Laser Provision
Today's Provision concludes our series of 23 interviews with
current and former coaching clients. It provides a great perspective not only on
the coaching process but also on the more profound question of how and why
people change. If you are contemplating making some changes,
then perhaps this Provision will enable you to get going in the right direction.
And please don't hesitate to give us a call if you think we can lend a hand.
In This Issue
1. On The Web: Study Success Go There
2. Provision: Coaching Metaphors Go There
3. Readers' Forum: Selected Reader Replies Go There
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5. Book Recommendation: Go Put Your Strengths To Work by Buckingham Go There
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1. On The Web:
Study Success by Bob Tschannen-Moran
Quick: what's the best way to become more successful? Is it better to study and
fix your weaknesses or is it better to study and build on your strengths? If
you're like most people -- in fact, 87% of the people -- then you picked the
first option. Something there is about weaknesses that gets our attention.
Indeed, for many people mulling over and repairing their flaws is a favorite
pastime and preoccupation. We feel so noble when we acknowledge our failings and
take responsibility for turning them around!
Unfortunately, positive psychology research reveals that deficit-based
corrections are not as effective as strengths-based enhancements. That's the
guiding principle behind the practice of appreciative inquiry, whether in
coaching or in organizational development. The more we know about our strengths,
the better our changes will be.
Example: in a
1982 University of Wisconsin study, unskilled league bowlers improved their
scores more from positive self-monitoring (watching video recordings of their
successful shots) than from negative self-monitoring (watching video recordings
of their unsuccessful shots). In coaching and in organizational development,
then, our approach assists people to do more of what they do well rather than to
do less of what they do poorly. It's all about positive self-monitoring.
One book that effectively applies this concept is
Go Put Your
Strengths To Work by Marcus Buckingham. It can be used with our without a
coach to leverage your strengths for success. If you have not already done so, I
encourage you to work the program today.
Coaching Inquiries: What are your greatest accomplishments in life and work?
What do you do well? What things fill you with energy, life, and laughter? How
could you do more of those things? How could you leverage those things for
success in other areas? Who could work with you to find out?
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2. Provision #574: Coaching Metaphors by Bob Tschannen-Moran
There is considerable debate raging under the surface of the coaching
profession as to how coaching actually assists people to do learn and grow. The
prevailing model, codified in the International Coach Federation's Core Coaching
Competencies, is that coaches are process rather than content experts. We do not
instruct, teach, and advise as much as we listen, inquire, and inspire. "The
client has the answers" and "the client does the work" are two mantras of the
coaching profession.
Other voices beg to differ. Consider the following definition of coaching put
forward by Dave Buck, the President and Chief Experience Officer of CoachVille:
Coaching is the process of "inspiring an individual or team to produce a desired
result through personalized teaching, expanding awareness, and designing
environments." In other words, sometimes the client does not have the answers
and sometimes the coach does the work of leading the way.
So when do we lead and when do we follow? When do we teach and when do we get
out of the way, so clients can teach themselves? These questions go to the heart
of transformational coaching. And the answers are as varied as the clients
themselves. At its best, coaching is an intuitive dance, with the coach serving
as a masterful partner on the dance floor of life. We know when to push and
when to pull, when to speak and when to listen, in order to move as one with the
client in the cause of human development.
The 23 interviews we conducted with current and former clients in this series,
and the metaphors they generated, demonstrate the uniqueness of how coaching
works in the rough and tumble realm of real life. To survey all the metaphors at
once provides a breathtaking view of what coaching means not only to individuals
but to our world today.
1. Coaching as Art Appreciation. We started off interviewing a physician,
who spoke of coaching in terms of art appreciation. "When you and I talk," he
observed, "it's as though there are three people in the room. You, me, and my
story. Together, like students, we step back to observe and to study my story as
though it were a piece of art. By getting me to step back, you enable me to see
things I might otherwise have missed. By keeping the tone appreciative, you
enable me to keep working on my goals even when I am not doing as well as I
would like. The poems you shared with me really impacted my morning routine."
