{"id":1112,"date":"2019-05-02T22:53:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T20:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neovita.com\/thoughts\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2019-05-07T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T14:01:05","slug":"the-value-of-my-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/the-value-of-my-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"The value of what I do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EIDU is a startup that helps preschool kids learn math and English. Each week I chat with development team leaders in the organization. We talk about how their work is going, which their next steps are, and such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some weeks ago I wanted to investigate which value these 1-on-1s provide. I also want to give better service \u2013 this was an opportunity to make a big iteration.
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Over the last few months I have worked with 7 persons at EIDU. Now I interviewed them about their experience of our interactions. For each of the 17 projects I have worked on we discussed which difference I have made. We also touched on ways I have helped outside of projects. I asked each person what i should start\/continue\/stop doing. I also asked them to quantify my contribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Services<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From talking to my colleagues I understood that I help them make good choices<\/em> in three ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. I help my colleagues think about their projects\u2019 goal and their plans.<\/li>
  2. I share my knowledge of methods for design and product development.<\/li>
  3. By listening to many groups in the company I get a lot of info about the org. I then share this info with those who don\u2019t already have it.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    In future posts I will dig in to these services and how my service delivery should change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Value<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    My biggest insight came when I asked my colleagues to quantify the value of what I do. It became utterly clear that it\u2019s not possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Talking about saved time or increased efficiency or better ideation was pointless since the interactions are qualitative. I don\u2019t conduct A\/B experiments on my colleagues. No, I work in a unique way with each person, with specific qualitative goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The value of what I do can not be quantified. Quite a finding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But I also realized that I do three valuable things: I help team leaders reflect on their process and connect their work to goals, I help them conduct activities well, and I share relevant information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    At EIDU I talk every week with team leaders about their projects. They seem to appreciate the chats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,9,35],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching","category-process","category-product-discovery"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/product-coach-value-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}