Coaching practices for Reflective Practitioner Management

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• My team lives in pure execution mode, head down, one fire after another, and so do our meetings
• I finish a session and just move on without ever sitting down to name what actually worked and what didn’t
• I keep meaning to step back and take stock, but reflection always loses to whatever’s urgent
• In these conversations I fire off question after question like an interrogation, and the other person closes up rather than opening
• I replay what happened and I only ever see it from my own side

Practices that may help

1. Create thinking space rather than filling every meeting with content
   The most valuable thing a coaching manager provides is protected time and space for reflection — which most teams never get.
   The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm
2. Debrief each session with a structured reflection
   Write a three-question debrief right after practice to convert experience into learning.
   Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability
3. Build a weekly reflection ritual so the cycle runs regularly
   Schedule a fixed reflection window so the four stages happen as a routine, not an afterthought.
   Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice
4. Use OARS to make the person feel understood
   Open questions, Affirmations, Reflections, Summaries — the four core micro-skills.
   Motivational Interviewing, Made Practical
5. Observe from multiple angles before drawing conclusions
   Deliberately take different perspectives on the experience before deciding what it means.
   Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice
6. Reflective Listening: The Carl Rogers Method
   Reflective listening, as developed by Carl Rogers, means feeding back what a person said at the level of meaning and feeling — not parroting words — to communicate understanding and allow them to hear themselves. It is the most common thread across effective therapy, coaching, and conflict resolution; the evidence for empathic listening as a therapeutic factor is among the most replicated in psychotherapy research, though effect sizes vary.
7. Use simple reflections to confirm you heard correctly
   Repeat the key word or phrase back as a gentle check, not as a question.
   Reflective Listening: The Carl Rogers Method
8. Use a challenge-calibration partner or coach
   Have a more skilled observer set the challenge level — your own assessment is biased.
   Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability
9. Make feedback flow in both directions
   Give timely, specific feedback — and ask for it on your own management.
   Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical
10. Run a Friday Reflection
    Each Friday, review what you accomplished, what you learned, and what you would do differently.
    Getting Results the Agile Way (AGS), Made Practical

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