Experiential Leadership Workshop Program - Facilitation

In one of the rare moments, I get to experience a senior leader opening up to share about a huge mistake made during a high stakes global project. The entire room was immediately uplifted by the story that was told. That set the stage for a week of powerful learning. 

I had a fantastic time of facilitating the last day of the week long learning with Ryan and Alice. 

The goal of the day was to help the leaders put their skills into a time of practice. We created a sandbox to achieve the purpose.

Through the experiential leadership labs and role plays, the leaders get to apply all the knowledge and skills they have learned over the week. Many get to practice navigating difficult conversations, practice noticing their overdone strengths under pressure and practice balancing care for subordinates and being accountable for performance. 

Many realized how difficult it is to listen, to stay open and curious under pressure. The tension experienced brought out so much learning. The debrief was very rich and extremely insightful.

I’m so glad that the design created the heat for the participants. We simply shared our observations on how different ones showed up. 

My goal was to help the leaders become better observers of themselves in how they show up and I felt I achieved that. 

Looking forward to the rest of the sessions scheduled for the year!

Victor Seet • World & Singapore's 1st Gold Awarded Gallup CliftonStrengths Coach • Newfield Certified Ontological Coach • ICF Coach (ACTC, PCC)

Ontological Team Coaching - Motion Events and Spaces Team

After a series of new hires, I had the privilege to start a series of team coaching sessions for the Events & Spaces team for Motion for Impact. As the in-house team coach, this is something I really enjoyed doing.

As part of the ongoing Newfield Ontological Team Coaching program, I also had the privilege of getting a mentor coach give feedback to my team coaching sessions to get even sharper in my team coaching practices.

As an ontological practitioner, the team coaching practice and feedback is extremely valuable as I get to observe my own ontological coaching and notice my blindspots.

The team coaching sessions really helped me to see how powerful a team can be when there is high trust and openness with one another and how team members get to be highly performing and highly collaborative.

Victor Seet • World & Singapore's 1st Gold Awarded Gallup CliftonStrengths Coach • Newfield Certified Ontological Coach

Discover Your Cutting Edge - Young Adults Experiential Workshop

Organized by Metropolitan YMCA Singapore and sponsored by Hong Kong Land, I had the privilege to facilitate a youth and young adults career workshop with the theme on mental well-being.

Participants were 21-30 years old.

Using the ontological approach, I designed the workshop around the idea of building Self-Confidence and covered 2 key components:
1. Knowing Your Cutting Edge

2. Expanding your capacity for discomfort.

I contextualised the applications towards career development and there were lots of great questions and engagement. There were an experiential experience designed to help the young adults understand how they behave in discomfort. That was the highlight and I’m glad that many walked away understanding what it takes to build self-confidence.

Victor Seet • World & Singapore's 1st Gold Awarded Gallup CliftonStrengths Coach • Newfield Certified Ontological Coach

Discover Your Cutting Edge - Youth & Young Adults Experiential Workshop

Organized by Metropolitan YMCA Singapore and sponsored by Hong Kong Land, I had the privilege to conduct a youth and young adults leadership workshop with the theme on mental well-being.

Participants were 16-25 years old.

Using the ontological approach, I designed the workshop around the idea of building Self-Confidence and covered 2 key components:
1. Knowing Your Cutting Edge

2. Expanding your capacity for discomfort.

Glad to see that the youth and young adults found the workshop engaging and there was a high level of participation.

Victor Seet • World & Singapore's 1st Gold Awarded Gallup CliftonStrengths Coach • Newfield Certified Ontological Coach

Discover Your Cutting Edge - Youth Experiential Workshop

Organized by Metropolitan YMCA Singapore and sponsored by Hong Kong Land, I had the privilege to conduct a youth development workshop with the theme on mental well-being.

Participants were 16-20 years old.

Using the ontological approach, I designed the workshop around the idea of building Self-Confidence and covered 2 key components:
1. Knowing Your Cutting Edge

2. Expanding your capacity for discomfort.

Glad to see that the youth found the workshop engaging and there was a high level of participation.

Victor Seet • World & Singapore's 1st Gold Awarded Gallup CliftonStrengths Coach • Newfield Certified Ontological Coach

Performance Coaching for Results

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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