On the Coaching Café Podcast this week we are looking forward to continuing the momentum of focussing on the top 10 practices of the world’s best coaches from What Makes a Great Coach?
This week we turned our attention to the brilliant clip from the hit Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso (played by Jason Sudeikis). Ted is shooting darts in a high-stakes match against Ruppert, and just before he hits the winning bull-eye he talks about how people have always under-estimated others including him, but he focusses on ‘be curious, not judgemental.’
‘If they were curious’, Ted continues with his story, ‘they would ask a lot of questions like “have you played a lot of darts Ted?”. To which I would have answered, “yes Sir, every Sunday afternoon at a sports bar with my Father, from the age 10 to the age 16, until he passed away.”’
As coaches, we know that curiosity is built into everything we do.
And many of us are coaching managers in the workplace to be curious and ask questions when a team member presents a problem, rather than jumping in and solving the problem straight away.
But as we discovered, for many people curiosity doesn’t come easily. So join us for the Coaching Café Podcast where we ask:
•What questions create a culture of curiosity in the workplace?
•How do we spark curiosity in others?
•How can we refine our own practice of curiosity?
What Makes a Great Coach? gives us the opportunity to reflect on our own coaching practices. So join Emma and Natalie for this Coaching Café this week where we share the research and stories around curiosity from the book. And most importantly key questions that we can all use to reflect on how we bring curiosity to our coaching practice.
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