2. Coaching as Scenic Overlook. From the doctor's office we turned to a
realtor, who also appreciated the big picture perspective that coaching brings
to life and work. As an essentially self-employed sales professional, she of
course wanted to improve her production. But she also wanted to improve her
life. "I needed to learn how to stop working so hard and to enjoy life more,"
she reflected. "I discovered it was all connected. The better I felt about
myself and the more risks I took personally, the better I did professionally.
Through coaching I learned how to make my own luck."
3. Coaching as Purposeful Change. Improved production is not, of course,
a balanced measure of success -- not even for a corporate Vice-President of
sales. He came to coaching to get in shape and to better organize his work life.
Through coaching he identified other, more life-changing goals that have made
his heart sing. "My original goals were 'straw dogs,'" he noted, "to take steps
toward something different without taking risks. Once I got clear about my
values and my future self, I went in a completely different direction. I am now
a paid actor with dreams of one day doing that full time." Now that's purposeful
change.
4. Coaching as Safety Net. Big changes are scary changes. Since no one
knows for sure what the future holds, we can let our imagination go wild. When
that happens, coaching provides a safety net enabling us to let go and to jump.
It anchors us in the present moment so we can embrace the flow of what's
happening, and what's required, in the here and now. "I came to coaching because
I had had a rough experience in my last position and I wanted to find a new
position where I could excel," said a public school superintendent. "Between all
the second guessing and nervous waiting, it was easy to get paralyzed let alone
to take good care of myself. Coaching provided the support I needed to go for my
dream with greater self-awareness and healthier daily habits."
5. Coaching as Philosopher's Stone. The notion of going for a dream often
conjures up images of changing positions or doing something completely
different. And, indeed, that often leads to and follows from effective coaching.
But not always. The philosopher's stone, to borrow an image both from our
interview with the relationship marketing director of a major pharmaceutical
company and from the ancient Myth of Sisyphus, is to find new meaning and
purpose in the tasks we have been working at all along. "It's tough in business
today," notes our client, "and it's a challenge to perform optimally without
engaging in self-destructive behavior. Whether it's working too much or eating
too much, it's easy to compromise ourselves. I know I have succumbed to both
temptations, and I also know that coaching has assisted me to gain perspective
and to do better."
6. Coaching as Booster Rocket. Our next interviewee, an aspiring business
and life coach, has used coaching as an apprenticeship to jumpstart both his
coaching skills and his practice. "I think of coaching as a booster rocket," he
notes, "and also as a great, cosmic workout machine. It's the best way I know to
put feet under your dreams. If you have something you want to do, that's gnawing
at you, that you've been procrastinating about, or that you've been working at
but are not being as successful at as you would like, then give coaching a try.
It will stretch you and assist you to build muscle for the challenges and
opportunities of life."
7. Coaching as Dancing Freely. All work and no play not only "makes Jack
a dull boy," it also makes coaching ineffective. After several weeks of being
focused on productivity and performance, we turned our attention in this
interview to a project manager who needed to lighten up. "Not only was my
profession intense," she remembers, "but so was my approach to self-improvement.
I read all I could and worked really hard. Coaching enables me to let that go
and to dance more freely in the direction of my dreams. Everything else is now
secondary to loving myself and living without fear. It's as though I can finally
hear the music, after years of feeling like I was trapped in a car with no
radio. The music I hear now has a beat that makes me want to jump into the
street, dancing all out, for everyone to see."
