Running short on time in your coaching conversations? This episode is for you. Elena, playing the role of a school-based coach, demonstrates how to deftly navigate through the three phases of a coaching conversation—beginning, middle, and end—using skills from her “Arc of a Coaching Conversation” Skill Session. Set your timer and listen in to learn how to open and close your meetings in just five minutes.
Notable Moments:
00:00 Introduction to the Bright Morning Podcast
00:56 Demonstration Setup: Coaching Conversation Phases
02:30 Role-Playing the Opening of the Coaching Conversation
09:46 Debriefing the Role-Play
15:52 Role-Playing the Closing of the Coaching Conversation
23:20 Final Thoughts and Resources
Opportunities for continued learning:
- Become a Bright Morning Member
- Read Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching
- Learning Library and Transformational Coaching PLC: September Skill Session “The Arc of a Coaching Conversation”
- Learning Library and Transformational Coaching PLC: Coaching Demonstration Vault.
- Watch coaching demonstrations, including a full video of the conversation heard in this episode, as well as an alternative version where Elena navigates a client who is emotionally activated and doesn’t want to transition to the next phase of the coaching conversation
- Attend The Art of Transformational Coaching workshop with Elena
- Become a Friend of the Podcast
Reflection questions:
- What moves did Elena make to build trust and connection between her and her client?
- What moves did you hear Elena make that built teacher agency?
- How did this demonstration compare to how you open and close your conversations?
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