Coaching System for Guiding Client Interactions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for managing interactions between individuals and clients are complex and lack a people-centric approach, failing to account for clients' personality traits, needs, and feedback to guide engagement effectively.

Innovation Solution

A coaching system that receives user profiles, monitors interactions, and provides guidance based on client feedback, utilizing cognitive services and modeling profiles to enhance engagement and achieve desired outcomes by considering clients as individuals rather than means to an end.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If existing methods like EPIC are used to manage interactions, then process innovation and continuous improvement can be achieved, but the methods become complicated and not people-centric

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocess improvementVSAvoidmethod complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors interactions and provides real-time feedback to individuals about their communication effectiveness. The coaching system analyzes interaction data, compares it against optimal patterns, and delivers actionable feedback to improve interpersonal skills while maintaining process improvement goals without adding complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables individuals to self-coach by providing them with personalized guidance and insights about their own interaction patterns. Through automated analysis of their communication behaviors, users receive tailored recommendations that empower them to improve independently without requiring complex external coaching processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of manufacture

If existing techniques are used to describe solution delivery, then technical processes are covered, but cognitive capabilities to understand personality traits, needs, and values are lacking

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesolution deliveryVSAvoidcognitive information
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments client information into distinct cognitive dimensions including personality traits, needs, values, and communication preferences. By dividing the comprehensive client profile into manageable segments, the system can analyze and apply each dimension appropriately to guide interactions without overwhelming complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of client cognitive profiles before interactions occur. By pre-processing and understanding client personality traits, needs, and values in advance, the coaching system can provide targeted guidance that accounts for these cognitive factors from the outset, preventing loss of important interpersonal information

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Stability of the object's composition

If traditional interaction management is used, then basic process control is maintained, but guidance based on real-time feedback is not provided

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocess controlVSAvoidinteraction effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements real-time feedback loops that monitor interactions continuously and provide immediate guidance to individuals. This maintains stable process control through structured monitoring while simultaneously improving productivity by enabling dynamic adjustment of communication strategies based on live feedback about interaction effectiveness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10783798B2Coaching system for guiding interactions
Publication Date: 2020.09.22 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for coaching an individual during an interaction with a client to produce a desired outcome. Aspects include receiving a user profile for the client, one or more needs of the client, and a goal of the interaction and receiving a modeling profile for the client and relevant environmental information for the client. Aspects also include monitoring the interaction between the individual and the client and analyzing a feedback of the client to actions of the individual and providing guidance to the individual to assist the individual in producing the desired outcome, wherein the guidance is based on the feedback.