Creating a sense of direction – the art of goals
Setting goals is a key part of coaching – imagining and articulating the destination, where we want to get to, is an essential stage in making change happen. In fact, in the popular GROW model of coaching, setting the goal is the first step – the G of GROW. We decide...
Setting yourself up for success through accountability
Want to do or change something but know you’re going to find it a struggle? Maybe you;ve tried before and not managed it? Find yourself setting goals or committing to new habits which you find it hard to stick to? Then accountability could be your friend…. When we...
Turning a new page
You don’t need me to tell you that it’s been a strange 12 months. But for me it’s also been a period of positive change. As the anniversary of the National LockDown on March 23rd approaches I find myself ready to turn a new page and launch my new website and...
Map of Choices
An exercise designed to enable you to reflect on what motivates and matters to you, based on previous roles. DOWNLOAD
Defining your Values
Clarify what your values means in practice so they can be more useful. DOWNLOAD
Identify your values
Adapted from Carol Wilson, Best Practice in Performance Coaching. DOWNLOAD
Understanding needs and behaviour
Abraham Maslow’s ‘hierarchy of needs’ was first developed in the 1940s and offers an explanation as to human behaviour that is widely in learning and development. His 1954 publication Motivation and Personality is the key source document for this theory....
Emotional Intelligence assessment
An exercise designed to help you identify your EQ strengths and areas of development. DOWNLOAD
Habits cheat sheet
When a behaviour has become habitual through repetition we no longer have to remember to do it instead it has become embedded subconsciously and we are therefore more likely to do it. Creating change might involve breaking ‘bad’ habits and/ or creating new ‘good’ ones...
Reverse Job Advert
This exercise helps you generate fresh career option ideas by drawing on other people’s ideas based on your own self-assessment of your skills/ strengths and what you’re looking for in a job. DOWNLOAD
Parallel Lives
This exercise helps you assess your career options against the criteria that matter to you. DOWNLOAD
Incisive Questions
Questions can be really powerful and challenging, helping us notice barriers to fresh thinking. DOWNLOAD
Imaginary Lives
This exercise helps you generate career option ideas. DOWNLOAD
Reflective questions
Various studies have shown the power of reflection at work – recent research cited in the Harvard Business Review1 suggests that reflecting on performance for as little as the equivalent of 60 mins per week improves results by over 20%. DOWNLOAD
Communications style assessment
Analyse your communication style to understand your strengths and shortcomings in terms of how you interact with others. DOWNLOAD
Wheel of Life
This exercise invites you to review your current satisfaction with different areas of your life as a starting point for determining your direction of travel. DOWNLOAD
Road Map
This exercise offers you a fresh way to think about and imagine your direction using ‘visual thinking’ – i.e. by drawing your ideas. DOWNLOAD
Understanding Motivation
Daniel Pink’s Drive: The Suprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2009) and Two-Factor Theory (aka Herzberg’s Theory) published in 1959, by Herzberg, Mausner and Snyderman. The Two-Factor theory explains the different factors which motivate and demotivate. Herzberg...
ExACT Goals
Within the GROW model of performance coaching, popularised by Carol Wilson and Sir John Whitmore, a critical first-step is to enable the coachee to generate a clear understanding of where they want to get to: a ‘goal’. The ExACT acronym prompts us to consider the...
Track Back
This exercise encourages you to focus on two areas of your life in the future where you want to make change and to identify the critical actions ‘or stepping stones’ along the way to achieving. DOWNLOAD
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