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Play Two Win Method TM Coaching
Pursue Human Greatness
12 2.5 hour sessions; 30 hours total
Learn the powerful nine step coaching method where you elicit the human spirit of play by guiding your player to design a winnable game, play better and win on their own terms. You will learn how to combine your personal experience with the method to provide what every player wants from their coach: confidence that you can help them win through game planning, skills practice, inner freedom and a winning environment. You will learn how to provide the right balance between support and challenge that leads to human greatness. Your confidence as a coach will soar as you master this method.
** This program qualifies for 30 ICF CCEU's
The Details
3 Key Points
1) Any endeavor can be a playable, coach-able game
The Purpose of Coaching:
Guiding an individual or team to PLAY BETTER and win on their own terms
If you are a coach/manager You will achieve much better performance from EVERYONE around you with less stress and more fun by designing a winnable game and focusing on playing better each day.
Our theory is that any endeavor in life can be played as a winnable game worth playing. If a game is worth playing then it is also worth playing better which means it is coach-able! In this program you will learn how to create a winnable game and use it as the foundation of every coaching relationship - with every player you coach. You will also learn how to spot an unwinnable game and correct it before it leads to frustration for your player.
When we say any, we mean ANY! You can make a game out of business, career, relationship, health, basketball, spiritual quest, personal growth, community leadership, personal leadership... ANYTHING.
2) The Heart of what people expect from a Coach
The program gets to the heart of what most people expect from a coach:
1) The ability to teach them how to play the game better by helping them learn, practice and refine the skills of the game AND
2) The ability to guide them with an effective personalized game plan.
3) The ability to debrief the game to facilitate development and learning. You must be able to celebrate successes in a way that expands awareness and to debrief losses in a way that promotes growth and restores their desire to get back into the game.
To do these things you must have a solid knowledge of the game and a clear method for guiding them to the results they desire. Your players trust you to have a way of doing things that is reliable, consistent and grounded in experience.
Your players / clients trust you to have a way of doing things that is reliable, consistent and grounded in experience. They expect you to have solid knowledge of the game and a clear method for guiding them to the results they desire.
In many coaching theories and schools of thought, knowledge of the game is grossly overlooked, even dismissed. Not here. We know that your knowledge, wisdom and experience is one of your greatest assets as a coach and in this program we show you how to refine it and leverage it for the maximum benefit of your players / clients.
We will help you put this together in this program.
3) The value of a method
This is a method-based course. You will learn how to do each part of the method step- by- step, then add your wisdom and expertise to make it your own. While you are at it, you will also learn how to be a player and experience coming alive in a winnable game.
If you are a professional coach in practice or in training this program will provide you with something of extreme value: a METHOD. While excellent coaching relies on communication, intuition and other “soft skills”, a method is your gateway to consistent and predictable results.
The purpose of the method is to create a framework to guide you toward helping people play better and win. You supply the knowledge of the game based on your experience and the basic coaching skills such as asking powerful questions, active listening and direct communication. The method does the rest.
The method has a natural flow, but is not always linear. A method is a predictable process designed to produce consistent results. While there is a natural flow to the nine distinct steps in the process they are not necessarily linear. Typically you will use the nine steps in order when first working with a new player; Defining the purpose comes first and designing the actions comes next and so on. But once you are really coaching with someone the steps can be used in any order depending on the situation.
The 9 Steps of the Play Two Win Method
1) Define the purpose and objectives of the game
2) Design the actions of the game
3) Play the game
4) Respond to challenges
5) Evaluate progress
6) Game plan to leverage strengths
7) Practice the skills of the game
8) Expand inner freedom
9) Design personal environments
The Themes of the Course
The Play Two Win Method gets to the heart of what most people expect from a coach: Solid knowledge of the game and the ability to help them play better consistently and get sustainable results.
1) Create a compelling action-oriented, result-focused game for your player to play and master. (and the transformation from work to play)
2) What makes a game winnable
3) What makes a game unwinnable
4) How to PLAY at anything in life
5) Evaluate progress based on results - celebrate successes and learn from failure
6) Understand the flow of a coaching session by weaving together the elements of the Play Two Win Method
7) Understand that the fundamental component of most life games is communication
8) Understand the important distinction between focus on outcomes vs. focus on mastery and how to organize practices and projects into a game worth playing and avoid the DEADLY task list trap
9) How to talk like a coach with the Spirit of Play
10) Support and challenge and the Pursuit of Human Greatness
The GAME!
