Last Friday and Saturday I had the privilege to join a workshop in Hong Kong facilitated by Dr. Dan Harrison, creator of Harrison Assessments. The target of this workshop was to learn how to make maximum use of Harrison Assessments in a coaching situation.
The participants were from quite a variety of backgrounds, such as HR directors, Consultants, Educators, Financial Controllers, Factory Managers and Coaches (incl. myself). During the first day, Dan mostly introduced us to his approach to coaching and made us coach each other. There was little new for me in that approach, the greatest learning was to focus more on the strengths highlighted by the assessment reports rather than on the weaknesses.
This makes perfectly sense because
a) it helps to improve the rapport between client and coach
b) it helps the client to open up, to take down any possibly existing defences
c) it is more successful to enhance strengths rather than focusing too much on weaknesses
On our second day, Dan gave us deeper insights in the design of the assessment reports and how to better interprete them.
What was most amazing for me was the energy we had in the room. Despite the variety in backgrounds, literally everybody opened up in no time and after these 2 days many of us felt as if we knew each other for a long time.
Overall, it was an interesting and useful workshop and it was certainly great to get to know Dan personally.
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