Role Leadership Coaching

This peer-coaching exercise helps you to get a clear understanding of your role on the team. The set of questions can also be used in a self-coaching setting and help to form a sense of self-trust and ownership.

When to use this tool?

This exercise helps you to find clarity in the roles in your team by reflecting on its responsibility and scope. It challenges you to take more ownership of your work. This exercise provides a framework to be used in pairs or alone to step into full ownership and get a grip on the role.

How does it work?
This exercise can be done individually or in pairs. When you choose the peer-coaching variation you will coach each other on how to take on more leadership in each of your roles.

Create Role Awareness.
Get pen and paper and answer these questions on your own, before you move into either peer or self-coaching part.

Check each of the roles that you’re assigned and ask yourself:
What’s the purpose of this role?
What accountability is connected to it?

Then select a role that is challenging or unclear to you and ask yourself:
What are the metrics you report on?
What work do you do in this role (actions and projects)?
Which other roles does it interact with?

Coach each other.
Form pairs with one of you being the coach and the other one the coachee. Switch roles after 20 minutes.

For the coachee: Explain the chosen role shortly then answer the questions from your coach.
For the coach: Read the coaching questions before you start. Listen actively and ask the questions to help your coachee find clarity.

The Role leadership coaching questions are structured in 3 parts:
1) Reflective questions that help you look back on how you led in this role.
2) Forward-looking questions that help you create an action plan.
3) Learning questions that trigger you to articulate what you learn in this exercise about your leadership style.

1) Reflective questions:
Why is this role relevant for the organization? What would colleagues or customers say about it?
What have you done recently in this role that you are proud of?
What is your focus in this role at the moment?
How do you measure success in this role?
What are you currently not doing in this role that someone else might do?
What do you need to execute well in this role? (Think resources, information, timing, skills, knowledge)

2) Forward-looking questions:
What does success in the future of this role look like? Which goals would you like to have reached at a specific moment in the future?
What would you like to learn or do to improve yourself in this role?
What can you do in this role to get more fulfilment from it?
What are your recurring activities? How could you organize these more effectively?
What are the relevant projects and outcomes that you can work towards? How do you prioritize them?

3) Learning Questions:
What did you learn from this conversation?
What will you do differently? What actions will you take?

Share your experience (optional).
You can close this exercise with a sharing round in the team where everybody gets the chance to share their experience and what they’re taking away from it.

What do you need to get started?
Pen and Paper or something else to answer the question in written form. You could also allow the pairs to find their own space for this exercise like outdoors or in breakout rooms. You can print the template for each team member.

This exercise is for:

• Team size: 2 to 13+

• Team development phase: Storming, norming, performing

• TEAM framework: Roles

• Difficulty: average

• Duration: 45-90 min

Related Tools in teambooster.app

You can find these related tools, and many more, in the Teambooster App. Go to teambooster.app, create a free account and explore if it’s something for your team as well.

Source: Exercise written by Teambooster.