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Introduction for this Week's Assignment #4

Peer Coaching Lab

Workshop Slides

Learning Lab

Hello BVisionRYs! 

Thank you for attending and participating in our workshop (Coaching Moments); I enjoyed our learning time together! 

During the workshop, we practiced brief, focused moments where we blended essential coaching skills. Now, it is time to transition that intense, short-burst practice into the real-world rhythm of your leadership role. Remember: if you don’t put what you learned into deliberate practice, your tools will inevitably rust!

Welcome to the Safe Lab. As a Coach-Leader, moving from understanding theory to actual practice requires a "controlled laboratory" where you can experiment, make mistakes, and learn in real-time. This assignment moves you away from the "Fixer" chair and into the "Coach" chair. Within your assigned peer cohorts, you will sharpen your presence and refine your questioning techniques before applying these skills to your real-world teams.

The purpose of this Assignment: 

This assignment is designed to help you bridge the gap between theory and immediate practice by fully embracing a Growth Mindset.

A Growth Mindset is the core belief that you can achieve challenging goals and overcome obstacles not by relying solely on innate talent, but by continuously learning, applying effort, and developing new skills.

The Safe Lab serves several goals:

From Conscious to Spontaneous: Your Skill Progression

We are moving from the short, focused Coaching Moments to longer Coaching 1:1 sessions. Like all new things we learn, we follow a progression:

  1. Conscious Focus: You consciously remind yourself of the coaching steps and actively apply the models. This requires significant mental effort, and that is okay!
  2. Intentional Practice: You commit to practicing intentionally and frequently.
  3. Spontaneous Execution: With enough repetition, the skills become integrated and automatic, requiring little to no effort. This is where true coaching fluency lives.

  4. Build Muscle Memory: To practice the GROW model until the conversation flows naturally rather than feeling like a rigid checklist.

  5. Neutralize the "Advice Trap": To learn how to sit with the discomfort of not providing immediate solutions, allowing your coachee to develop their own agency.

  6. Safe Failure: To identify your personal coaching blind spots in a low-stakes environment where feedback is immediate, supportive, and focused on growth.

The process for completing this task:

To complete this assignment, follow these three steps:

  • Step A: Preparation: Review your "Coach-Leader Toolkit." Identify a real management challenge (non-confidential) that you are willing to discuss when you are in the "Coachee" role.

  • Step B: The Lab Sessions: Meet with your peer cohort. Conduct rotations where each member serves as Coach, Coachee, and Observer. We recommend a 30-minute block per person (20 minutes of coaching followed by 10 minutes of feedback).

  • Step C: Active Observation: When you are the Observer, use the provided "Observer Log" to capture powerful questions and specific coaching behaviors. This data provides the foundation for your feedback and your final submission.



The work you will submit: 

Your submission for this third assignment will be in the same Google Sheet, where you will add a new tab call it Coaching 1:1.

Instructions:

I. One (1) Coaching Session Log: Submit the completed: 1. Coachee Checklist 2. Your Reflection Log- Coach Use 3. Observer/s Log from a session where you served as the Coach.

II. Personal Transformation Reflection

A written reflection (approx. 500 words) focusing on your internal shift during this process. Address the following:

  • How has your "Drone View" changed from the start of the program to now?

  • What was your biggest challenge in avoiding the "Advice Trap"?

  • Describe the moment you felt a shift in your "Presence", how did it feel to focus entirely on the coachee’s potential rather than the problem?

Final Review: Take a moment to review all fields to ensure they are complete. The sheet saves automatically.

Submit Your Work:

  • Click the "Share" button in the top right corner of your master Google Sheet.
  • Change the sharing setting from "Restricted" to "Anyone with the link."
  • Set the access to "Editor."
  • Click "Copy link" and paste it into the Lighthouse submission portal.

Thank you for helping us having a fantastic learning environment. Our time together was enjoyable, and at BVisionRY we deeply appreciate your contributions and the level of vulnerability you brought to our learning space!