8. Coaching as Trusted Friend. Some coaches limit their work with clients
to 90 days or less. LifeTrek invites clients to work with their coaches for as
long as they want, and to start and stop along the way. That's because coaching
has many similarities to a trusting friendship, as experienced by a medical
doctor who came to coaching with dreams of retirement in about a decade. "In
running my own practice," he observed, "it's hard to find people to talk with on
a peer-to-peer basis. I wanted to talk with someone about my plans, my practice,
my anxieties, my finances, and even my marriage, but I wasn't sure where to
turn. These are not things I normally talk about with anyone! Nevertheless, as a
long-time reader of LifeTrek Provisions, I contacted you for coaching with the
hope that such a conversation would be possible. And, indeed, you became a
trusted friend, outside my everyday world, with whom I could ventilate, develop
my half-baked ideas, and discus my plans. Your book recommendations really
enhanced my learning. Having now purchased and begun construction on our
retirement property, we've moved from contemplating the future to taking
action."
9. Coaching as Breath Work. Ironically, we sometimes have to slow down
and even to stop in order to take that action. We have to jettison our baggage
and break our negative thinking patterns in order to move forward on a different
track. Coaching, like breath work, can introduce the mindful pause that releases
our pain and opens the door to possibility. "I find it easy to be self-critical
and to beat myself up," confided an electrical contractor, "and that creates
quite a haze through which to live, work, see, and move. Coaching enabled me to
clear the air and to develop a clean intention of my future self. From there,
finding a new position in my current field, in a more desirable geographical
location, fell right into place. It would not have happened without the
intentioning work we did together."
10. Coaching as Couples Campfire. But what happens when the client is a
married couple, each of whom have different intentions for the future? That's
when it's time to sit before at least a metaphorical, if not a real, campfire,
together with a competent coach, in order to sort things out and work things
through. "I came to coaching first," remembers the husband and CEO of a small,
family-owned business, "but it quickly became apparent that my wife -- who also
served as our Sales Manager -- needed to join the conversation. We had different
visions for the company and even for our relationship as a couple." "In
reality," noted the wife, "there was lots of tension and we were hardly talking
to each other. Coaching assisted us to become less critical and more caring. We
listen more attentively and share more intimately. I ended up leaving the
company and we are now working on a vision for retiring to the Caribbean."
11. Coaching as Adventure Gear. How's that for an adventure! It's no less
exotic than the other couple we interviewed who ended up selling their home, and
most of their belongings, after two successful careers in information
technology. "Coaching assisted us to take the plunge on something we had been
talking about a for a long time," observed the husband. "We decided to buy a
recreational vehicle and to travel around North America for a year. Since we
knew this would be an intense and critical time for our relationship, we also
decided to take our coach along on the adventure. Regardless of where we were,
we could still call in for our telephone coaching sessions." "And those calls
did assist us to focus on our identity, vision, and communication patterns as a
couple," continued the wife. "The coaching made us more respectful, attentive
and sensitive to each other. It was the gear that made the trip work even when
it became challenging, difficult, and strenuous. It set us up for life."
12. Coaching as Talking Mirror. If one couple took coaching with them on
a trip around North America, then others can call in from around the world. And
that's exactly what makes us an international coaching company. Take, for
example, our work with an Irish entrepreneur with grand designs on the U.S.
market. "For my dream to come true, I needed to attract a large amount of
venture capital," he remembers. "But I never would have done that without the
positive habits, systems, and attitudes we worked on together. With your
assistance, I was able to eliminate much of the frustration, clutter, and delay
in my life. I was able to increase my success by decreasing my stress. I was
also able to identify and focus on the leadership challenges that success would
bring. That includes not only my professional challenges, as CEO, but also my
personal challenges, as husband, father, and friend. I live a more balanced life
now than ever before, and coaching was part of making that happen. It was like
looking in a mirror that would talk back; I got to see myself with new eyes,
warts and all. It got to the guts of who I am and enabled me to move on."
13. Coaching as Sounding Board. So too for the finance director of a
large pharmaceutical factory in Puerto Rico. "I signed up for coaching because I
needed a sounding board," he recalls. "After being in the corporate world for
many years, I started my own system implementation consulting business in 1996.
