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By Rob Abbanat

ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

Spring 2020

Use these Engagement Activities to help your coachee to learn, practice and embrace what you cover in the live coaching sessions.

Engagement Activity
Context

Meet with the safety mangers and give them more encouragement and direction.

Coachee’s goal is to develop a communication style that is highly effective with her direct reports.

Identify 3 senior colleagues whose perception matters to your advancement, and invite at least one for a 1-1 coffee meeting.

Coachee wants to develop better internal networking skills as part of a goal related to career advancement.

Download/create account with Evernote. Find template for dally to-dos.

Coachee’s goal relates to improved timemanagement behaviors.

Clearly present your ideas in the weekly business meeting.

Coachee's goal is to improve communication skills.

Promise very little things every day, make it happen, prove to himself he can make it happen.

Coachee's goal is to improve ability to project confidence and a global image.

Invite team members to a cup of coffee or a very casual conversation at lunch time to ask for their feedback.

Coachee’s goal is to improve relationship with his team.

Summarize the content of our session in a written form.

Coachee to create a record of time spent with the coach.

Write down, in order of priority, the questions that arose during the session.

Coachee to create a record of time spent with the coach.

Summarize the content of our session in a written form. Call it journaling, call it whatever. It’s nice to create a “track record“ of the time with a Coach.

A good, general-purpose engagement activity.

After summarizing the content of the session, write down any questions that come to mind.

A good, general-purpose engagement activity.

Invite your team members for a coffee to solicit their feedback.

Coachee’s goal relates to an improved relationship with and among her team members.

Schedule and conduct a coaching conversation with a direct report who has been struggling with managerial challenges and team performance.

Coachee’s goal is to role-model effective coaching that helps his team members become more motivated, productive and accountable.

Participate in one networking activity. Actively listen to people you meet, show real interest in their knowledge and expertise. Practice exchange of views and opinions.

Coachee is working on building executive presence.

Schedule a casual meeting with the CFO of the business unit to discuss the hard and soft skills that are critical for his role.

Coachee is preparing for a change of role, from Controller to CFO of a business unit.

Read at least 3 market reports from trusted sources. Summarize the key points as they relate to market direction.

Coachee’s goal relates to looking forward; developing an understanding of key drivers for their business (not just looking at the financial numbers, i.e. looking backward).