It’s been affirming to have your emails asking where we have been for the last 3 weeks! Apart from taking a very long weekend for the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations, we have been planning a new way of working for 3D. After 3 years, Jane has been offered a great new role with Network Rail and will be leaving this Friday. A huge thanks to Jane for all she has brought during this time. We wish you well in your new role. Two new coach/facilitators will be joining us with a breadth of experience. We are already planning their diaries and will let you know more about them as soon as they have had the conversations they need to have elsewhere.
Claire writes: “I’ve just come back from Wales where I was training people in enhancing supervision skills. As in many organisations, these are people who have had one to ones themselves for many years and given them to others. Yet they have never had any training. So what we were actually doing was exploring some simple ways to have effective one to ones.
So what needs to happen to make sure that you both leave the room knowing that what needs to be done has been done?
- Ask them! What do we need to do in this [hour] to ensure that you have something to go away with?
- Think about other stakeholders: What’s a good outcome of this for your team? organisation?
- How will you know you have got what you need?
And instead of starting with what interests you, try asking
- Where shall we start?
And when you don’t know where to go next, ask them
- Where are we now? What do we need to next?
It’s simple! And it leaves the repsonsibility for the conversation in a more appropriate place. And it takes a while to adapt to working so simply. Think about it…”
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