Coaching for Transformation: Pathways to Ignite Personal & Social Change by Brown Sharon & Michaels Richard & Kellogg Virginia & Lasley Martha

Author:Brown, Sharon & Michaels, Richard & Kellogg, Virginia & Lasley, Martha [Brown, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2016-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

See Goals and Action Planning Worksheet in Appendix 1

Based on the work of the balance wheel, some clients will identify many goals for each area of their lives, so encourage them to identify the 5 - 7 most important goals that will make the biggest difference in their lives. Working on more than seven goals at a time disperses their energy, so encourage your clients to focus .

Planning for successful goal implementation

To plan for successful implementation of goals, we can further explore:

How can you stretch yourself?

What would take you out of your comfort zone?

What resources do you need to accomplish each goal?

What predictable resistance or obstacles can you expect?

What accountability structures will inspire you?

What daily actions will serve you?

Who can you enlist to support you in reaching your goals?

How will you celebrate the milestones along the way?

Setting Stretch Goals

Without the challenge to set stretch goals, clients often take smaller steps than they are capable of. By challenging clients to create outrageous goals, we ask them to consider stepping farther than they might on their own. Even if they consider the outrageous goal to be too much of a stretch, they will settle on goals that are bigger than they would have chosen on their own (e.g. a stretch vs. practical goal).

Tips for setting stretch goals:

Make sure the goal is compelling

What makes this goal important to you?

Search for the growing edge

What would you do if you knew you wouldn’t fail?

How can you play a bigger game?

Balance the outrageous, ambitious and practical

What’s one ambitious element you could add to your goal and still achieve it?

How could you make that goal 10 times bigger and still achieve it?

What would make your heart sing?

Expanding Your Comfort Zone

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. —Anaïs Nin

Our comfort zone has the familiarity of an old couch. But everything now in our comfort zone was once unfamiliar. Life is full of choices. We can live our lives in fear of making mistakes or we can choose to act in alignment with our deepest values. Acting boldly and truthfully unleashes our full potential.

As we act on our courage, we don’t eradicate fear from our lives. As we evolve, our fears change shape, vacillating between sharp barbs that paralyze and gentle prods that keep us moving in the right direction. Courageous people learn to use fear as the signpost telling them where to go next. Fear serves as our personal invitation from life to develop our courage, character and our own personal code of honor. We learn to take action even when it isn’t always popular, safe or certain to do so. For example:

A coach-in-training, came to her coaching session excited about the prospects of living a more holistic life—combining her coaching skills and massage training. She also came weighed down by the obstacles—two small children for whom she wanted to be a fantastic mother and role model, an unsatisfying job and financial challenges that required her to keep a job until her business took off. She wanted support in designing her ideal life and taking the action steps to get there.

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