How Do I Practice Global Listening, or the Convergence of Attention and Awareness
As we closed the Agile Coaching Circle for Europe time zones for September, this question was posted in the chat:
How do I practice global listening?
Great question, and one that we should have answered a long time ago. You see, in each of the coaching circles, we do a bit of teaching up front about some coaching basics, namely a coaching arc, powerful questions, and levels of listening. We then hold practice coaching sessions with a debrief of what happened. However, we’ve never written about practice tips or suggestions on how to work on a specific skill.
Let’s fix that, starting now.
Acts of Service, or the Doing in Our Being
To be honest, I’d not thought about being with my father in that cold, lonely hospital room until I heard Palmer talk about how a friend had helped him. That got me to thinking about how our feet are our connection to foundation, the ground on which we stand, and that led me to the questions I want to work to answer: How do we strengthen our foundations? How do we strengthen our community?
Three Reasons to Make Metaphors a Coaching Habit
This is all well and good, but why do I want to use metaphors when coaching, be it with organizations, teams, or individuals? Because of this: metaphor doesn’t just help us to describe, it helps us to understand.