ICF requires certified coaches to continue their learning and practice so I am delighted to complete a Performance Coaching Workshop last weekend by The Coach Partnership. It was fun being a learner again!
I’m also delighted that I get to apply what I’ve learnt immediately as a team coach at Motion: For Impact. So straight away, I did some performance coaching over the week to help team members win at their game! I love the simplicity of this approach.
What’s performance coaching❓
It’s a type of coaching that aims to help individuals win and achieve their goal. The foundation of Performance Coaching is the trust and care between coach and coachee.
It’s a great set of skills for managers who are looking to reduce the reliance of the team on the manager. It is a practice that yields sustainable results.
✅ Staff grow their skills and deliver the required results. They grow their confidence.
✅ Managers benefit in the long run with a more motivated and skillful team and having more time freed up as a result.
✅ The coach helps coachees clarify specifics about their goal. Often, the goal isn’t really that clear.
✅ The coach drills the coachees on their commitment and why they want the results. The coachee might possibly fail at the initial stages. Knowing the purpose strengthens the ability to be resilient.
✅ The coach holds the coachees accountable for the results they want to create for themselves. It’s easy to not hit the goal and find excuses. Having someone to hold a person accountable strengthens the will to succeed.
❌What Performance Coaching is not:
It is not a last ditch intervention to help uncommitted staff.
It is not a tool for managers to achieve their own agenda.
It is not sports coaching. No tactical plans are given by the coach.
🏅What has been my personal learning?
A performance coach needs both the supporting and challenging muscles to serve the client. I realized my challenging muscle is much stronger than my supporting one. So I am now more conscious in my coaching practice.
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Values Workshop - Culture Building
Together with my Chief Experience Officer, Hajar, I co-created and facilitated a values workshop for the Motion team. We spent a few months planning for this values workshop as part of a larger frame of building and strengthening the culture for the existing team.
The day went very well. I led an icebreaker that had so much laughter and I loved it! The people were very engaged and by the time the workshop ended, we had many meaningful conversations among the different ones.
Victor Seet • World & Singapore's 1st Gold Awarded Gallup CliftonStrengths Coach • Newfield Certified Ontological Coach
CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder) Leadership Workshop Program - International Group (STB)
What a joy to be back at Singapore Tourism Board. This is the 17th session I have done for STB and it continues to be a joy to be trusted.
We covered the full 34 CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder) results of the whole leadership team for the international group in STB. This leadership team is so much fun to be around. They were warm, participative and eager to learn.
Integrating ontological approach, we explored the strengths mindset and discussed the case for strengths. We also discussed in depth the diversity of strengths represented and how each person leads differently.
Felt totally at ease and at home with this group of leaders! Thankful that I could connect with Serene Tan again. In the 17 sessions I have conducted over the years, she has probably been in four of those. So great to connect with her again.
Victor Seet • World & Singapore's 1st Gold Awarded Gallup CliftonStrengths Coach • Newfield Certified Ontological Coach • ICF Coach (ACTC, PCC)
CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder) Workshop Program and Ontological Team Coaching - Singapore Public Service
This program felt like the perfect case study for me as I look to create one that brings the best of what I have to meet the needs of organisations and teams.
It was a very fulfilling day spent with a group of seven directors. It was fulfilling for two reasons.
1. The group was very engaged, participative and took risks to learn.
2. The designed format of a Cliftonstrengths workshop followed by an ontological team coaching to focus on application went very well.
Objectives of the session:
1. For each leader to gain greater self awareness and dive deeper into their individual strengths and weaknesses.
2. For the team to deepen their level of trust collectively.
3. For the team to understand the strengths and aspirations of each person (particularly the team leader) to better collaborate, and jointly make decisions together.
Brief Summary of the Day:
MORNING: We started with a CliftonStrengths discovery workshop, covering the full 34 CliftonStrengths results. There were lots of conversations and activities to help the team engage with each other in a very light-hearted way. There were lots of laughter and many great questions were asked. The activities were specifically designed to help each leader listen to how each other think, feel and behave. This set up the context for the team to build trust and to go deeper with each other as the day moves along.
AFTERNOON: We started with a focus on application. I did some ontological team coaching. I started by inviting each team member to share openly about how they felt about the team dynamics and trust level of the team. I also invited the team leader to share the aspirations for the team.
As we move along, there was an opportunity to create a shift in the team’s mood, I Invited the team to take some risks together. We did some trust building activities and gave each other real time feedback. The mood of the team started to shift and the conversations went deeper. Team members started to make requests to each other to help with uncovering leadership blindspots and to grow together. One team member summed up the discussion - “we have never had this kind of conversation with each other in a team setting. Let’s continue to open up, take risks and build deeper trust with each other.”
We rounded the day by going back to CliftonStrengths and ended off with conversations of how we want to leverage each person’s strengths. There was a deeper sense of respect and camaraderie created by the end of the day.
Overall workshop ratings (7 participants): 9.1/10
Feedback given by Team Leader: “I really benefitted from understanding my team members better and having the opportunity to articulate what I hope to see in the org and the support I need. Victor is a great facilitator, put us at ease quickly and allowed us to share safely and honestly.”
Victor Seet • World & Singapore's 1st Gold Awarded Gallup CliftonStrengths Coach • Newfield Certified Ontological Coach • ICF - ACTC and PCC
Team Coaching (Strategic Leadership Retreat)
I had a full day of leadership strategic session offsite recently. It was a refreshing time. I facilitated a team check-in. I helped set up a team agreement. I offered some perspectives and facilitated some discussions. When different leaders facilitated, I observed the team dynamics and intervene when a shift was needed.
What was new wasn’t what I did.
What was new was how I did it. I did it from a role of an in-house team coach.
It was a very different way of being as compared to being an external facilitator.
I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
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CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder) Team Building Workshop Program - KL Malaysia for Finance Leaders
Flew from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFInder) Workshop for regional Finance Leaders from Havi Logistics.
I love what I saw - a group of finance people with a great diversity of strengths. This was my 1st overseas offsite workshop for 2023 and that added to my joy. I spent a day in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and enjoyed the session thoroughly. The group was bubbly and enthusiastic to learn. The Team Lead shared with great openness about her strengths and weaknesses. It was a memorable time for me. Hope to be able to conduct more of such sessions!