RUWAAD- EGA’s Senior Leadership Flagship Programme

Participant Individual Journal

Name of Participant:

Cohort and Challenge Group:

Executive Coach:
Module 1: Introducing your challenges and learning Powerful Questions

Reflection Reminder – refer to your learning contract

Personal Learning Objectives

 What do you want to achieve with the Ruwaad programme and why is this important to
you?
 List up to 3 objectives that could be focused on your current role and serve up to a 5-
year time horizon.
 Your learning objectives can be both strengths you would like to refine, or use more, and
development gaps you have identified

Individual Leadership Challenge

 In your current role, what leadership challenge is a real stretch for you and will give a
measureable benefit to EGA?
 Why is it important to you and what would be the payoff of your working on it?
 What are the agreed deliverables?
The Art of Asking Powerful Questions

Activity: Think about a current issue you are facing. It can be at work or at home
Write the answers to the questions asked by the facilitator, below:

1. Based on the current issue, what is it that you are trying to achieve?

2. What does success look like?

3. What are you trying to achieve long term in this situation?

4. Where do you have the greatest control or influence about what you are trying to
achieve?
5. In this situation, what is happening right now?

6. How are you feeling about what is happening right now?

7. Intuitively, what is really going on here?

8. In this situation what have you tried already and with what impact?

9. What do you think might be holding you back in finding a way forward?
10. Moving forward, what options are you considering?

11. What other options might there be?

12. If you had more time, what options would you create?

13. If you had less time, what might it force you to do?

14. If you think of someone who can handle this kind of situation really well, what do you
think they would do?

15. Given those options you have generated, which one do you choose?
16. If you have choice, what first step do you take?

17. By when will you have taken the first step?

The GROW model- How to structure your questions?

G for Goal: What do you want to achieve, what would be a good outcome for today’s
conversation, what do you need help with?

R for Reality: What is your current situation like today? How do you feel about it? What
have you done so far?

O for Options (Opportunities and Obstacles): What options do you have? What
obstacles do you foresee? What is the opportunity?

W for Way Forward: What really matters? What actions will you take? Who can support you?
When will you do it?
Reflections about your challenges
Notes from discussion with your groups
Closing of the session: Learning and accountability

1. What are some key take away from today? What will you apply with your team?

Asking open ended questions, perception of others benefits without collaboration.

2. What have you realised today about yourself and your leadership challenge?

I may end up making conclusions because of my experience but not necessarily they
are always correct. How do I intend to use top management influence to help me with
the challenge.

3. What is the one action you will take to move forward on your challenge, and you
will concentrate on till the next month?

Conducting a workshop with the stakeholders to proceed with the collaborative

approach.
Module 2:
Checking in at the beginning of the session

1. What actions have you taken since last group session?

2. What worked?

3. What did not work?

4. What do you need to do differently during this session to progress your leadership
challenge better with the help of the other leaders of the group?
Closing of the session: Learning and accountability

1. What are some key take away from today? What will you apply with your team?

2. What have you realised today about yourself and your leadership challenge?

3. What is the one action you will take to move forward on your challenge, and you will
concentrate on till the next month?
Module 3:
Checking in at the beginning of the session

1. What actions have you taken since last group session?

2. What worked?

3. What did not work?

4. What do you need to do differently during this session to progress your leadership
challenge better with the help of the other leaders of the group?
Closing of the session: Learning and accountability

1. What are some key take away from today? What will you apply with your team?

2. What have you realised today about yourself and your leadership challenge?

3. What is the one action you will take to move forward on your challenge, and you will
concentrate on till the next month?
Module 4:
Checking in at the beginning of the session

1. What actions have you taken since last group session?

2. What worked?

3. What did not work?

4. What do you need to do differently during this session to progress your leadership
challenge better with the help of the other leaders of the group?
Closing of the session: Learning and accountability

1. What are some key take away from today? What will you apply with your team?

2. What have you realised today about yourself and your leadership challenge?

3. What is the one action you will take to move forward on your challenge, and you will
concentrate on till the next month?
Module 5:
Checking in at the beginning of the session

1. What actions have you taken since last group session?

2. What worked?

3. What did not work?

4. What do you need to do differently during this session to progress your leadership
challenge better with the help of the other leaders of the group?
Closing of the session: Learning and accountability

1. What are some key take away from today? What will you apply with your team?

2. What have you realised today about yourself and your leadership challenge?

3. What is the one action you will take to move forward on your challenge, and you will
concentrate on till the next month?