Coaching Conversations in 2025
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Coaching Conversations in 2025
Supercharging Career Conversations: Goal-Based and Whiteboard Coaching Strategies
Ever thought about supercharging your career conversations? How about harnessing the art of goal-based and whiteboard coaching to catapult your professional growth? This episode is your roadmap to these transformative strategies. We embark on a journey that starts with goal-based coaching, where the simple act of asking about Goals, Opportunities, Actions, and Love can be the catalyst for identifying areas of improvement and developing an emotional connection to one's goals.
Then, we transition to a deep dive into Whiteboard coaching. Here, we explore how visually mapping one's current and desired state, and the actions needed to bridge the gap, can be a powerful tool for self-awareness and career development. This technique is a game changer, enabling individuals to co-author their change and chart their professional progress. Intrigued? Reach out and we'll provide fillable PDFs to guide you through these coaching techniques. Let's turn your career conversations into stepping stones for success!
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Now, when it comes to career development, here are two of the greatest activities you can utilize in a one-on-one conversation or even a group scenario. Feel free to email us and we'd be happy to send you the PDFs that you can use in these endeavors. The first one is something called goal-based coaching. You ask somebody what's your goal? Write down your goal, what do you want to achieve professionally? And if you're open to it personally, okay, they write down their goal. The acronym of goal become your coaching questions. Now, the cool part is you can do this digitally on a whiteboard and you can do this physically in person on a whiteboard. The first question is the G of goal what do you need to be great at? What that does is it triggers them to realize where they need to perform better. It's a performance-based coaching question. Typically, you want to get two or three responses. Then you go to the O. If you become great, what opportunities will be afforded to you? That's the professional association goal. You want to get two or three responses. Then the A of goal is what actions or activities can we do together to facilitate the achievement of that goal? Notice how the G feeds the A or the O, and then the O feeds the A. It's amazing deep down when you build progression in the conversation, how much people know they need to practice, they need to improve, they need to raise their game. That's where the A question comes in. It's an activity-based coaching question.
Speaker 1:Here's the emotional attachment question, the L. What will you love about achieving this goal? Now, I love sharing this story. We had someone years ago who was in a call center and he swore you couldn't do more than 75 calls a day. When he answered the L question he knew if he reached his goal he would be able to take his family In his words, his lifelong dream to take his family to Ireland. Guess what we did? We changed his screensaver to the hills of Ireland. We put pamphlets from Air Lingus to Irish Airlines. We also put bed and breakfast pamphlets and then we also put golf pamphlets because he happened to be a golfer. Then we left him voicemails every Sunday night for like eight to 12 weeks in an Irish dial-up. We never told him who did this. Guess what happened. Not only did he receive his goal status, he achieved it. He went from 75 calls to an average of 103, which he said at one point. It was impossible to go past 75. See, when you understand goal and you get the L, you create the emotional attachment to the thing that most people avoid change.
Speaker 1:Here's the second activity Whiteboard coaching. You're going to have three columns. You're going to sit down and you're going to ask somebody as we sit here today, mark, in our current state, what do you do well? What do you feel like you have an opportunity to improve? What do you love about what you're doing? What do you like about what you're doing? What do you dislike or would like to have taken off your plate in your current job? Column one you write down the responses. Here's the key digitally or in person, you write down their responses. What they're looking at is the whiteboard. Now last month we covered self-awareness the whiteboard becomes their mirror. They're not looking at you.
Speaker 1:You go all the way over to column three and you say what's your desired state? What would you love to be doing? Would you like to be doing? What are some of the strengths that you have that would really position you for that destination successfully? Well, by the way, it's not always a promotion. And where do you feel like you have opportunities to raise your game to reach your destination?
Speaker 1:You write down everything in column three. Notice I went from column one to three. I skipped column two. That's called a psychological disrupt. We tend to go from left to right. Once column three is filled up, you go all the way over to the middle column and you say what actions do we need to take together to move you from column one to column three, to column three? Now what they've done is they're going to answer your question and little do they know. They've co-authored their own change, their own career development. Now again, if you want to send me an email, tim, at progresscoachingleadercom, I will send you the forms that you can just steal and use as much as you want, and they're fillable PDFs that will actually guide you through this presentation or this process of both goal-based coaching and whiteboard coaching.