Coaching For Everyday Conversations

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If you know coaching, you probably know at least some of the basic tenets. In our Coaching culture training, we dig into the pillars of Active Listening and Asking Powerful Questions. This alone is most often an intense culture shift. It's much more common to offer a solution based on our own education or experience than to be present for someone and offer a space for them to talk through their situation.

And yet we all love to be heard.

And most of us prefer not to be told what to do. (Check out the blog on the "instawall".)

In our Life Coach Certification, we give trainees three goals for their first coaching sessions:

1. Ask the person being coached to come with a focus.

2. Ensure the person being coached does most of the talking (80% goal)

3. Complete the coaching with an action step of some sort - even if it is to come back to the next session with a list of possibilities

All these are valuable practices, but not very common.

*Try it! If you are not yet coach-trained, try assessing a recent conversation and see if any of the above steps happened. Granted, you were likely just having a friendly conversation, not necessarily focused on helping the other person move forward, but what if....?

What if you could?

What if your regular conversations with friends, or family, or co-workers, or community members, could shift to a paradigm where you partnered with people to come alongside them and help them connect with what God has for them in the midst of whatever they are going through?

Maybe you don't want a career change. Maybe you are not looking to become a life coach.

But maybe you do have recurring conversations that could be beneficial and help people get unstuck.

Or maybe you are the one who is stuck, and an understanding of coaching culture could benefit you!?

How could upgrading your conversational tool bag benefit your daily life?

Who have you been having static conversations with?

God always offers a plan - coaching helps you discern what it is!

Coaching For Everyday Conversations

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