How It Works

Location

The Coaches Clinic will be in the Nautilus Foyer. This is a lower level foyer across from breakout rooms.

Clinic Hours

• Regular clinic hours are conference breaks, an hour prior to the first session and an hour after the last session.
• Coaches are free to remain in the space at other times and serve attendees who chose to skip conference sessions and come in for coaching, but coverage is not guaranteed for those times.

Appointments

• Appointments are 15 minutes.
• Client can request two in a row or extend a session if no one was waiting.
• People can sign up for multiple appointments.
• People can walk in and get immediate appointments if a coach is available.

Process

The Clinic is highly organizing and self-scheduling. Here is how it works:

1. Attendees can request an appointment by filling out a sticky note and placing it on their desired time box on the sign-up board.
2. The sticky note has the person’s name (first is enough) and topic on it.
3. The topic helps the facilitator and coaches match topics to coach expertise. This is rarely needed but often welcome.
4. Attendees can ask for a specific coach on their appointment sticky but we do not guarantee that match-up when the time comes. It is up to the coaches to agree. In the past we have found such a guarantee to be difficult to enforce with volunteers who have competing priorities at the event.
5. Clients are matched with their coach either by the facilitator or by any available coach.
6. Conversations then take place at a table, time-boxed to 15 minutes.
7. Attendees are given a ribbon to add to their conference lanyard and asked to leave feedback before exiting.

Source: http://www.agilecoachjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/CoachesClinic1.6.pdf; Roger Brown

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