But that was growing old and I needed to catch wind of a new vision for my life.
I didn't want therapy. I wanted someone who could assist me to design and
organize my life around my passion. I knew that if I got really excited about
something, the rest would fall into place. And sure enough, I quickly made huge
transitions. I left my apartment in San Juan and moved full time to a mountain
home in the country. From there, my relationships as well as my profession
changed dramatically. Your out-of-the-box perspective, not to mention your
contacts and wisdom, were exactly what I needed to reengage with the corporate
world and to disengage from my significant other. It was great to have a coach
by my side through those important transitions."
14. Coaching as Noise Reduction. Others have described the same coaching
dynamic in terms of getting out of our own way. It's as though coaching lowers
the volume on all the internal and external noise that we live with everyday so
we can hear and speak the voice of our own, true self. "I knew that I wanted an
exit strategy from my position at the bank and that I wanted to decipher my
options for the future," noted our next interviewee, "but I did not know how
much had to be weeded out in order for me to be successful. We did an enormous
amount of work on the things that were getting in the way, the things I was
tolerating, and I became very proficient at saying, 'No, I don't need that.'
Now, I've rid myself of tolerations and things that don't add value. I worry
less and I smile more. I've gotten more connected to the things that matter."
15. Coaching as Employee Benefit. Not every coaching client is an
individual. Sometimes, the client is a company or an organization which retains
a coach to work with one or more people who may be identified as high-potential,
at-risk, in-conflict, stressed-out, or otherwise able to benefit from working
with an external coaching resource. "I decided to make coaching available to the
top 30 people in the company," the CEO of a mid-size engineering company told
us, "because we had been through a tough reorganization and everyone was feeling
the pressure. Morale had become an issue." "Bad attitudes can come from so many
directions," observed the CFO, "we needed someone who could help us look not
only at the work environment but at the whole environment of our lives.
Fortunately, that was the perspective you brought to the coaching process." "And
it really made a difference," concluded one of the Engineer Managers who worked
with a LifeTrek coach for three months. "Life balance issues are not things we
normally talk about as a company. Performance rules when it comes to business.
Coaching elevated both the acceptability and the importance of life balance
issues, thereby assisting us to do better and to feel better all the way
around."
16. Coaching as HR On Call. Another company, in the consumer products
industry, has used LifeTrek Coaching as an adjunct HR resource over a period of
many years. Through cross-cultural projects, organizational restructuring,
succession planning, team building, performance improvement, and crisis
management, LifeTrek Coaching has been called upon to render assistance as
needed. "At this point, we have worked together for so long," notes the Vice
President of Human Resources, "that our trust level is high. Knowing that you
are only a phone call away, when it seems like a situation would benefit from
your coaching, makes our HR program both more effective and creative. We have
sometimes called you in by design, as a first response, and other times we have
brought you in to help with a difficult situation, almost as a last resort. But
either way coaching has been a welcome and effective intervention with our
executives and directors."
17. Coaching as 3-D Glasses. As an intervention, coaching often enables
people to see things in new ways. That was certainly the experience of our next
interviewee, a senior project analyst for a major U.S. corporation. It was, for
her, like putting on those special glasses to watch a 3-D movie -- things
suddenly came into focus and jumped out at her in fresh and surprising ways.
"Since I worked with my coach for 18 months, we had plenty of material to work
with," she recalls. "From health and fitness, to career development, to
relationship work we covered all the bases, generating many "light bulb" moments
along the way. My self-talk, my daily habits, and my overall perspective have
all improved. The coaching process has assisted me to get where I want to go."
