CREATING MOMENTUM

Forwarding Action

-At the heart of the coaching relationship
-Helps clients move from insights to specific steps
-The idea that learning and action go hand-in-hand
-Coaches should be aware of:
------New perspectives, emotions, and behaviors the client might need to succeed
------How the client might be able to turn new perspectives, emotions and behaviors into habitual practice
-Help the client discover:
------what they value (and how those values impact their lives)
------how they have been sabotaging themselves
------how to create balance (rhythm more than balance...find their natural rhythm or seasons)
------how to gain perspective
-Helps the client discover what works and what doesn't
-Encourages new insights and understanding (the new and unknown)
-------Listen for when client is focusing on things that are familiar and "status quo"
-Focus on truth
------Challenge client to move away from old assumptions
-Encourage new actions/activities, even if scary
------scary is not necessarily bad
------clients are in a good place when they are a little nervous about a new activity
-Model forwarding action in your own life as a coach

Fieldwork

-Homework
-Part of "Forwarding Action"
-Creates accountability for the clients to move forward
-Should be specific
-Should be client directed
-Should take into consideration
------results-oriented action
------awareness observation
------practices to create new habits

Results Oriented Action
------easiest and most obvious assignments
------directly and clearly further clients movement toward goal

Awareness Observation
------improve clients ability to take note of habits and patterns
------have client observe and record self and others
------information gathering

Practice to Create New Habits
------specific actions client engages in to build cognitive and behavioral habits
------repetition creates new, healthy habits to replace old, unhealthy ones

FORWARDING ACTION SKILLS

-Accountability
-Contracting
-Acting "as if"
-Stepping into the future
-Creating alternative actions and practices

Accountability

-All Clients are fully accountable for their actions
-Accountability requires regular contact with client
-Leads to sustainable results
-Client commits to action at the end of session
-Coach needs to ask about
------action taken
------results from action

Contracting

-Creating a verbal agreement for action
-Jointly establish client's plan to move forward
-Plan can include general behavior and/or specific action
-Can be verbal or in writing
-Can ask clients to check in (or update you on progress) between sessions

Stepping Into the Future

-Similar to "acting as if"
-A kind of "preview" of the steps
-Client visualizes a detailed view of the future
-Helps client see potential possibilities
-Helps client see potential obstacles and plan ahead for them

Creating Alternative Actions and Choices

-Happens as a result of collaboration between coach and client
-Takes awareness and ability to "think outside the box"
-Requires ability to build problem solving skills
-Requires ability to be aware of problems in problem solving
------Functional Fixedness: having a fixed perception of what works
------Confirmation bias: having a fixed perception of what might be the problem
------Mental set: only trying what has worked in the past

	Created by heinrichs.mark almost 11 years ago

First Year SBC CO205 Life Coaching Note on October 10th-Creating Momentum, created by heinrichs.mark on 10/10/2013.