Congratulations! You did it. Over these last 7 Days of Coaching my aim has been to highlight areas in your life and leadership where you have opportunity to grow, provide you with a tool to help you consider where you are, and give you some questions so you begin thinking about achieving the growth you are seeking.
To summarize, here’s a recap:
Day 1: Peace Index
Scenario: Get a quick snapshot of how you are doing by assessing various factors in your life and how they are contributing to your overall well-being.
Coaching questions:
- Is there one or more of the five areas which is disproportionately affecting your overall Peace Index?
- What is one or two action steps you can take in the next 30 days to make a real difference in that one area?
- Can you describe what your life looks like if your Peace Index is 95-100? What action steps can you take in the next 30 days to begin moving in the direction of the life you imagine?
Day 2: 70/30 Principle
Scenario: You must pay attention to the level of energy and effort you are giving to different areas of responsibility.
Coaching questions:
- What is your current balance? Are you at 70/30 or leaning more heavily in one direction or the other?
- What areas of your work allow you to invest your most effective energy?
- What areas of your work are the most challenging for you?
- Where do you need to make changes to get closer to a 70/30 balance?
- If you can’t make those changes now, what steps will you put in place to bring awareness to your team that you are out of balance?
Day 3: Support/Challenge Matrix
Scenario: Leaders who seek to empower and inspire those they lead need to bring an equal measure of both support and challenge to every context.
Coaching questions:
- Where would you say your leadership tends to reside in the support/challenge matrix?
- Would the people in each circle of influence say this is true?
- What behaviours do you recognize in yourself as high challenge or high support within different circles of influence?
- What could you change as part of your intentional leadership development toward being a liberating leader?
Day 4: Circles of Influence
Scenario: Live a life of integrity where who you say you are publicly is who people know you to be privately in every area of your life.
Coaching questions:
- What’s on your mind as you see your leadership represented in each circle of influence?
- Have you been intentional about developing this kind of leadership within these different circles of influence?
- Where have you been accidental in allowing your tendencies to take over?
- Where do you need to make adjustments for the sake of the people you lead in one specific circle of influence?
Day 5: 5 Voices
Scenario: What’s it like to be on the other side of you?
Coaching questions:
- What is your emotional response to the idea that what is being said and what is being heard may not be the same thing?
- How do you feel about position yourself as the leader in a way which serves those around you?
- Have you ever been confronted with someone’s experience of you being much less ideal than what you had intended?
- What changes, if any, did you make out of that interaction?
Day 6: 5 Gears
Scenario: Learn how to be both fully productive and fully present in your life and leadership.
Coaching questions:
- Thinking about your team at work, when are some times you can proactively create some 3rd gear time to be more social as a team?
- What healthy boundaries can you create to promote and sustain the benefits of 3rd gear at work?
- What would your calendar look like if it were to reflect a “5 Gears” life of being fully productive and fully present in both the work and relationships which mean the most to you?
- How do you see this productivity and presence impacting the legacy you hope to leave?
Day 7: Prohibition & Inhibition
Scenario: You’re feeling stuck and not sure how to move forward.
Coaching questions:
- Identify a clear example of each type of obstacle you’re facing in your leadership – a barrier, a hurdle, and a gap.
- Rather than seeing these as prohibitions, what new possibilities do you see as a path forward for success?
- Who says you can’t?
All the best from me as you continue to grow in your leadership journey. Don’t hesitate to reach out if there’s anything else I can do for you!
