Coach Training Isn't Just For Sessions or Crucial Conversations!
Love the picture above! Everyone is served via coaching:)
Yes, some of our trainees have set up coaching practices.Ā
Others have "hung up a shingle" and launched a side hustle offering coaching sessions.
But for the most part, our trainees use coaching in their current roles and relationships.
Here are a few of the most common spaces in which coaching culture is used:
- Pastors or Ministry Leaders use it pastorally to make disciples, not enable dependents.
- Business Leaders implement it in their one-on-ones and in passing conversational check-ins.
- Small Group Leaders engage in partnering with their group members as they walk out their personal journeys.
- Parents can use it with little ones as well as with adult children. With littles, parents teach them to grow in confidence and understand the consequences of their decisions. With adult children, the choices are broader, but the outcomes are very much the same - instilling confidence and assistance in weighing the consequences.Ā ...
How Are Your People Doing?
We all have people. Think of your circles. You have co-workers, neighbors, friends from your past, current friends, and family members younger than you and older.Ā
You interact with them in different ways. Maybe some you just wave to, but most you have some sort of conversation with. Those are the ones we are talking about today.Ā
Conversations make up the majority of our interactions with others.
How are your conversations going?
Are some repetitiveĀ - where they share the same "things" over and over, and you wish you could help them get unstuck?
Are some wistful - where they talk about their dreams, but they don't seem to be moving toward them?
Are some shallow - where you wish you could go deeper, but you aren't sure how?
Are some sad - where you want to offer hope, but they can't seem to break through?
The Coaching paradigm can help!
Coach training isn't just for aspiring professionals (but we set them up well too). Coach principles have shifted many stale conversations and...
10 Coaching Questions for Enneagram 5's
What else do we need to know?Ā
According to the Enneagram Institute,Ā Fives are alert, insightful, and curious. They are able to concentrate and focus on developing complex ideas and skills. Independent, innovative, and inventive, they can also become preoccupied with their thoughts and imaginary constructs. They become detached, yet high-strung and intense. They typically have problems with eccentricity, nihilism, and isolation. At their Best: visionary pioneers, often ahead of their time, and able to see the world in an entirely new way.
We have named personality type Five The InvestigatorĀ because, more than any other type, Fives want to find out why things are the way they are. They want to understand how the world works, whether it is the cosmos, the microscopic world, the animal, vegetable, or mineral kingdomsāor the inner world of their imaginations. They are always searching, asking questions, and delving into things in depth. They do not accept received opinions and doctrines...
Who Offers Them A Plan... GOOD NEWS! (and hard news...)
Wouldn't you just love it if you could see someone who would just tell you what to do when you were in a jam? If they were sage and savvy and could come through every time it would be well worth the investment.
GOOD NEWS! (and hard news...)
Here's the skinny. We DO have Someone we can go to for the plan! Our plan! Our personal best next steps!
The Holy Spirit IS our Guide! The coaching conversation helps us discern the plan God has for us.Ā Proverbs 4:11 says, "IĀ amĀ guidingĀ youĀ in the way of wisdom, andĀ IĀ amĀ leadingĀ youĀ on the right path."
Experience tells us it is not that easy though. So the good news is we DO have a Divine Guide, the hard news is we have to grow in learning how to discern. I don't know about you, but I swing that pendulum back and forth. Sometimes I am so sure that what I am sensing is the plan turns out not to work out. Does that mean I missed it? Or was it just a test? Other times I am paralyzed with concern or fear, or the cost seems too high and the decision ...