Clinical coaching, peer coaching, flash coaching, rotating coaching are all techniques from professional coaching that can be diverted and used to support the team and thus create the bases of a learning organization.
Coach : origin et definition
At the origin of this discipline, there is Socrates. He practices “the birthing of spirits”, a maieutics borrowed from the vocabulary of the midwife. Through questioning, Socrates supports the individual to find the path of intelligence, of self-knowledge and of his own truth.
From the diligence coach to the sports coach, to the business coach, the common point is the support from point A to point B. The coach, by questioning invites everyone to seek their own resources beyond the obvious and resistances and to use them for the benefit of individual or collective performance.
The coach is a passer. It invites everyone to become aware and to make their choices in a self-determined way. Coaching invites each personality to deploy each of the stages of imago. Understanding step by step the different masks and collective postures that he has adopted to be recognized in a group of peers, the individual becomes aware of his true nature and chooses to be quite simply himself.
The diagram below shows the different contributions that we obtain thanks to the coach posture.
Coaching in business ?
What is coaching? Support for a person who wishes to reflect on their professional practice or support for a team that collectively wishes to improve their performance. The coach is most often contacted by the company.
Therefore, the contract will be a tripartite commitment. It will lay the foundations for support and the objectives to be achieved. A set of interviews allows the coach and his client to measure whether they can work together and begin to analyze the request as accurately as possible. Indeed, there is often a gap between the control of the organization and the request of the coachee even if, on the surface, the two seem to converge.
The gap between the expectations of the company and those of the team is still widening. The company very often claims a methodology: the team must be Agile or implement continuous improvement without however indicating the nature of the results it wishes to obtain with this methodology. The team, often more pragmatic, will need a methodology to solve a problem or a conflict.
Individual coaching
Team Coaching
In summary
Professional coaching is a tailor-made support process aimed at achieving objectives that meet both the development of the coachee and the performance needs of the company.
Coaching is based on a proven methodology. It is based on the quality of the relationship that develops, on the art of questioning and a set of specific tools.
Team coaching connects the team to its resources and potentials and then, by supporting it in its passage to action, coaching promotes its autonomy, personal and professional development for the benefit of performance in the company.
The coach is an asset in supporting teams. Alternately a coach to motivate and develop teams, he acts on individual cognitive development and provides the team with a benchmark in the face of a set of sometimes contradictory demands.
The contribution of Agile team coaching
The techniques provided by team coaching and which can be quite simply embarked on to lead communities of actions in the context of business transformations and culture change.
Clinical coaching
Clinical coaching is a support to the team given by a coach who, through his career, has himself been confronted with similar issues. Through its background and the contribution of specific tools, clinical coaching enables faster progress.
It provides immediate support to resolve a specific known problem.
This process, in Agile, is part of the toolbox of autonomous teams. Each team can offer its contribution and its know-how in the service of a learning company.
Peer Coaching
Peer coaching is a practice that is subject to mentoring. It designates an interpersonal relationship of support, a relationship of help, exchange and learning, in which an experienced person, the mentor, offers his acquired wisdom and expertise in order to promote the development of a other person or to develop the performance of a team.
To develop a posture of coach, and put in place agents of change, peer coaching promotes the emergence of a community of actions.
Flash coaching
Flash coaching is the neutral name of a wheel of life.
It makes it possible to identify time-consuming tasks in the organization of the team or its members. The team can then find, through this awareness, an efficient and pragmatic organization to free itself from tasks without added value.
This technique is an excellent preamble to start mapping the value chain.
Game coaching
Game coaching is a technique for depersonalizing, de-dramatizing a situation.
Game Coaching is a structured approach that supports teams, coaches and managers in solving complex problems, latent conflicts and innovation.
Useful resources
https://www.in-imago.com/mettre-en-place-un-coaching-clinique/