Develop Your Coaching Mindset

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Strong Start Towards Your Next Successful Coaching Engagement

Coaching Conversations stimulate self-awareness, leadership insights, and actionable next steps toward your goals. The investment returns real-time results that are life-enriching and rewarding. Getting clear is the first step toward the results of a dream fulfilled, discovering purpose, or delivering on your priority commitments.

We begin with a leadership principle that will guide the conversation and coaching focus

Opportunities + Challenges = Growth

3 Questions…

  1. What opportunities are you considering?

  2. What challenges are you facing?

  3. How do you need to grow in your leadership?

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If you could work with passion, clarity, and discipline for the next 30 days what could you accomplish?

 

Greater Insights that Lead to Action

 

Opportunities - Get Clear!

  • What motivates you? - Achieving Goals, Solving Problems, or Seizing Opportunities… Describe what energizes you!

  • What’s a one word theme for your year?

  • What’s your 90-day Focus?

  • What’s your 1-year Goal?

  • What’s your 3 year Dream?

Challenges

Goals, Plans, and Strategies rarely go as expected.

  • What’s challenging you? Describe how it impact your life and work.

  • What captures the majority of your time and thoughts? Make a list if helpful

  • What consistently distracts you? Describe behaviors or poor habits that influence your ability to focus

  • How’s your resiliency? Describe how you respond to setbacks, changes, and unmet expectations

  • What’s your primary responsibility related to your challenge? Describes what’s in your circle of influence or out of your control

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Growth

When stretched we grow our capacity for more opportunities, responsibilities, and the rewards of meaningful results.

  • How would like to expand your influence and capacity?

  • What areas of your character needs to be strengthened?

  • What specific competencies would help you lead more effectively today?

  • Who can help you develop as a leader? Write down a few names of trusted relationships that come to mind: friends, mentors, advisors, peers, etc

  • What are 1-3 developmental actions could you take towards your leadership development? (Center for Creative Leadership has 50 Competencies on Compass . Review the CCL summary list here)

“The Probability of Completing a Goal If…
You have an idea or goal: 10%
You consciously decide you will do it: 25%
You decide when you will do it: 40%
You plan how you will do it: 50%
You commit to someone you will do it: 65%
You have specific accountability with a person you’ve committed to: 95%”
— Source: American Society of Training and Development (ASTD)

As you prepare for the coaching session your answers will stimulate great engagement with your coach. As your connection develops with your coach you will be invited deeper into your discovery and clarity for further growth getting your closer to your goals.