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NEWPORT, R.I. - The MyNavy Coaching team visited Newport for a series of four-hour coaching workshops at Officer Training Command (OTC) and the Senior Enlisted Academy (SEA), and meetings with leaders at the Naval Leadership and Ethics Center (NLEC), Sept. 7-13, 2022.
Command Master Chief Duncan MacLeod and Master Chief Aviation Maintenance Administrationman Courtney Barber from Navy Personnel Command’s Talent Management Task Force led the workshops for OTC and the SEA.
“It’s been the most enlightening process,” said Lt. Micaela Barter-Kulian, from Officer Development School, who participated in the training. “I had to challenge my own way of thinking. I would say that it has broadened the way I think and interact with people.”
The team also met with members of the OTC team to discuss the MyNavy Coaching workshops, their importance, and where they may be implemented within the curriculum. This also allowed the team to assess how MyNavy Coaching would be useful for instructors to be utilized with their candidates and to actually practice using the key coaching techniques.
MyNavy Coaching is a Chief of Naval Personnel-led initiative to build and sustain a peer-to-peer coaching culture within the Navy with the goal to make our Sailors more coach-like. Coaching is a developmental, collaborative partnership between a coach and a coaching partner, the purpose of which is to deliberately grow, broaden, and sustain development of the coaching partner to enhance performance through personal and professional goal setting and constructive feedback.
“We can’t lead today’s Sailors with yesterday’s mindset,” said Barber. “As the world continues to modernize and evolve, we need to figure out how to keep the amazing people and Sailors we have, and coaching is that tool.”
Coaching is a communication and leadership skill that utilizes active listening, empathy, and asking powerful open-ended questions. Using coaching as a communication skill allows for communication in an open, honest, and respectful way that promotes bi-directional feedback and growth to achieve the best performance.
Senior Chief Quartermaster Henry Nicol, a facilitator at the Senior Enlisted Academy, says this workshop has been insightful. “At SEA we are here as facilitators to discuss leadership topics and skills, and this is going to help build on that and give people more insight into what it means to be a chief petty officer,” he said. “As chiefs, we’re already in the role as a coach and this reinforces and puts a title on what we do.”
MyNavy Coaching also ties in with the Chief of Naval Operations’ call to action for every Navy leader to “Get Real, Get Better.” Through self-assessment and self-correction, Get Real, Get Better is a call to action for every Navy leader to apply a set of Navy-proven leadership and problem-solving best practices.
“MyNavy Coaching is one of the legs holding up Get Real, Get Better, because it’s about communication, collaboration, teamwork and coming together to solve problems,” said Barber. Get Real, Get Better encourages leaders to be honest, humble, and transparent about their performance and to acknowledge that there is always room for improvement.
“We need to be self-aware and self-assessing and coaching makes us not only aware of ourselves but aware of our superiors and subordinates, so being an effective coach will help us get real and make the team get better,” said Nicol.
The mission of MyNavy Coaching is to inspire coaching partners to reach their potential and achieve maximum performance outcomes through coaching partnerships.
For more information on MyNavy Coaching please visit: https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Career-Management/Talent-Management/Coaching/
| Date Taken: | 09.14.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 10.11.2022 10:10 |
| Story ID: | 431062 |
| Location: | NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, US |
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