In each class you will...
a) Engage in a lively discussion about the topic of the day
b) Observe a real coaching session
c) Coach a classmate and be coached in YOUR game
Each week between classes you will play a fun and challenging game
where you earn points for:
1) answering questions about what you have learned
2) completing exercises that help you become a better player and coach
3) playing BIG in your own life
4) conducting coaching sessions
5) acquiring feedback letters from your players
6) staying in contact with your player/coach
7) supporting your team mates
8) making a BIG WIN happen in your life
Center for Coaching Mastery Students need a minimum number of points to graduate
You will be able to trade in your points for rewards at LifeVille.com! Awesome.
How this program will make you a better coach
1) You will dramatically increase your confidence because you have a reliable method that gets results.
2) You will develop the ability to help your player craft an effective personalized game plan.
3) You will develop the ability to teach your player how to play the game better by practicing and refining the skills of the game
4) You will develop the ability to expand inner freedom through playing and facing challenges
5) You will develop the ability to create environments for sustainable results.
6) You will learn the powerful distinctions between work and play - and you will discover how to PLAY in the serious games of life: like business, career, family and romance.
7) You will learn how to elicit greatness using play pattern language - the natural language of the coaching craft
8) You will learn how to determine if the game your player wants to play is winnable or not
9) You will learn how to outline the activities of any life or business game and identify the game plans, skills, sources of inner resistance and environments for each one.
10) You will learn the ONE BIG QUESTION that you MUST ASK EVERY NEW CLIENT
Peer Reviews
June M. Porter
I have had great success using the Play Two Win method with my clients. I have found it so much easier to use than other vague coaching concepts / techniques.
Melissa Wheeler
I am very happy, relieved and pleased that there is such a simple, straight forward method for getting started in coaching. I greatly enjoyed the discussion about coaching in the spirit of play. I also enjoyed discussing the difference between work and play and agree that most people don't have enough joy in their day to day lives. I'm excited that coaching can address this!
Amy Magyar
I loved the discussion about the difference between project management and coaching especially using the play to win model. I assumed that coaching was helping people figure out their tasks! But now I see that it is about figuring out who they want to become!
I actually used this concept with one of my clients and we both had an "ah ha" moment which lead right into a BIG next step for her.
Super Details
Detailed review of the PlayTwo Win Method
Step #1: Define the purpose and objectives of a game worth playing
Clarify focus on the BIG game
Coaching always begins with a desire to play a winnable game. In this part of the process the coach and player identify what the game is, why the game is being played, what winning looks like, determine if the game is winnable, assess the skills that are needed to play well and scan the environment for assets and obstacles. Whew!
The main ingredient is to make it a game worth playing; A game that is connected to what the player truly wants out of life; A game that touches the heart of the player in some way.
Step #2: Design the actions of the game
Identify the recurring activities of the game and the desired results
There are two essential ingredients to this step: The first is to make sure the game is winnable game in terms of the desired short term results. A winnable game is right in the sweet spot between easy and challenging. If the game is too easy it is not inspiring. If it is too hard (not winnable) then apathy sets in. The coach must continually expand the game so that the player grows in ability by stepping into bigger and bigger challenges.
Next is identifying the activities of the game and the way to earn points toward winning. Essentially you “make up a game” by assigning points to performing designated activities and achieving specific results. For example in a business game you might assign one point for meeting with a potential new customer and five points for signing a new paying client. In a loving relationship game you might assign one point for each day you remember to lovingly acknowledge something you enjoy or admire about your partner and three points for enjoying a date that both agree was fabulous.
Making up a game and then setting a standard for a number of points to be obtained in order to “win” is a highly creative process. And it is important to know that while it is made up, it is NOT arbitrary! Keeping score is essential to pursuing excellence in any game. Making a game that inspires the desire to play sets the stage for everything that follows.
Yes, now it is time to get into the game!
3) Play the game
4) Respond to Challenges
5) Evaluate Progress
Step #3: Play the game
Give your heart, soul and energy
AND enjoy it! Have fun.
Playing the game is what it is all about. The key is to play fair, play with gusto and be respectful of the game itself and everyone in the game. AND play to win. Playing to win means that you play with purpose; with the intention to give the very best of yourself. Playing to win means that you will do whatever it takes - within the context of fair play - to achieve the desired outcome. This way of playing always creates the best experience of playing no matter what the outcome is.
