The Bright Morning Podcast with Elena Aguilar
It’s possible for every coaching conversation to build connection and spark change, and Elena Aguilar will show you how. Elena Aguilar is one of education’s leading voices on coaching. Educators around the globe use her research-based coaching method to transform their organizations. Her company, Bright Morning, brings the ideas in her best-selling books to life by providing world-class professional development to mission-driven leaders. In The Bright Morning Podcast, Elena teaches you how to make every conversation count by demonstrating Transformational Coaching conversations. Every episode tackles a pressing coaching challenge. Resistance. Racism. Burnout. Overwhelm. Struggling new teachers. You’ll find it all here. If you’re ready to thrive in your work, listen in. New episodes drop every Monday. To learn more about Elena, go deeper into every episode, find the resources and tools she mentions, or join one of her workshops, check out https://brightmorningteam.com.
The Bright Morning Podcast with Elena Aguilar
Ep 124: When Things Don’t Go According to Plan
There’s 20 minutes left in your session and you have an hour's worth of content, what do you do?
Adaptive facilitation is the key to staying calm and skillfully adjusting course when things don’t go according to plan. On today’s episode, Elena brings you along on her adaptive facilitation journey and provides two sets of reflection questions to support you on your own. If you lead teams, groups or meetings, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.
Mentioned in this episode:
- The PD Book
- Free workshop with Elena on Facilitation Adaptively if you pre-order The PD Book. Learn more at brightmorningteam.com/the-pd-book-pre-order-bonus/
- The Art of Coaching Workbook (retired July 2024 with the release of Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching)
- Two sets of reflection questions:
- What comes up for you when things don’t go according to plan? [Tip: consider multiple examples]
- What feelings and thoughts come up?
- What’s the story that you tell? About yourself? About others in the room?
- When you facilitate a meeting or PD session, how do you gather information in the moment about how the folks are doing that you are there to serve?
- What you see? What you hear? What you feel? What you intuit?
- What comes up for you when things don’t go according to plan? [Tip: consider multiple examples]
Opportunities for continued learning:
- Read The PD Book (Elena’s newest book, co-written with Lori Cohen)
- Attend Artful Design and Facilitation
- Attend Artful Design and Facilitation Masterclass (retired workshop)
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