How to Go Deeper with Advanced Coaching Concepts
There are multiple types of "Aha" moments available in coaching. Let's look at a few together:
- Choosing a specific focus when there were many worthy options to consider.
- Making a quality SMART goal.
- Recognizing a mindset that has been holding you back.
- Developing a plan to "maintain your gain" and keep up with the new habit or whatever you worked toward.
Like we talked about last time, having a coaching mindset starts with Active Listening and Asking Empowering questions. At its core, coaching culture chooses to put the other person first and prioritize what they are sharing.
We can do this as friends. We honor our family when we focus on whatever is important to them in a conversation.
Regular conversations are different. They can be two friends doing life together by sharing experiences and insights. They can be family chats sharing the highs and lows of life, or resolving scheduling issues. They can even be problem-solving in a group setting.
Most of the above deal...
Coaching Thoughts from JOSHUA at Sight & Sound
I got the privilege of going to the premiere of this year's Lancaster Sight & Sound show, Joshua! What a treat! I was asked to share my takeaways with a staff member there, so I decided to share them here for you as well.
Here's the email I sent, plus a little extra.
- I was personally challenged and encouraged that waiting can equal faithfulness. Moses had to wait before he was called to be the deliverer. The Israelites had to wait in the desert for 40 years before entering the promised land, and then another 40 years after the ten spies came back with a bad report. I am such an action-oriented person that waiting feels like a punishment, an act of passivity, fear, or disobedience. However, if waiting is what is being asked of us, then it is the exact right thing to do.
- I/we can wait in grumbling or gratefulness. It’s all about perspective. How many times have we judged the Israelites for grumbling when we do the same thing? We grumble just like they did when we say, “Well at lea...
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