ECHO: Our Training For Goal-Oriented Coaching
Learn the most important skills for effective coaching and understand how to continuously develop your coachee so they can meet their goals.
In ECHO, you will take on the role of a respected trainer and support a key public figure in effectively implementing a global strategy to remove plastic from our oceans.
ECHO enables you and your staff to learn and hone the key skills required for effective coaching. This includes:
- The use of effective questioning techniques
- Getting to know coaching sub-processes and understanding their significance
- Goal-oriented communication with a focus on results
- Objectivity, continuous learning, and empathy
You will receive a certificate of completion and ECHO counts for 5 CPE hours.
Approximate training duration: 5 – 10 hours
Gamification Storyline
The goal is to conclude a global, environmental agreement to save the oceans in various simulated coaching sessions.
You will learn skills and abilities to ensure that your coachee defines their goals, analyzes the real situation with its key influencing parameters, evaluates their options and alternative solutions, and finally draws up a good action plan.
The external circumstances always pose exciting challenges and obstacles that get in the way of you and your coachee. These must be overcome intelligently. Help save the oceans and coach successfully to achieve your goals!
ECHO is currently available in the following languages: English, German, French, and Spanish.
Characteristics of the Gamified Training
- Game-based didactic methods
- Applicable and practical content on interpersonal communication skills
- Results-oriented learning with revolutionary gamification technologies
- Simulations for experience-based learning
- Flexible, intuitive to use, fast, and easy to train
- An exciting gamification storyline that facilitates targeted and experiential learning
- A unique learning experience
Methodology
The developed, game-based learning method is a combination of three elements:
- High-quality content equivalent to a two-day, on-site course with a strong, practical focus that is useful and directly applicable to the work
- The use of gamification techniques in terms of storytelling, ranking motivation, scoring, different learning and game levels, and incentives through recognition and awards. This makes the training a motivating and exciting learning experience, which directly promotes the intrinsic motivation to learn alongside your employees
Practical exercises that allow you as a participant to practice directly in a safe and motivating environment and to implement the practical knowledge. You will receive detailed feedback in the form of individual learning loops.
Knowledge and Skills
With the use of the realistic simulations and individual characters in ECHO, the training is an effective way of imparting knowledge. The gamified training elements simulate a targeted, didactic learning process.
Through the coaching sessions shown in the Serious Business Game, the participant acquires a deep understanding of the skills required to conduct real coaching scenarios. The participant’s empathy is put to the test here, and communication is checked for assertiveness. At the same time, the player learns to ask effective, open questions with the aim of increasing and developing the awareness of their coachee.
ECHO enables you and your staff to practice, as participants, the key skills required for effective coaching. This includes:
- The use of effective questioning techniques
- Getting to know coaching sub-processes and understanding their significance
- Goal-oriented communication with a focus on results
- Objectivity, continuous learning, and empathy
Further integrated skills include:
- Focused work, interpersonal relationships, solution orientation, information gathering, planning, assertiveness, self-confidence, self-assurance, self-control
- Better understanding of cause-and-effect chains, effective communication, decision-making, coordination, teamwork and flexibility, negotiation, and change management
What Is ECHO’s Focus Group?
ECHO addresses all professional profiles, in particular employees, executives, and managers who wish to develop the talent of their employees or clients as relationship managers and increase their performance potential.
Objectives | Why ECHO?
- Support talent development in your team.
- Discover the coaching process step by step.
- Learn techniques for leading conversations and the associated coaching phases.
- Develop the necessary skills and tools to become a great coach.
- Practice your coaching skills in realistic situations with a sophisticated in-game simulator.
What Are the Requirements to Get Started?
- The only thing you need to get started is a device with internet access.
- You can access our performance-optimized business game platform at any time from anywhere in the world via your individual user profile or integrate the business game training into your LMS (Cornerstone, Moodle, SAP Success Factors, etc.).
- You will receive regular reports on the progress of your participants and training groups. This allows you to always have an overview of how everyone is doing and motivate your team in a goal-oriented manner.
