What assessments are appropriate to use within your coaching niche? Based on the previous week’s (Topic 1, Client Dialogue) intake meeting, what assessment(s) is/are appropriate to use with the spec

Dialogue

Dialogue

The following is a dialogue between the client.

Coach: Hello, good morning, how are doing?

Client: Good morning, I am doing fine thanks for asking.

Coach: ooh that’s great, I communicated with you last week, and I left you with some questions you needed to reflect on. “Are there any places in your life where you feel incomplete? Where in your life are you feeling burdened or overly stressed? What area in life professionally or otherwise needs to be shifted or cleaned up?” You called me the other day and said you had some problem that has been bothering you for a while and it was related to my second question, are you ready to dig into that a more with me today?

Client: yeah, that’s right, over the past months I have been depressed so much I have tried various medications, but still there is no change.

Coach: How long have you had depression, and have you seen a therapist or a physician regarding your depression?

Client: For a year now, but the last few months have been hectic. Yes, I have been seen by my physician and therapist, and they told me the medication isn’t the problem and referred me to you for a different perspective and help me with possible life adjustments to reach my professional goals. In another word I have had it managed and attainted all my professional and health goals until the last four months. So yes, my therapist told me to find a life coach.

Coach: Great, so let’s figure this out together and make a change to get you back on track. Has anything significantly changed in your life around four months ago?

Client: I met my boyfriend five months ago.

Coach: How would you describe your relationship and what kind of a person is your boyfriend?

Client: Our relationship is going great, he is a very nice person, supportive, funny, and he cares about me. I mean we are not perfect, but no one is.

Coach: Not perfect like what? Please tell me more.

Client: He is a solder, but he is very short-tempered, last week we had a small fight, and they have been happening a couple of times a week.

Coach: You had a lot of things to say good about him, and I know you mentioned you wanted to get back on track professionally and stated he was very supportive? Any issues in a relationship can add stress and create a negative response. We discussed what I do as a coach over the phone and part of what I do is help you prioritize your goals and help clients take control of there minds and focus on what they want, and then we accomplish it together. “How long has it been since you have experienced joy and fulfillment?”

Client: What does that have anything with me being depressed or my relationship?

Coach: For me to understand what roadblocks we are dealing with, if they are in my scope of expertise, I must connect the dots and establish the core and root of the reason for your loss of drive and motivation and focus. This will allow me to know if I can help you.

Client: I have been happy many times and felt accomplishment, and I would say I felt fulfillment when I bought my first house a couple of years ago all by myself and had no help. I felt strong and independent and earned everything I through hard work. If I was completely honest the last time I was full of absolute joy was when I traveled around Europe and when I was last on vacation a few years ago. I like being free doing things myself, I am young and very successful for my age, and I have been moving up fast at my job accomplishing nothing any another woman has in the company’s history. I am the COO of a fortune 500 company.

Coach: So, your independent and a very driven person and like doing things yourself. Hard work and personal work ethic drive you. Do you love your job? What professionally do you want to accomplish next? What’s holding you back from taking a vacation now?

Client: I do love my job, but of late I have been so busy, and the work has been piling up, and I don’t have time for my boyfriend, I have no chance of even resting. Sometimes I feel like quitting, but each time I think so, I feel guilty because I have e worked so hard to be where I am, and this is all I wanted. I want to be the first woman CEO in my company’s history, and I guess the only thing holding me back for taking a vacation is my relationship right now. I am trying to make it work but kind of lost sight of other things.

Coach: I understand, the first thing that I will suggest to address any work-life goals to accomplish next month, but if that is not possible with your overload right now, take a week and explore the world a bit or take a vacation somewhere. A personal reset.

Client: Thank you so much,

Coach: Anytime.

In this dialogue, active listening skill is essential. First, active listening encourages the listener to talk and listening to great things at greater depth, such depth of discussion helps to expose underlying problems, which the speaker could not have recognized at the beginning. Secondly, the elements of listening skills such as empathy made the client open about what she was suffering from, last but not least through active listening skills stimulate the channels of motivation energy.

References

Halona, Kelby; Consonant, Terry; Coakley, Carolyn; Woven, Andrew (1998). "Toward the establishment of general dimensions underlying the listening process". International Journal of Listening. 12: 12–28. doi:10.1080/10904018.1998.10499016.

Purdy, Michael and Deborah Boris off, eds. (1997) Listening in Everyday Life: A Personal and Professional Approach. University Press of America. ISBN 9780761804611. p. 5–6.