Week 1 – The Need for Change
Lesson 4 Adapt Your Style; Teach, Guide, Facilitate
When managing someone and to support your team to deliver the WHAT’s (priorities) the situational leadership model provides a great framework to adjust our style based on the person and the task.
Watch For more on this approach, see the video
A simplified version of this approach is…
Teach more telling, show, teach, demonstrate. This is outside in coaching
Guide More sharing
Facilitate More asking, guiding, self-discovery. This is inside out coaching
Activity In the table on Page 7 of your Black Workbook
When thinking about the interactions with your direct reports, mark the coaching style you use the most
Insight Did you select “teach.” I did when I first did this exercise. If you did, this is often the case because we model what we were taught i.e., the schooling system is about teaching.
If you have direct reports, plot their names where you think your team sit. Based on your current understanding of their skills and experience
Is there anyone you would like to shift? Note in the space allocated
The name of the person
The coaching style currently used or used with you
The style you want to move to
Which of your top 5 CliftonStrengths themes thatm could help you? Refer to your Page 6 of your White Workbook and the report My Signature Themes Contributions and the row Contributions.
Team Leader Debrief
That’s the end of this week’s online learning. Do you have a 15 minute debrief booked with your team leader/sponsor? Aim to answer the questions
What is one discovery you have made?
What is one thing you will do differently?
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