Reflective Entry from Abhinav Shrivastava:

To begin with, I am thankful to my peers Ingrid Elizabeth and Grichka Frachisse for being a part of this conference and making it so informative. Here is a reflective summary from me.

We planned on having a Skype call on Friday evening at 4:00P.M with our team.

We started the conference with Grichka and Ingrid playing the role of a coach and coachee respectively. I was in the observer’s position for their conversation. It was a very knowledgeable talk between the two. 

Ingrid raised some excellent points about coaching. She quoted that “A Coachee must have trust on his coach.” Also she explained the whole idea of coaching in detail, and then Grichka ended the first round of the session by asking few questions. Later, I being the observer concluded the discussion for them.

Amid of the discussion, we faced some connectivity issue with the internet. However, we were soon able to resume with the call & continue with our conversation. This time Grichka was on the coachee’s seat and I played his coach. He started assertively explaining his ideas about coaching. It took him some time to explain each point in depth. Once he was done, I was ready to question and clarify my doubts. I asked the questions as mentioned below:-

•       As mentioned by you in the blog, the study of coaching is like psychology & psychotherapy. Please justify?
•          Is coaching applicable to all levels of the organisation? What do you think?
•          As you said Coaching results are measurable. Did you mean quantitative values?
•          What does the toolbox actually mean?

Next, Ingrid played the role of a coach, and Grichka took the charge of the observer. I started explaining my thoughts about coaching. I tried to put forth all my ideas and explained the all the concepts including the 5 stages of the coaching process i.e. Listening -> Mirroring -> Summarizing -> Questioning -> Catalyzing. I mentioned explicitly about the calculation of risk in advance and the feedback process once the coaching was done. Later, Grichka summed up the dialogue between Ingrid and me. He also appreciated Ingrid for raising smart questions that had occurred to him too.

We all are satisfied with the online session and also with the way we all worked in the team.

Thanks a lot to my team members for making the conversation beneficial.

Have a nice week-end! Stay connected J