One-to-one coaching
A path for one person, with the same logic as team alignment
Not all the work on alignment concerns a group. Sometimes the person who has to find their course again is a single one: whoever leads the team, whoever is changing role, whoever finds themselves deciding without being clear on what basis.
One-to-one coaching follows the same principle as the team path, understanding where you are, deciding where you want to get to, and building the bridge between the two, applied to a person instead of a group.
The seven phases
1. Where we are. The starting point gets examined on several levels: professional, financial, physical, emotional. Without this step everything else is guesswork.
2. Where you want to get to. The direction matters more than the destination: what’s needed is an understanding of the route, not only of the end point.
3. The resources. The beliefs and the competences it takes to cross that bridge. Either one without the other isn’t enough.
4. The motivations. The reasons people do things they wouldn’t normally do. It’s the fuel, and it has to be named explicitly.
5. The interference. Obstacles and difficulties get named and taken apart together with the coach, instead of being gone around.
6. The actions. You decide what to actually do, not what it would be desirable to do.
7. Timings and checks. Deadlines get set and the course gets monitored with periodic follow-ups, so you find out in time whether the direction was the right one.
Individual alignment: what it is
It consists of getting clear with yourself about some characteristics of your own mind and your own individuality that have an impact on your work, and aligning them with where the company stands.
It starts from the capacity for self-observation, meaning the capacity to develop and clarify your own ideas and ambitions, to share them, to translate them into actions and to get other people committed to making them happen.
It’s the same operation we carry out on a group in Alignment, done here on one person.
Why it works
Because it’s a generative competence: it stimulates thinking and problem solving instead of supplying answers. It’s aimed at someone who wants to reach a higher level of performance, of learning or of satisfaction, and it works from there rather than from a problem to repair.
How long a session lasts
From 45 minutes to an hour, depending on what the person needs.
Who you work with
Giovanni Gambardella
A graduate in Economics from Bocconi, he worked for years in multinationals including HP-Compaq, alongside numerous engagements as an external consultant. A master trainer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming since 2002, he teaches and consults on communication and organisational behaviour.
He has delivered around a thousand days of classroom work, consulting and outdoor training, involving several thousand participants, in Italian and in English. He is the author of Time Flies and the Pilot Is You, first in its category on Amazon.
Not sure where to start? The Team Alignment Check is a free test: twenty-one questions across seven dimensions. It tells you where your team is already aligned and where it isn’t, and the report arrives by email.
Let’s talk about your next team building
You don’t need to have picked a format yet. Tell us what you want your team to take home, how many of you there are and where you’ll be, and we’ll do the rest: within 24 hours you get a considered proposal for your case, with the formats that hold up against your numbers, and what each one leaves the team the day after.
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