ENJOY the experience of playing. The ultimate reward for all of your effort and preparation is the experience of playing well. YES!
Step #4: Respond to Challenges
Get the best result possible from the situation
When the game is on, there are surprises and things you don't expect. These are opportunities to make the most of situations; to make adjustments to your plan or push through difficulties in pursuit of the desired result: winning the game. Often the game can pull the player through challenges where they would normally stop.
The way your player responds to challenges will tell you a LOT about them. And it will give you a lot of important clues that you can use to help them become a better player.
As a coach, you have to stay in communication while the game is on and be available for quick advice.
Step #5: Evaluate Progress
Learn and grow from judgment-free awareness
Playing any game well requires an ongoing process of evaluation and refinement. The coach must keep one eye on how the client is playing now, and another on where the client is going. Often the client will not see that what they are doing is not working! Celebrating wins and transforming loses into learning opportunities are at the very essence of coaching. Enjoy, celebrate and leverage victories. Debrief and quickly learn from losses by practicing judgment- free awareness. This is how coaches create long term player improvement and growth.
The essential ingredient here is to realize that there will always be wins and losses in any game. One of the BIG jobs of a coach is to transform losing experiences into learning experiences. If you lose and you are playing alone, often you feel like a loser. If you lose and you have a coach, you become a fast learner. BIG DIFFERENCE.
The method has a natural flow, but is not always linear. A method is a predictable process designed to produce consistent results. While there is a natural flow to the nine distinct steps in the process they are not necessarily linear. Typically you will use the nine steps in order when first working with a new player; Defining the game comes first and designing the game comes next and so on. But once you are really working with someone the steps can be used in any order depending on the situation.
Once the winnable game is designed, the coach and player / client delve into playing better every day. A coach has four fundamental steps to help players play better and win on their own terms:
6) Game Plan to leverage strengths
7) Practice the skills of the game
8) Super Conductivity: Expand Inner Freedom
9) Design a Winning Environment
Step #6: Game Plan to leverage strengths
Teach the strategies of the game
Here the coach uses experience of similar situations and their ability use strategy to craft just the right action plan with the player. A strategy is a WAY of playing that uses your skills to get the best possible result. It is your approach to the game.
To create a game plan, the coach and player(s) look at the upcoming game together and collaborate to decide on the best approach.
What is the desired outcome?
How do we make best use of your current skills?
What assets and resources can we utilize?
What challenges are we likely to face and how will we respond to them?
The player now has a clear action plan with a strategic foundation which is a real gift in the age of infinite (overwhelming) possibility and endless (overwhelming) information. The player also develops an expanded capacity to think strategically for themselves.
Step #7: Practice the skills of the game
Create a personalized learning plan for your player
EVERY game has specific skills or techniques associated with the activities of the game. In the game of soccer one skill is kicking the ball in the direction you want it to go. With business a key skill connecting with potential customers. The coach must use their experience to design a practice plan that matches the current ability of your player / client. The purpose is to teach your player the skills of the game in a way that is appropriate to their current level of play.
Through constant practice you help your players improve their abilities and expand their capability to figure out for themselves what to do and how to do it when the game is on.
Step #8: Expand Inner Freedom
Inner Freedom IS the game
Inner Freedom effects every decision your player makes and nearly every action they take. Decisions and actions are what creates winning and losing in every game. The key to inner freedom coaching is to understand the fundamental influence of values, thoughts, beliefs, feelings, emotions and motivations to help your player achieve peak performance.
A typical way of thinking about this is to use the term blind spots. It is the nature of patterns that they become invisible to us. As a coach you are a highly informed outside observer that can see the patterns that the player has become blind too and then expand the self- awareness of the player.
The end result of all of this is a state of flow; ease and grace while playing the game. This is sort of deep and lasting growth that people play games for in the first place.
Step #9: Design a Winning Environment
The environment always wins
It does not matter how inspired or motivated or skillful you are if the world around you is full of obstacles, you can not win. If your team mates are not on the same page, your best effort will not make a difference. The master coach helps the player design the world around them to inspire ongoing excellence.
