Develop Your Coaching Mindset
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…
What opportunities are you considering?
What challenges are you facing?
How do you need to grow in your leadership?
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
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)