Experience, key competencies and feedback. The ‘Observed Sessions’ workshop held on Monday 29th May at the European School of Coaching Madrid, led by coaches and facilitators Rosa Zappino and Cristina Martínez Aragón, was an opportunity to witness the art of live coaching.
The analysis of a coaching session is one of the facilitation tools that EEC routinely employs, given its powerful learning potential, and which, in this case, was masterfully carried out by Cristina Martínez Aragón.
Rosa Zappino kicked off the activity, which was attended by over 15 people, explaining the role of the coach who offers feedback, as it can be done from two different places: from coaching to coaching as a supervisor, and from mentoring, as a Mentor Coach.
Valuable feedback to highlight the learnings that the participants themselves brought, based on the 11 core competencies set by the ICF to ensure the quality and professionalism of executive coaching.
Listen, presence, language, vision, action… The analysis was exhaustive, as highlighted in one of Rosa Zappino's contributions about how the coach works during a session: «The coachee focuses on their problem, on the challenge ahead of them, but the coach doesn't focus on this, but rather works with the person the coachee wants to become in the future.».
The activity was framed within the International Coaching Week, which is organised annually by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
