In 750-1,000 words, write a reflection of your application/practice session from Topic 6. In your reflection;Explain the questioning strategy you used to determine the goals of your client.Describe so
LIFE COACHING PLAN FOR MY CLIENT
Life Coaching Plan for My Client
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July 11, 2018
Client situation
The client is a corporate marketing manager with one of the multinationals corporation aged 36 years. She is married with two children. She describes her marriage as that characterized by periods of mixed happiness. She discusses that she has been experiencing a surge in frustrations in her life. She doesn’t know what to do about it. She feels she hate her job, her marriage, and her body, but argues she is helpless in her situation.
Question strategy
Life coaching is highly reliant on creating rapport. (Nezami & Butcher, 2000) It is not about lecturing the client, but about allowing the client step back and reexamine themselves, in addition to helping the life coach capture the client situation. With the right questions, the coach is able to apply Proschaka’s six stages of development into the client situation. It is important to reflect first which stage a client is in. In this case, the client is in the pre-contemplation stage. She is definitely not sure about what to do about her situation, despite the lingering frustrations. She is seemingly helpless.
One of the first questions to ask a client who is in a pre-contemplation stage is what she really feels about their situation and what they really desire to achieve (Williams, 2015). It would also be important to ask what she has already done about the situation. An additional question would be about her preferences. Her skills levels and leadership strength vis a vis the organization query would also come up in the first level. More also, a question that targets understanding her key habits, values as well as motivations is vital at this stage.
In summary, the question strategy would target comprehending and assessing the client’s skills, preferences, goals, leadership qualities, key habits, and behaviors as well as her motivations.
Goals and objectives
Goals are an important milestone in life coaching. The coaching exercise should be characterized by both long-term and short-term goals. Life coaches should always understand that clients should own up the goals as people are motivated differently (Williams, 2015). As a result, coaches should let the client define their long-term objectives, while they figure a way out, or break the long-term goals, into short deliverable goals. The ability to break the goals into short deliverables is the area where a large number of clients cannot handle alone.
• Long-term objectives
The client should define their own objectives. This includes what they intend to achieve, what they want to be changed and where they desire to see themselves, let’s say in five years’ time.
• Short term goals
At this level, the coach should engage the client in defining the topics of discussion, the objectives of each session. Short term goals should have a way of motivating the client to reward themselves. A successful session that involved clearly defined goals and objectives should cover the goals, or tasks, reality, actionable results and verification.
Assessing client’s readiness for coaching
Client readiness for coaching is one of the key factors that determine the effectiveness of life coaching. Being an effective coach is not the sole factor that determines its effectiveness. In determining readiness for coaching a myriad of factors comes into play. (Kretzschm, 2010)
A client readiness for coaching is affected by factors such as their perception of class, financial capacity, knowledge about the benefits of coaching, as well as commitment to change. The financial aspects come into play because the exercise is time-consuming and hence life coaches do charge considerably reasonable amounts of money. It is not everybody who is willing to commit such finances if they don’t have a desire to change and prior knowledge of the benefits of coaching. In this case, the client is ready for coaching, and has a valuable desire and commitment to change, though she does not know her actual problem.
.An elaborate road map for meeting the client’s objectives
A road map is a very effective tool of motivating a client as it helps them keep in touch with a goal and its objectives. (Caillet, 2010) In addition, factors such as results, action, and reinforcers helps a coach navigate the exercise together with the client. The effectiveness of the coaching process is heavily reliant on the perceptions of the client and the commitment to the whole exercise. (Kretzschm, 2010)
| Current situations Desired situation | ||
| Unhappy with the marriage Poor performance at work. Feeling bad about my body |
| happy at home, both with the husband and children my performance at work should beyond per My body is good and I’m happy in it |
| Have no time for the family, busy attending conferences, have never hit the gym ,Feel lack of energy when handling clients | Actions
| I create time for my family and differentiate work and family issues, feels radiated when handling client, and hits the gym often |
| I feel always tired, do not care for what my husband does, and hate working under pressure |
| Feels reinvigorated, cares about my loved ones, and understand how to break my tasks into deliverables to avoid pressure |
| Health is not a necessity, my is my first husband and must strive to achieve at all costs |
| Health is a necessity, and my family is as important as my job. I should only do my best in my job place |
| Nobody in the family cares about me, there are unreasonable demands in the work place and no team work at all, and my boss is overly demanding. I have no goals beyond expanding my earnings through generating more commissions and achieving my targets | reinforcers | I frequently strive to achieve my targets within work-life balance, and I get happy when my family members appreciate my contribution. I also like working as a team |
Results
References
Caillet, A. (2010, july 10). Team coaching zone . Retrieved july 11, 2018, from Team coaching zone: http://www.teamcoachingzone.com/alexandercaillet/
Kretzschm, I. (2010). Exploring Clients’ Readiness for Coaching . International Journal of evidence based coaching and mentoring, 1-20.
Nezami, e., & Butcher, J. (2000). Handbook of psychological assessment. Goldstein,G;Hersen,Michel eds: Elselvier publisher.
Williams, P. &. (2015). Becoming a professional life coach: Lessons from the institute for life coach training (2nd ed.). New York,NY.US: New York,NY.US.
