Level 2B - Kata Expert Coach

Summary

A Level 2B Kata Expert Coach can demonstrate that they have regularly coached over a longer period more than one individual in practicing and developing a more scientific ways of thinking 

A Level 2B Kata Expert Coach can demonstrate knowledge and application of the Coaching Kata 5-Phase model by helping multiple learners achieve a series of target conditions and meet real challenges and is adept at applying the Coaching Kata with different people, in a variety of scenarios and often challenging situations.

A Level 2B Kata Expert Coach has the ability to pursue a series of target conditions for developing multiple people’s ability and mindset.

Level 2B focuses on developing a coach’s mindset, so he/she is able to:

• Focus on the person’s learning.
• Focus on the other person’s way of thinking and approach, rather than the technical  content of the conversation. 
• Be “solution open” and freely give true autonomy to the learner, for example by allowing experiments that are likely to fail in order to facilitate longer-term learning.
• Focus on developing the other person’s way of thinking, adaptiveness and ability to work towards and reach challenging goals.
• Focus on developing their team in a more scientific way of working together.

Knowledge requirements

The Level 2B Kata Expert Coach shall know and understand:

1. Preparing a new learner for coaching.
2. The Improvement Kata Starter Kata for practicing the  scientific method.
3. The learner’s storyboard and the other Improvement Kata Starter Kata to understand the learner’s current pattern of thinking and identify where it deviates from the desired way of thinking.
4. Evaluating a learner’s current state of ability and way of thinking.
5. Establishing consecutive target conditions for developing a learner’s ability.
6. Recognising a learner’s emotional state.
7. Dealing with different learner’s levels of resilience and individual learning preferences.
8. Working with interconnected target conditions in a team of learner’s.
9. Recognising and dealing with interdependencies between target conditions of different learners.
10. Optional: The role and responsibilities of a second coach.
11. Optional: Linking and deriving target conditions with/from  Strategy (Policy) Deployment.

Application requirements

The Level 2B Kata Expert Coach shall be able to demonstrate:

1. The ability to prepare a new learner for coaching.
2. Use of the Improvement Kata Starter Kata for practicing a scientific approach with a new learner.
3. They have reached several consecutive, interconnected target conditions in their team of learner’s through coaching them on a regular basis and have set a challenge to give direction to their team from which the team can derive target conditions.
4. They have made  coaching individuals a regular part of working with and developing their team.
5. The ability to evaluate a learner’s current state of ability and way of thinking and do it on a regular basis.
6. They have defined and reached individual Target Conditions for the learner’s ability and mindset.
7. They have coached different people with different personalities and learning styles.
8. The ability to handle sensitive and difficult situations in coaching cycles with individuals as well as with the whole team.

Course outcomes

At the end of a course/programme aligned to L2B the Kata Expert Coach shall be able to:

• Act as the coach to multiple individuals in a variety of scenarios and often challenging situations through daily coaching cycles.
• Apply the Improvement Kata model to developing people’s ability.
• Help a team to achieve a series of interconnected target conditions and meet a real challenge.