In Workshop Three, you conducted your first life coaching session using the questions from your Welcome Packet and the empowering questions you developed reflecting the eight categories.
In this assignment, you will do an in-depth analysis of your coaching session using concepts learned earlier in this course. The purpose of this analysis is two-fold: 1) to gain clarity about your coaching subject’s needs and wants in preparation for your second and final coaching session in Workshop Five and 2) to assess your own coaching approach and make any desired adjustments in preparation for the second coaching session.
Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:
· Analyze the needs of the coaching subject and of the coaching approach.
Background Information
This assessment of your first coaching session is perhaps the most important task of these coaching sessions. It is your opportunity to step back and take an objective look at how the session unfolded, what you did well, what you would like to change, and where you want to go with the next coaching session. If you made mistakes, don’t despair. These are designed as practice sessions and the only way to improve a new skill is to repeatedly practice. Learn from any mistakes you might have made and make the necessary corrections as you approach your second coaching session in Workshop Five.
Instructions
1. Read Chapter 11 in your textbook, Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach Training.
2. Watch the YouTube video “Top 10 Coaching Mistakes”:
3. In a four- to five-page paper, respond in detail to the following:
a. What are your coaching client’s expressed primary needs/desires?
b. What are your coaching client’s expressed primary obstacles/struggles?
c. What are your coaching client’s limiting beliefs about themselves?
d. What stage of change (Stages of Change theory) is the coaching client in at this point as it relates to the main behavioral change they want to realize?
e. What do you still need clarity on with your coaching client in order to help them create an action plan?
f. What concepts of positive psychology would you like to emphasize more?
g. What did you think you did well in the coaching session?
h. What adjustments would you like to make in your coaching approach in the next coaching session?