Life coaching tools and techniques
The Beginner’s Guide to Life Coaching
A good life coach will implement many different tools for helping you, such as telephone conversations, online interactions, journaling, goal-tracking, homework and assessments. At the same time, they will always center their approach around your specific preferences and needs, making it possible for you to take ownership of your behaviors, actions and life.
Life coaching tools and techniques
There are a variety of models that coaches follow, as we’ll see later on. But in general we can say that most coaching adheres to the following process
1. Journaling as a life coaching tool
Journaling is a great coaching tool. It allows you to express your thoughts and feelings constructively, work through coaching issues, gain greater self awareness and more. Your coach might choose to assign thought-provoking topics for you to write about based on the work you are doing together. Journaling has been shown to be effective in a number of regards, including providing focus, improving health, and reaching goals more quickly.
2. Goal tracking in life coaching
Coaching is all about helping you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Setting goals and charting progress toward these goals is crucial in order to help you to know what you want, to create the motivation to achieve your aims, and to create a clear, actionable path to get there.
3. Life coaching homework assignments and action items
The key benefit of coaching is in helping you to create new strategies, behaviors and perspectives. Your coach asking you to take action is critical in this process, and setting homework is the perfect way to make taking action concrete. Your coach will set homework assignments that are specific and measurable, and which relate to the work you are doing in your coaching sessions. This creates accountability, giving you the push you need to follow through on your commitments and take action towards reaching your goals. Committing to action items and following through by responding to homework assignments is a proven way to reach your goals faster
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4. Life coaching assessments and forms
Coaching is all about getting you from where you are at to where you would like to be. Assessments can take a reading of the current terrain to show your coach where you are at right now. They also allow your coach to plot a clear plan of action in your coaching to see where you want to be and how they can help get you there.
For instance, when first getting to know you, your coach might create an assessment to plot out a variety of areas, such as your values, your goals for the next six months or your personal statement. They will use these to guide your coaching work together. Along your coaching path, your coach might create assessments targeted towards particular action items. For instance, if you are struggling with stress from having too much to do, your coach might ask you to complete a Priorities and Time management assessment which charts where you spend the majority of your time, and if whether it is aligned with their values and priorities.
Assessments help you and your coach pinpoint obstacles, challenges and opportunities in your path towards achieving your goals. Coaching assessments are so valuable because they allow you to assess yourself, measure your own progress, and thus become a better partner towards your own success.
What is the coaching pad?
The Coaching Pad is where you interact with your coach and track your coaching sessions and your progress. Within the Coaching Pad you can see your appointments, plan and follow up on coaching sessions, access your journal, track your goals and milestones, view your homework assignments, post progress reports, submit assessments, view resources, learn more about your coach, leave feedback, and more. It’s where you can access and use all your coaching tools.
Having all of this information in one place is extremely helpful. This is how you and your coach stay organized and focused on you and what you really want and need from your coaching sessions. It’s all saved for you so you can review all your coaching work at any point. You can access it from anywhere you have an Internet connection.
Your Coaching Pad can be found in your dashboard, at the top of the page. When you want to visit it, just click on the link for the on the link for the “Coaching and course pads” and select Coaching Pad.
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ReferencesIf you want to get more from your life, and are looking for concrete action steps to get you there, check out our Request a Coach page. It’s a “cut the fence-sitting and take action” way to tackle your issues and actually find success. You’ll be matched with the coaches most suited to you to get you from where you are to where you want to be. To get off the fence and start to take action, click or tap here.