Slides: Managing the Plan of Action Part 1
Steve Elzinga
Coaching is
… about getting your client to some form of …
Three things coaches do to accomplish this:
- Help client figure out what they want to do (decision)
- Help client figure out how to do what they want to do (plan)
- Help client do what they plan to do (management)
Management is …
the process of accountability as the plan is carried out over time.
Why do people need help in managing the plan that they decided to do?
- Lack of endurance
- Lack of focus
- Lack of discipline
- Lack of support
- Lack of negative consequences
- Lack of positive reward
- Lack of criteria for success
What kind of management is not a part of coaching?
- Controlling
- “Don’t you think you should …”
- “Wouldn’t it be better if you ...”
- “In my experience ...”
What kind of management is not a part of coaching?
- Guilting and shaming
- “What is it going to take to get you to do what you said you would do?”
- “How do you expect things to change in your life if you don’t …”
- “How do you feel about wasting your time and mine as well?”
What kind of management is not a part of coaching?
- Pushing and directing
- “Don’t you think it would be better if …?”
- “I have found after many years of experience that ….”
- “I think if we spent more energy on ....”
What kind of management is not a part of coaching?
- Judging
- “Don’t you think you are just avoiding this issue?”
- “Why didn’t you do what you said you were going to do?”
- “Well, that wasn’t very good was it?”
- “Maybe it is time to try something new out because what we are doing is not working.”
What kind of management is part of coaching?
- Making the client accountable to the decision to do something about some aspect of his or her life and the plan chosen to make it happen.
- How does one do that?