your point.
- Focus on the desired behaviours.
- Connect to the LC’s reality and keep give relevant examples throughout
the process!
- Leave them with three key messages that will help them through their
leadership journey in the year.
Behaviours that will help you:
- Cooperative and Empathetic
- Good listener
- Goal orientation
- Focus on the future of the team with a strong sense of optimism
2. Part 1:
Self-awareness and Building inter-personal relationships on the team.
2 Personality tests:
- Strategic Leadership styles – leadership test
- Personality test –
- LCPs and EBs do the test as a pre-assignment before the visit. The tests will
be e-mailed to them.
- Reason for doing a leadership + personality test is to understand each
other in different ways.
Questions to ask just the LCP (without the EB around) for his/her leadership journal:
- What are the leadership styles of your EB members?
- What behaviours would you use to improve your relationships with them?
- What behaviours would you avoid using?
- What do you think you could learn from this? How will this help you evolve as an
individual and a leader?
Questions to ask the EB for their leadership journal:
- What is your peers’ leadership style? What would you start stop continue (in
terms of behaviours to maintain good relationships with them?
- What will you avoid doing?
- What is your LCPs leadership style? What will you do to improve your
relationship with him/her? What will you avoid doing?
- How will this help you evolve as an individual, team leader and team player?
- What does this teach you about your role as a leader in the LC?
- Throughout the process, have healthy discussions with the team if they are
confused or want to discuss something.
- Ask them to put down their strengths and focus on them.
- “It’s all about strengthening your strengths and weakening your weaknesses.”
End with: how will using these behaviours help you build your team? And
ultimately improve performance?
- Here is where you bring in their LC culture and performance/goals into the
picture. Talk about how a team that understands each other and is working
towards evolving themselves constantly and continuously performing will
always do much better. And create more leaders.
- Connect this activity to their ultimate goal, focus programme and their mission.
4. LEAD – General LCs:
- Building high performance teams.
WHY?
This is going to be their biggest challenge as an incoming EB.
Once they understand each other better, understand how to build relationships and
create their vision and mission.
Next step:
Cover story
Cover Story is a game about pure imagination. The purpose is to think expansively
around an ideal future state for the organization; it’s an exercise in visioning. The object
of the game is to suspend all disbelief and envision a future state that is so stellar that it
landed your organization on the cover of a well-known magazine. The players must
pretend as though this future has already taken place and has been reported by the
mainstream media.
Cover – states the clear mission and vision.
Headers – reveal what the story is about
Sidebars – include parts of the report/ focus programmes with goals.
Quotes – testimonials about the accomplishment from anyone imaginable
5. Images – pictures that support the cover story – Key milestones which would be the
major projects for the EB team.
Brainstorms – used for writing down ideas before starting the activity
After taking 5 minutes for players to silently ponder where they want the company to go,
have the team members collaborate with their groups and fill in the components of their
charts. This can last 30 – 45 minutes.
(Print out a copy of this or take a chart paper for the EBM to ensure that you have the
right resources for the activity)
- Once it is done, discuss the activity the outcome with the EB.
- Ask them to put down in their leadership journal:
1. How will the results from the previous tests and desired behaviours of
leadership contribute to this cover story?
2. What are the 3 key challenges they will face?
Put down a list of challenges:
Prospective answers will be:
- Getting people on board and building high performance teams
- Connecting people to a common purpose
- Culture
- Etc etc
ALL this will boil down to building high performance teams.
Objectives of the session:
- How to create high performing steps
- Why it is so important
- Structures/processes for the same
- Constant connection of high performance teams to goals
- Desired leadership behaviours, which go into the leadership journal.
Session on the PPT, which is attached to this package.