The essential ingredient here is to realize that environmental design is the key to sustainable success in life and in coaching! The environment must be redesigned for the game the player is playing now. For most people the environment is a reflection of the games they used to play. Why is this? People have a two-way relationship with the world around them: they are adapting to what is there while at the same time the world around them is becoming a reflection of who they are. BIG INSIGHT: The adaptive process is fast and somewhat transient while the reflective process is slow but more substantive.
In other words, over time, the world around you becomes an accurate reflection of who you WERE are on the inside; This may or may not be good news! While in a new environment, quick change may occur, typically people return to the way they were before if they leave that new environment.
So in order to create sustainable change, the coach must use their creativity, design sense and awareness of workability to help the player make immediate changes to the outside world that reflect the changes made on the inside. Then the adaptive process works FOR positive change rather than against it! The player becomes more aware of the world around them and more connected to it. This leads to sustainable results.
The method is a framework
Use everything YOU have to help your players win
The Key Themes in Greater Detail
1) Create a compelling action-oriented, result-focused game for your player to play and master (and the transformation from work to play)
Most people have been trained to WORK on things that matter and that play is only acceptable when the object is frivolous. As a Coach you have to turn this around and show people that they can PLAY at the things that matter most. By playing you will unleash their creativity, self- expression, resourcefulness, personal values AND focus on results.
You will show them that by evoking the human spirit of play they will have a LOT more fun AND get better, more sustainable results.
2) What makes a game winnable
“I have been coaching for a long time and I have been a student of life for just as long. And in the last 11 years I have coached close to 1,000 people one-to-one and in small groups. There is nothing more inspiring than a person PLAYING BIG - fully engaged in a challenging AND winnable game.”
-Coach Dave Buck
1) It has a desired outcome that focuses your energy, attention and imagination
2) It has activities that are fun and challenging.
3) It has basic rules and boundaries that establish respect and fair play
4) It has a score card so you can evaluate how well you are playing on a regular basis; note to managers: this is major upgrade from the generally useless annual performance appraisal
5) It has skills that you can practice to expand your capacities AND if you really get into the game you can pursue mastery.
6) In a game you can notice and feel yourself improving over a period of time.
7) It has a variety of possible strategies and game plans that spark your creativity.
8) It is full of surprises that test your resilience and resourcefulness
9) AND above all it has OTHER PEOPLE PLAYING so that you feel like you are a part of something. You build relationships through shared experiences.
10) A winnable game is something you PLAY for enjoyment, for a purpose. A winnable game will bring you to life.
Now, let me tell you something here: playing a winnable game does not mean life is always easy or fun! NO.
Sometimes you get into a really challenging game and it is tough. And sometimes you LOSE and it is heart breaking. All of these things are part of playing games. But when you REALLY play, you feel that reward that only comes from giving it your all no matter what happens.
3) What makes a game unwinnable
As a coach, you must know how to spot an unwinnable game! If your player has one, it will become a problem for them but a BIGGER problem for you because it is your job to help them win.
Here are a few thoughts about the unwinnable game:
Most people today are trapped in an unwinnable game, OR a game that is not worth playing.
And it is the reason this whole concept is so transformational and so important - NOW more than ever.
...in their careers, businesses, relationships, finances, health - most people are playing a game they can not win OR a game that is not worth winning because it has no real purpose for them. And they are suffering as a result; even if they put up a good front and say that everything is GREAT. It's almost like they have gotten accustomed to it. UGH!
The unwinnable game...
Dampens the human spirit,
Thwarts creativity and
Suppresses self-expression
Causes overwhelm, frustration, isolation and apathy
AND it shows! EVERYWHERE.
... in stress, anxiety, over-consumption, low-grade frustration and a whole host of other cultural phenomenon.
One explanation of these symptoms is the INCREASING degree to which people are playing unwinnable games in life. Keep reading, I think you will find it quite liberating.
An unwinnable game has many causes. But here are a few of the most common:
1) Playing a game that requires skills that you have not fully developed AND you do not have a coach teaching you those skills
2) Playing a game based on a goal with an unrealistic time frame (have you heard of this one?)
3) Playing a game with an environment that is not set up for winning. The environment is the world of people, places, things and ideas. There are resources that are needed to win that you just do not have, or obstacles that are constantly in the way.
4) Playing someone else’s game - it has no real meaning for you personally
5) Playing a game where there are escalated expectations for performance - or where it is expected that you can play at a high level 24/7/365 - you can’t!
