LEARNINGS FROM THE 10-DAY COACHING EXPERIMENT

During the first two week of June we ran an experiment to test a hypothesis. The hypothesis was this: If people receive double the amount of time practicing the coaching labs, they are very likely to reach competency level in coaching (2.5). So we extended the training by two days, shifted some of the days around, put some of the pieces at different places, and left two sections out, and added six more coaching labs along with three demonstrations. This made Days 8, 9, and 10 very intensive— with two rounds of the coaching labs each day so that participants coached two times each day, were coached two times, and gave feedback two times.