18. Coaching as Guiding Light. Given the forwarding action of the
coaching process, and given his profession as an ordained minister, it came as
no surprise that our next client came up with "guiding light" as a metaphor for
coaching. "When I came to coaching," he notes, "I was in my first year of
employment at a new church. And I wanted to make it the best year possible. So I
came with my goals in hand as to what I wanted to accomplish at the church. Much
to my surprise, I ended up with a whole new set of goals that were more
life-goals than ministry-goals. I came to see how the two worked hand in hand. I
spend more time with my wife and children now, including family devotions, and I
write in my journal 4-5 times a week. These were things I used to preach, but
failed to incorporate in my only daily habits. Now all that has changed. I put
people before programs. Coaching has led me to this place like a guiding light,
and it is really peaceful."
19. Coaching as Healthy Relationship. That "peaceful, easy feeling"
captures the experience of another LifeTrek Coaching client who is a suburban
housewife, homemaker, and home-schooling mom. As someone who is, at times, out
of step with the prevailing culture (she describes herself as "an alternative
cosmic visionary"), and as someone who has recently suffered a tragic and
violent death in the family, this client is more than happy to pay for a healthy
relationship with her coach. Especially when it assists her to have healthy
relationships with all the other people in her life. "Because I frequently dare
to be different, it's not uncommon for people to challenge me about my choices,"
she observes. "That's why it's been great to work with a coach who affirms me
and who assists me to set and maintain healthy boundaries with those who
challenge me. And your support when my dad was murdered proved to be invaluable.
There's no way to say enough about how coaching has kept me going and moved me
forward."
20. Coaching as Spiritual Formation. Another LifeTrek Coaching client has
used the coaching process to develop her spiritual life. "Can you assist me to
find God?" was the way she put the question during her initial call. Since that
time, more than four years ago, we have been on a quest to see life through
sacred eyes -- and it's not just been a matter of perspective. "One of the
things I enjoy most about the coaching," she reports, "is the orientation around
spiritual practice. It has me doing things in the physical world in order to get
me connected to the spiritual world. So we have developed an elaborate set of
rituals which I practice faithfully on a daily basis in order to deepen my
spiritual life. Given my health challenges, those practices mostly take place
within my home. But they open my eyes to the movement of spirit around the world
and throughout history. Because of coaching I am more thankful and happy to be
alive."
21. Coaching as Life Raft. The attitude of gratitude also came up in our
next client interview, with someone who is both a mother and, with her husband,
the owner-operator of a small business. Owning your own business and dealing
with the buying public are enough to give anyone a bad attitude. Put that
together with a lifelong eating disorder and an existentialist philosophy of
life and you have a recipe for both despair and cynicism. So why would someone
like this come to coaching? "Because I haven't completely given up on doing
better," she replied. "Coaching was, for me, a highly personalized, highly
individualized, and never "medicalized" learning process. We shared common goals
and were figuring things out together. By coaching me through your marathon
training and eating programs, you have assisted me to do better in two areas
where other programs have failed. I am grateful for that and for life in
general. I'm still not a cheery and optimistic person. That's just not in me.
But I do enjoy my good days more now than ever before."
22. Coaching as Tiger Team. We interviewed another client who feels a lot
of pressure from his work as an engineering project manager in the aerospace
industry. The more he accomplishes, the more they give him to do, and the more
difficult it becomes to live a balanced and purpose-driven life. "What I
needed," he said, "was my own personal Tiger Team. We use that term to refer to
a team that analyzes systems in order to identify hidden or heretofore
unrecognized problems which might lead to performance declines, boundary
violations, workflow interruptions, and decreased earnings. I needed someone to
analyze my life that way, before I made too many more compromises. You embraced
my Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal -- to reduce the dependence of the United States
on fossil fuels -- and you have carefully worked with me to express that goal in
my life and work. I am still a long way from where I want to be, but I am much
closer than I would have been without coaching."