4) How to PLAY well at anything in life
1) Go into the game with eager anticipation; have a clear idea about what you want to do
2) Play with enthusiasm. Have fun. Enjoy being IN THE GAME. Lose yourself in the moments of the game.
3) Be aware of what is happening in the game. Stay awake; Be present. Let the game guide you and pull you forward.
4) Respond to challenges and setbacks with grace and resourcefulness
5) Don’t get bogged down in self-judgment or critical thinking. Avoid making assessments about how you are playing while the game is on, there will be time for that AFTER the game.
6) While the game is on, keep playing. Always looking for a way to win.
7) Maintain respect for everyone in the game, the rules of the game AND yourself.
8) When the game is over, IT IS OVER. Be grateful for the opportunity to play. Have the experience of feeling satisfied with your effort whether you win or lose.
9) When you win, enjoy a little celebration. (Yeah!)
10) Be prepared to review the game with your coach. Learn from what happened and did not happen. Inquire with intensity: what can I do to play better next time?
5) Evaluate progress based on results - celebrate successes and learn from failure
One big reason why people stop playing in life is because they don't like losing; Better to not play at all than to take a chance to really play hard for something and suffer a heart-breaking defeat. As a Coach YOU are the one that can revive their desire to play by showing them that every loss can lead to a future success when you evaluate what happened from a judgment- free perspective. You can inspire them to play for BIG results and if they get them, celebrate, if they don't then we will learn from what happened. You will also have to teach people how to celebrate their wins because most of us were taught that it is not polite to celebrate.
6) Understand the flow of a coaching session by weaving together the elements of the Play Two Win Method
As your players play BIG for results, you will observe them by talking about their actions and their results; and how they responded to the challenges that they faced. From there, you and the player will figure out together what to do next. Here is where the steps of the Play Two Win Method will come in very handy. You will figure out if you need to revise the game plan, practice a skill, explore the inner game or design a better environment. The ability to weave easily and naturally between these options is one hallmark of a masterful coach.
7) Understand that the fundamental component of most life games is communication
Every game has a few fundamental actions. If you look at soccer or basketball they both involve dribbling, passing and shooting the ball; one game with the hands the other with the feet. In most of the games of life the fundamental action is talking to people; making requests, collaborating and adding value. However, most people try to approach their big games in life by burying themselves in a task list. Why? Because tasks are safe and people are dangerous! (not literally dangerous, but conversations can emotionally risky) So you will challenge your players to get into critical conversations; of course practicing with them before they get into the real game.
8) Understand the important distinction between focus on outcomes vs. focus on mastery and how to organize practices and projects into a game worth playing and avoid the DEADLY task list trap
Growing up as workers in the Industrial Economy we have been trained to be task and outcome oriented. There is nothing wrong with working toward outcomes but it is only half of the picture. To truly thrive in life you also have to play toward mastery. The benefit of mastery is that it is fulfilling and it continues to build over a life time; while the joy of reaching an outcome tends to be fleeting.
When you are coaching you have to learn how to ease people out of task mode and ease them into play mode. We will talk about how to do this.
9) How to talk like a coach with the Spirit of Play
It is VERY easy in a coaching session to fall into conversational patterns that you are familiar with like friend, boss, colleague, mate or parent (or counselor, therapist if you have done these). The Spirit of Play and Play Pattern language set the coaching profession apart from every other profession. When you keep your conversations around playing big and playing better you will never be confused with another type of professional. It is essential for you, your players and our profession that you learn how to use these language patterns as a Coach. If your conversations sound too much like a friend or mate, for example, they will soon wonder why they are paying you!
10) Support and challenge and the Pursuit of Human Greatness
There is no greatness without challenge! No one achieves greatness without support. You want your players to become GREAT Players. Greatness is where you love the game and play the game so well that you lift up the other players because of the way you play. As a coach you need to gently guide your player from one challenge to the next always moving them just over the edge of their comfort zone and capability. Then you have to provide the support they need to step up to the challenge with confidence. It is a delicate balance that you must find as a masterful coach.
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Invest: $895 (or 3 payments of $314)
Play Two Win Coaching Method
Tuesdays 2:00-4:30 PM ET
Sep 28 Oct 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Dec 7, 14; 2010
Instructor: Jean Johnson, PCC
Play Two Win Coaching Method
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Sep 28 Oct 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Dec 7, 14; 2010
Instructor: Jean Johnson, PCC
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