How to Conduct a World Class One Hour Winslow Debrief - Winslow University [INTERNAL USE]

Brief Summary

This video provides a comprehensive guide on conducting a 1-hour private debriefing of the Winslow profile with individuals, focusing on validating strengths and identifying potential liabilities. It emphasizes the importance of truthfulness, preparing with pre-coaching worksheets, and strategically communicating findings. The video also addresses handling cynicism, offering behavioral changes, and dealing with contradictions between the profile and observed success.

• Validating strengths and identifying potential liabilities.
• Preparing with pre-coaching worksheets.
• Strategically communicating findings.

Introduction to the Debriefing Process

The 1-hour private debriefing aims to validate traits contributing to professional success and well-being, while also identifying potential liabilities that could hinder success and contentment. The Winslow profile is instrumental in achieving this by revealing the truth about an individual's characteristics. An example is given of a profile revealing high motivation and sociability coupled with cynicism and low control, indicating potential emotional wounds and a risk of self-medication.

Preparing for the Debriefing

Preparation involves having the participant complete an online pre-coaching worksheet to ensure they read their 45-page report and to identify traits that aid or impede their progress. This worksheet asks the participant to pinpoint three traits that most contribute to their success and contentment, as well as three traits that detract from their well-being. It's recommended to have this form submitted before the debriefing.

Conducting the 1-Hour Conversation

The conversation begins by highlighting strong, favorable traits to build trust, before addressing traits that may inhibit professional success and personal happiness. This involves using descriptive adjectives from the manager report and reviewing the influential trait section for recommendations on modifying behavior. For new hires, insights from the hiring manager and line supervisor can clarify expected behaviors and potential issues.

Using the Influential Trait Section

The influential trait section of the report provides detailed descriptions of behaviors associated with specific traits, such as low nurturance. This section includes defining adjectives and explains how other traits can impact the trait in question. During the debriefing, this information can be used to question potentially problematic traits, linking them to the individual's aspirations and offering coaching as a partnership.

Adapting Communication Style

Communication style should be tailored to the client by reviewing certain traits. Different recommendations apply based on whether the participant scores high or low in traits like trust, composure, and need to control. This helps in preparing a communication approach that resonates with each individual.

Developing a Strategic Sense of Personality

Developing a strategic sense of the client's personality involves recognizing how traits cluster together to form ingrained behaviors. The Winslow report aids in identifying these patterns, enabling more effective and faster coaching. A coach's cluster analysis worksheet is particularly useful for long-term coaching relationships.

Final Preparations and Initial Reactions

The final step is to review the online pre-coaching worksheet closely to launch an effective conversation. An anecdote illustrates how a skeptical manager, who initially dismissed the profile, was ultimately moved by its accuracy and sought coaching. This highlights the power of sharing the truth and addressing potential liabilities.

Clarifying Traits and Their Impact

The 1-hour conversation aims to clarify the participant's understanding of their traits and how they affect behavior. It begins by identifying and explaining positive traits, followed by addressing potential liabilities. The pre-coaching worksheet is used to agree on which traits contribute to or detract from well-being.

Delivering Encouraging and Difficult News

The debriefing involves delivering both encouraging and potentially difficult news, requiring empathy and understanding. The precision of the reports often moves individuals, leading to a sense of acquiescence and a desire for reform. Even cynics may be motivated to make immediate changes.

Suggesting Behavioral Changes and Encouraging Transformation

Suggest incremental behavioral changes to enable quick positive results, such as improving phone etiquette for someone low in sociability. Offer encouragement and ideas that promote long-term transformation by focusing on self-management skills. Avoid leaving the individual to self-discovery; instead, provide specific, down-to-earth recommendations from the reports.

Addressing Deeper Issues and Contradictions

Be prepared to address deeper issues, as some clients may have pent-up emotions. The debriefing can be a catalyst for expressing and processing these feelings. Also, be prepared to hear stories that contradict the profile's predictions, and investigate outside influences that may be suppressing predicted behaviors.

Challenging Conversations and Contradictory Results

Share stories of challenging conversations where delivering hard truths had a positive impact, such as a pastor who resigned after realizing the profile's accuracy. When profile results contradict observed success, maintain faith in the assessment and investigate further. Often, external factors, such as family pressure or influential connections, explain the contradiction.