76530 - Strategic Management Coaching Laboratory

Learning outcomes

This course is rescricted Clamda-International Management students.
Awareness and enhancement of individual “strengths” and "areas for improvement"; listening capacity; hints on “natural roles” as a team-player for each participant; conflict management approaches; public speaking.

Course contents

Session I (3 h)

-       Welcome and supervisor /coach introduction

Group rules

-       Collection of students expectations and introduction-game

INVOLVED ABILITIES: public speaking and listening capacity

GROUP PERSPECTIVE: a starting point in setting a shared identity among different individuals given the fact of “doing things following a given method”

-       Assessment delivery: introduction of the assessment tool thanks to which each participant will have a better understanding of his/her individual cultural orientations and attitudes. This will be helpful in the following team interactions (30 min)

Instructions on how to take the assessment and following steps (feedback on the most striking dimensions /attitudes which catch their attention)

-       Meeting closure & farewell (20 min)

Feedbacks on the session and expectations

 

Session II (3h)

-       Welcome & Warm-up: Where do we start today?

-       As previously agreed, each participant choose an interesting (new, not expected) element to share with the group. Selection criterion: element of personal strength, something the participant considers one of his/her “plus”.

INVOLVED ABILITIES: public speaking, listening capacity, awareness and enhancement of individual “strengths”

GROUP PERSPECTIVE: shared identity among different individuals given the fact of “doing things following a given method”, sharing individual talent and personal “plus” for the group benefit.

-       Lecture (20 min): What is a group definition and what is a group for?

     Different types of group

     Eventual: meaningful movie trailer

-       Meeting closure & farewell

Feedbacks on the session and expectations

 

Session III (3 h)

-       Welcome & Warm-up

-       Group brainstorming: what do we need to work as a group

INVOLVED ABILITIES: public speaking, listening capacity

GROUP PERSPECTIVE: shared identity, individual contribution, process perspective

POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS: hints on “natural roles” as a team-player for each participant, conflict management approaches

-       Working on teams constitution

The supervisor/coach split the group into 5-6 working teams (taking also into account assessment reports and class activity observation)

-       Case study presentation: introduction of the business case which will be the object of their team work + LEARNING ORGANIZATION PROCESS Assignment

-       Time for team arrangements and agenda setting & farewell

START TALKING ABOUT TEAM GROUNDRULES

 

Session IV (3 h)

-       Welcome & Warm-up

-       Lecture:              A group is always a team?

                   Phases a team goes through during its “life”                                          Roles and dynamics inside a team

Questions: Which is your natural role? Which is the role you're playing in your current team?

INVOLVED ABILITIES: fix some experiential learning with a few theoretical points of reference

-       Team brainstorming: what phase are we living right now?

-       Time for teamwork and agenda setting

Coach giving support to each group

-       Farewell in the team context: take-home message and next steps as a team

 

 

Session V (3 h)

-       Welcome & Warm-up

-       A Business Case: Testimonials from the Business World and/or brainstorming on Leadership & Teamwork

-       Group brainstorming: how important is the team objective? How important are team members? How does an effective team take its decisions?

-       Time for teamwork and agenda setting

Coach giving support to each group

-       Meeting closure & farewell

Feedbacks on the session

Session VI (3 h)        

-       Welcome & Warm-up

-       Teamwork finalized, presentation refined under coaches supervision and rehearsal for presentation

-       Team discussion on their organizational learning

-       Farewell in the team context: take-home message and next steps as a team

 

                       

Session VII (open to guests and stakeholders intervention) (3 h)

-       Welcome & Warm-up: introduction to team work presentation

-       Business case presentation in plenary session (20 min x 6= 180 min)

INVOLVED ABILITIES: public speaking, team management

POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS: working out of the “comfort zone”, team and strategies adopted to face the challenge

-       Feedbacks on the part of guests  and supervisors  

-       Meeting closure & farewell

Feedbacks on presentations from participants' perspective

 

 

Closing Session – Coaching Lab Debriefing (2 h)

-    Welcome & Warm-up

-    Team discussion on their performance and experience; supervisor'  structured feedbacks to presenters

-       Supervisor sums-up and returns to participants what the group shared along the tutorial: expectations, brainstorming, theory, experiential learnings and “ah-ah moments” (deliverable in PPT format for participants)

-       Invitation to go back to their own individual assessment

Goal is point out “how did this experience impact on my orientations and attitudes, what did I discover?” so to fix the attained individual objectives and areas which need to be further investigated (teams and group are adjourning and we go back to the individual dimension)

-       Meeting closure

Sharing feedbacks arising from the point above

-       Participants' evaluation questionnaire & suggestions

-       Farewell

Readings/Bibliography

Clutterback, David - Team Coaching

de Bono, Edward - Six Thinking Hats

Teaching methods

Interactive laboratory, where students' contributions as well as testimonials' witnessing their experience will enrich your experience "on the job".

Assessment methods

This course is rescricted Clamda-International Management students.
Real life business case/project-work with presentation in front of the company - pass or fail

Assessment for students not attending classes:

not foreseen

Teaching tools

Experiential teamwork learning with a few theoretical points of reference delivered in class and shared with students; brainstorming; project work; feedback, both on individual and team basis.

Office hours

See the website of Federica Pinotti