Enabling Teams
Plays for people whose job is to help other teams gain a capability and then leave.
Enabling Teams
Plays for helping a team gain a capability, then leaving
Agree the exit signal before the first session
When: nobody, including you, can say what "done" would look like.
The action: agree one sign the team will be able to see when they no longer need you. Write it down where they can see it.
Signals: the team refers to the exit signal unprompted.
When: you are about to teach the same thing to a third team.
The action: stop teaching it. Raise it with the platform team as a capability they could offer self-service.
Signals: the next team gets the capability without contacting you.
Decline when the gap is capacity rather than capability
When: the team already knows how to do the thing. What they lack is time.
The action: say no, and send the conversation back to whoever sets the team's priorities.
Signals: the team's priorities change, and your queue holds capability requests.
Run an inception when the team can't state the problem the same way twice
When: three people give three different answers, and nobody seems bothered.
The action: agree the problem, the people it affects, and what the team will not do. Keep it to days.
Signals: the team describes the problem in matching terms within a week.
Harvest a session into a module after its second run
When: you have run the same session for a second team, and it worked both times.
The action: harvest it into a reusable module. Capture what changed between the two runs.
Signals: someone else runs the module without asking you how.
Switch to dialogue when the same argument comes back a third time
When: people restate their positions more firmly each round and nobody learns anything new.
The action: name the pattern. Ask each side to explain their assumptions until the others can state them back.
Signals: people restate each other's assumptions accurately.
Reflect back before proposing when a team rejects your first suggestion
When: the team pushed back and you want to offer a better idea straight away.
The action: hold the next idea. Play back why the first one didn't fit, and check you have it right.
Signals: the team corrects or adds to your playback.
Coaching skills belong in training modules
A play can point to a module when a team lacks a skill like active listening. It doesn't teach the skill itself.
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What is not here
Coaching 101 and active listening as skills belong in a training module. A play can point to a module when a team lacks the skill, but it doesn't teach the skill itself. The distinction between discussion and dialogue is reference material that one play draws on.
Open questions
Do these plays depend on the enabling team's position (temporary, invited, aiming to leave)? If a play works just as well for any coach, it may belong in a general practitioner collection instead.
Most likely source instances come from consultancy. External enablement has a commercial reason to stay engaged that internal enabling teams lack. Each instance should say which context it comes from.
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