FROM EASY TO HARD.
FROM SLOW TO FAST.
Over the last years as a trainer, I have had the priviledge to learn from great coaches and their respective fields. All of these influences have shaped my way of conducting my work. Here is some, but not all of them.
THE BASICS.
SMART GOAL.
The best way to get ahead with a team is by defining goals; SMART goals to be exact (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timebound). This way, you establish transparancy over what you want to achieve under which conditions. It might take time at first, but once you get a hang of it, SMART goals do not only create common indicators for success, but help you to celebrate a hard day's work.
MIND THE
ROOM.
Understanding fundamentals of human psychology is critical for all interaction. One of them is the aspect of fight or flight, a response triggerd by the amygdala in our lymbic system. It all starts with the room in itself. How do room setup, sound, smell, light, and temperature affect the willingness to participate in interactions? I will make sure that these basic criteria will be met - even if that means restructuring an old Soviet style commando room in a hotel in Armenia.
FOCUS ON
TRUST.
Very little people just enter a room and are willing to share insights into their lives and jobs. When it comes to research on trust, there are several aspects one has to take into account; from the interpersonal level to the group level. By early on focussing on shared factors on a group level such as task type, task difficulty, and level of uncertainty, I design formats towards a safe setting. On an interpersonal level, I allocate elements of transparency, predictability, as well as remove unnessecary hierarchies for decision-making at eye level.
VALUE
PERSPECTIVES.
I bet that you are massively wasting money. Why? Because in every meeting you have, the extroverts have taken over your company. Consequently, you are loosing up to 50% of your knowledge, because you have no way of including your introverts into your decision making process. I do. So let's unleash the potential setting in your meeting rooms and workshops.
FAILURE
IS AN EVENT.
Zig Ziglar once said: "Failure is an event, not a person." In order to move forward, teams need to make mistakes in order to learn what not to repeat. At the same time, failing feels frustrating, because it decreases our motivation to continue. This is why all formats designed by me run with a simple formula I picked up during my first apprenticeship as a basketball coach: "From easy to hard, from slow to fast."