intermediate · 210–270 min
VERIFY 3 — Coach the Work & Lead from the Front
A trainer delivers a curriculum to a roomful of people. A coach is one person per team, slightly ahead, available, watching the real work. This session finds the coaches you already have and makes their role real. Then it turns to the highest-leverage move in the whole method: getting a senior person to use AI visibly, in their own work, where the team can see them be uncertain.
About this session
Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond studied a rollout to 5,179 support agents. Average output rose fourteen percent, novices thirty-four percent, top performers close to zero. The model had encoded the tacit knowledge of the best agents and the workflow distributed it to the weakest — capability lived in the system, not in the heads. Separately, BCG found that employees feeling positive about generative AI rises from fifteen to fifty-five percent on one variable: strong, visible leadership support.
Why it works
The Stakeholder Ecosystem Map surfaces the unblocker nobody named, which is where capability programmes actually stall. The Champion Selection Scorecard replaces enthusiasm with credibility and protectable time as selection criteria. The Futures Wheel then traces one leadership behaviour into its second ring, where the sustaining shift hides. Role play rehearses the difficult adoption conversation before it happens for real.
What you’ll walk away with
- A stakeholder ecosystem map with the missing role that would stall adoption named
- Three to seven named coaches, with protected hours and what comes off their plate
- A futures wheel tracing the second-order consequences of one leadership behaviour
- A specific leadership conversation, scheduled, with the case you will make
Who it’s for
L&D Leaders, Senior Leaders, Team Managers, Transformation Leads
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between a coach and a champion?
Time on the calendar. Designating champions without protected hours produces unpaid emotional labour, then burnout, then a quiet end six months later.
Our CEO will not attend. Is this session pointless?
No, but the F work must end with a scheduled conversation. If you cannot schedule it directly, name the person who can, and have that conversation first.
How do we scale coaching once it works?
By adding coaches, not by handing the method to a curriculum function. The moment it becomes a workshop, capability stops accumulating.
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