Team Thinking Asia

Thanks to KBZMS General Insurance in Myanmar for asking Team Thinking Asia to design and deliver a practical workshop for their HR team yesterday, to explore Feedback and Coaching Skills.

HR departments often have to deal with many demands and requests from all directions and sometimes those conversations can be challenging.

We mixed relevant HR case studies with role plays (HR role, Manager Role and Observer), plus coaching practice around real goals or challenges.

Thanks to Zayar Ye Lin Tun for inviting us along, for everyone’s energy and willingness to practice and to our trainer Su Htra for your help during the day.

Thanks to the Senior Management Team from Dai-ichi Life Insurance Myanmar for joining in with group coaching sessions today, run by Ian Davies, one of our Directors and accredited Coach.

These are part of the on-going leadership development programme that our Team Thinking Asia team are running for the group. We’ve spent some time last quarter exploring coaching skills and today was another opportunity to bring a real life dilemma, challenge or goal to the session. Ian wasn’t coaching the group this time, purely facilitating them coaching one another, a great opportunity to practice, discuss, gain feedback and take away some insights to use when coaching their own team members. We had most people in one meeting room in Yangon, with some in other locations and myself in Phnom Penh.

Group coaching sessions can help people to learn through shared experience, hearing how peers handle similar challenges, normalising difficulties (“it’s not just me”), sparking new ideas and perspectives and building collective problem-solving skills (this programme is all about collaboration too). Peer learning often makes insights stick far more than individual coaching alone.

One more session with another group tomorrow morning and then we will run the session again in a few weeks.