The Aware → Feel → Practise → Improve → Teach Loop
In today’s world, we always need a framing, model or loop to show how something works.
Introducing my aware, feel, practise, improve and teach loop. It is a coaching loop I have modelled to move beyond copy-paste executive coaching and put you front and centre of your learning and development, allowing you to proactively own your development.
The Loop Explained
The first part of the loop is aware - this is becoming aware of your skill(s) gap,
It is then to build a plan to feel the skill (proactively start improving on that skill until you feel the change - I create drills to ensure you feel and then improve your skills)
Practise is vital, you need to practise and keep practising, the skill will only improve with more practise and being explosed to the skill, the more you practise - the more likely it will then become muscle memory and something you can improve. There is nothing more valuable than practise and experience of the skill for your wider leadership development.
Then comes improve, you can only improve the skill once you have experience with the skill and know how it feels and how people around you reacts and the performance starts to show
Finally, you land in teach, to truly know if you have learnt it, you will need to teach it. This applies to
IQ (work skills)
EQ (emotional intelligence and skills), and
PQ (work politics and the political skills required to own your own journey and plan the corporate game)
Why This Loop Is Never Completed
This is an explainer of the loop and why it is essential to understand each part of the skill loop
Why Fear, Feedback, Skills Gaps & Performance Are Key Indicators Of Development
There are always sections coachee’s feel, fear, feedback, skills gaps and lack of performance, each step of the loop is addressing and removing sections of fear, feedback, skills gap and performance. If you are not crossing these off at each step you likely haven’t developed the skill enough or need to revisit core section of it
My Coaching Process & My Loop
This is how I run through my process, from running an exercise to identify skills gaps, to running through my methodology of creating matrixes and drills to improve these skills and then around to teaching to those around you. Drills and collaboration is key to exec coaching, especially those who have hit a performance gap, who’s company is set up to not help them develop or if you have hit the ceiling in your role and need help to move on or move across to another leadership role