23. Coaching as Family Affair. Our last client was an extended family who
has worked together, as a group, with a LifeTrek coach to lose weight and get in
shape over the past 18 months. "Our vision was to transform the fat family into
the fit family," reports the inspirational lead sister in the group, "but we
ended up with so much more than just fitness. For one thing, since we live in
three different states, it was great to start talking with each other again on a
weekly basis. The connection was palpable. "And when we met, we didn't just talk
about the same old things," continued another sibling, "By joining together as a
coaching group, we became focused on health and fitness like never before. So
now, when we get together for holidays or special occasions, we eat differently
and are more likely to look out for each other." "The whole process has been
quite dynamic," noted the brother and only male in the group. "We modified our
environment as well as our habits in order to get going with new habits. The
weekly coaching call is a powerful accountability forum that assists us to do
better all week long."
So what have we learned about the coaching process? Perhaps a bulleted
definition, based on our interviews, will break it down best. Coaching is a
relationship, with two or more persons, that assists people to do better in life
and work by getting them to:
1. learn new skills
2. take new actions
3. develop new habits
4. design new environments, and
5. find new resolve in the face of difficulty.
Our interviews also gave us great insight into how the coaching relationship
gets people to do all that new stuff. Although the needs of each client are
unique, over time most coaching relationships include:
1. reflective thinking
2. storytelling
3. appreciative inquiry
4. provocative dialogue
5. role modeling
6. sharing experiences
7. values clarification
8. project collaboration
9. increasing awareness and gaining perspective
10. cultivating creativity
11. transferring knowledge
12. giving permission
13. setting boundaries
14. expressing feelings
15. releasing attachments
16. eliminating tolerations or energy drains
17. testing hypotheses, and
18. genuine caring.
Those 5 deliverables and 18 ingredients to a successful coaching relationship
may one day form a Provisions' series in their own right. But for now, we bring
this series to a close with the simple hope that you too will find the resources
and the wherewithal to change and grow in the direction of your dreams.
Coaching Inquiries: Do you want to make some changes in your life? Does it
sound like the process of coaching would assist you to shift from contemplating
those changes to getting into action? Why not give us a call?
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3. Readers' Forum
Editor's Note: The LifeTrek Readers'
Forum contains selections from the comments and materials sent in each week by the readers
of LifeTrek Provisions. They do not necessarily reflect the perspective of LifeTrek Coaching
International. To submit your comment
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Responding to your Provisions article about "drugs
doctors wouldnt take:" (1) I have been taking celebrex (and before that,
vioxx) for headaches for a few years now, with no noticeable side-effects. (2)
Ive been taking aciphex for heartburn on an occasional basis, after first
starting it to clear up a stomach ulcer 10 years ago. Thats not on the list of
drugs in the article, but my prescription insurance plan recently stopped paying
for aciphex and instead switched me (without my doctors orders) to nexium. Ive
heard people say "theyre the same thing" but Ill talk with my doctor about it
now. (3) I used to take the "old" Actifed for congestion, but its active
ingredient came under fire and the new Actifed doesnt work as well. Ive found
pseudoephedrin the only thing that seems to work now. Thanks for the tip about
this article!
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It sounds awful, all those medicines, but did you know that
doctors never administer their patients with what they have been taking
themselves? Think about it. In any case, my opinion, as a nurse, is that what
one likes, the other hates. So, to each its own. Bless you.
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coach, this series on Listening is the next best thing. Working through the 10
Keys, and listening to the audio recording, will assist you to reap the personal
and professional benefits of better listening. Order your copy today for $10
U.S.
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We also have a variety of other resources for as little as $1.50. Check out
these titles:
-- Mastering Your Money: Road to Financial Independence,
PDF or
Palm DOC
-- Ten Strategies for Success: Culled from America's Greatest Sports Coaches,
PDF or
Palm DOC
-- Get Motivated For Life: How To Give Your Best Every Day,
PDF or
Palm DOC
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May you be filled with goodness, peace, and joy.
Bob Tschannen-Moran, President
LifeTrek Coaching International
121 Will Scarlet Lane
Williamsburg, VA 23185-5043
Email: Click
Phone: (757) 345-3452
Fax: (772) 382-3258
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