A Coaching Culture in a Mission Organization?
At the beginning of April Bertha and I, together with Ted Szymczak, traveled to Spain and facilitated another Coaching Workshop. The workshop was full, with 24 participants from six different mission agencies, serving in six different countries. A large percentage of the coaching workshop is devoted to giving the participants opportunities to practice coaching one another. And they did so with enthusiasm! With 12 separate coaching conversations happening at the same time in one room, the noise level regularly reached 90 decibels in our training room. The aim of the workshop is naturally on practicing skills, not on completing conversations, and so I regularly had to interrupt our eager coaches and ask them to move on to the next learning activity. At times, I found it very difficult to regain their attention when it was time to switch to another exercise. At one point, we even tried using a drum… Read the whole post
Ken Guenther