Positivity- Constructive Interaction- Opening Up Around Judgements

Opening Up Around Judgements
Team Practice to build Constructive Interaction
For ongoing coaching

The purpose of this practice is to build upon what you have discovered in your Team Diagnostic with regards to Constructive interaction and to judgements in your relationships. The judgements arise without warning and then it is a matter of how we respond to them …mentally, emotionally and behaviourally. This practice will help your team cultivating a constructive response to judgements.

Please engage in this practice for the next month and see how it contributes to your team day to day interactions.

During meetings
At any time during a meeting or conversations, when you experiment a judgement occurring within the members of team, please PAUSE IN THAT VERY MOMENT and do the following
1. Acknowledge the presence of this judgment and where it is directed (the situation, the team, one or more members or the team, people outside the team, etc.)
2. Open your heart and your mind around the judgement itself, and around wherever the judgement is directed.
3. Continue engaging and have this openness guide your listening and speaking:
• What are we discovering/learning?
• How is this informing us?
• What needs to be said in this moment?
• How can we express what needs to be said such it is done so with integrity, honour and respect?

Before our coaching session
Please take 15-20 minutes together to scan back to your month to learn from how things went around judgements. (You may want to write down some observations to bring in our next coaching session)

1. In what meetings did we follow the practice outlined above?
• How did it go?
• How did we feel doing it?
• How did we feel after the meeting was completed?

2. In what meetings did we not follow the practice outlined above?
• Why is that?
• How did we feel after the meeting was completed?

Hélène Morais, PCC
Inspired by Integral Coaching Canada Coaching Practices. 2016-07-15