It was a more than six-month consultancy project. The end goal is to help ITE College West design and co-create a reflective practices toolkit that can be used for all academic, admin and professional staff.
The project was filled with challenges.
First, such whole of organisation’s adoption of reflective practices cannot be done top-down. It needs a way to create a safe space for inputs from the ground on what define reflective practices and how such practices are already being implemented to emerge and combine with top down strategies.
Second, the development of an adaptable reflective toolkit that can cater to the diverse needs of staff wanting to excel in their domain areas is complex and require deep know-how in how people learn through reflection.
Luckily for me, I have expertise in all these areas.
To address the first challenge, I co-design and customized a LEGO(R) SERIOUS PLAY(R) session to engage the identified 20 Champions for reflective practices to elicit their wisdom and know how on what is reflective practices, why it is useful and how it is currently practiced.
Leveraging upon the insights from the workshop, I addressed the second challenge by combining the insights with my expertise in coaching and learning and the science of habit formulation to create an adaptive process for reflective practices with the questions for each process step.
The final outcomes were consolidated and resulted in the design of a desk calendar to help staff of any domains to reflect individually or collaboratively to drive excellence at work. This was then shared via a learning forum to all leaders and staff.
The journey of developing this impactful outcome was difficult. Hence, you can imagine my sense of deep satisfaction to see how the eventual output took shape over time to its fruition.
I love such consultancy project that stretches every expertise that I have honed over more than 20 years.
Journey like this is coddiwompling at its best. Thank you ITE for giving me this opportunity to serve.
If you are interested to explore how my expertise can help achieve impactful outcome for you, feel free to reach out.
My coddiwompling journey continues…