Transform Your Growth: Harness the Power of Journal-Based and Asynchronous Coaching

Unlock the secrets to becoming your own coach and transforming your personal growth journey. Through the power of journal-based coaching and the innovative OAT principle—Observe, Ask, Tell—you'll gain tools to foster self-awareness and enhance your learning retention, all while reducing stress. Inspired by Teresa Amable's "The Progress Principle," discover how tracking your progress through consistent journaling can significantly boost your motivation. We'll guide you through techniques that enable you to break free from the common self-awareness barrier and take charge of your personal development like never before.

Our episode also spotlights the dynamic world of asynchronous coaching, featuring insights from our guest, Philip, and his favorite client, Anne-Marie. Explore how platforms like Slack and Clarity Flow facilitate seamless communication that doesn't require scheduling, allowing for continuous growth and timely feedback. By maintaining an ongoing dialogue using text, audio, and video messages, leaders can keep progress at the forefront of their minds, revolutionizing the coaching experience. Listen in to learn how these innovative methods can elevate your coaching practice and drive both personal and professional growth.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:36

I want to introduce the audience to something called journal-based coaching, as well as something called asynchronous coaching. Now, there's a number of thought leaders in this space and I've actually been teaching journal-based coaching for years, I think when people journal and we subscribe to something that we've created called OAT Observe, ask and Tell when you observe other people and you ask questions of those people, or you ask questions of yourself and then you tell the T, you tell of your commitment going forward it can be a really powerful combination. So when you're going into journal-based coaching, one of the things we have to do as coaches is facilitate it. Of the things we have to do as coaches is facilitate it. So if I'm coaching someone with a negative attitude, I might say to that person to apply the OAT principle. I might say I want you to observe two things every week. I want you to journal observations of people who are really positive of one another and what they specifically did. After the observation ask yourself when do you do those things? And then tell us of your commitment going forward to represent those attributes that you observed.

Speaker 1: 1:49

When people journal, two things happen. One it increases learning retention. You're bringing another sense into it. You're writing it down. Journaling also heightens awareness and reduces stress. There's a great book called the Progress Principle by Teresa Amable, and she used what she calls a diarist, but it's really a form of journaling where people journaled every day where they were progressing, where they were having improvement. And she found out about 76% of people were at their most motivated state when they were getting better and their jobs were progressing. So it begs the question how did they uncover that? They journaled every single day? I think it was like for 90 days. And what's amazing about that is when you journal and you look down and you realize what you've journaled and you write it down, you're more committed to it, you're more aware of it and it reduces stress, and you do this on an ongoing basis, you start to create innate habits. Now, when you mention journaling to people, especially guys, you know he's equated to a diary. Yet when you observe other people, when you journal, you become your own coach. It cannot be stressed enough. You become your own coach and when you become your own coach, you develop self-awareness. 85% of people significantly lack self-awareness. It is the great detriment to people's personal development. If we are not committed to looking in the mirror, we'll never look at a mirror. If you don't look in the mirror, you're never going to be honest with yourself. So that's a high-level form of journal-based coaching.

Speaker 1: 3:35

Now, on the other hand, you can have something called asynchronous coaching. So the coach I work with, philip, we don't typically schedule time with each other. We don't schedule time with each other. What we typically do is we will share messages. He's in our Slack channel Now.

Speaker 1: 3:54

I also do asynchronous coaching. I use a number of tools like Clarity Flow and we now have our own coaching software and it allows you to send messages. One of the things about asynchronous coaching is if you make it a requirement or make it a framework of communication, such as Monday, wednesday and Friday, tell of two successes you had as a leader and maybe one that was a hindrance, and if people share that for like two, three minutes, two, three times a week call it six minutes a week then they can get feedback and insight from their coach. Here's the cool thing Instead of waiting for your next one-on-one, which could be in a week or two weeks, what you're really doing is streamlining the coaching conversation using asynchronous tools. Now I have one of my favorite clients of all time, anne-marie. We use tools and we send back text, audio and video, and if you have tools that allow you to do that, you can create an ongoing dialogue relentlessly, continuously, in a very targeted manner. Yet if I meet with her two weeks from now, she might forget some of the things because it's not top of mind. When you can grab top of mind and you can grab different tools that allow you to have conversations fluently, it is a game changer.

Speaker 1: 5:18

Let me give you another example. One of our clients is a CEO and he uses it all the time. He'll send me a message, I get a notification using one of the tools that we have and I will respond typically within two to three business hours. He said how do you do that? I said well, look, I can't do it with everybody all the time, but typically we're within eight business hours. You won't wait.

Speaker 1: 5:41

That's why, when you start a combination of journal-based coaching and then they use their journals and they start to communicate it to you in an asynchronous manner, and you have an application or a platform that allows you to respond in a quick and ready-made fashion that's easy to communicate, you start to create this ongoing dialogue. So when I work with my coach, philip, we have an ongoing dialogue all the time. So what he and I did, that I thought was really funny. And he has a great career coach his name is Philip Mianco. That just does an amazing job. And we looked back and here was the amazing thing Our communication and what I pay him. The time is less than if we were to schedule half an hour, 45 or 60 minute coaching sessions. So when you have things top of mind typically doesn't take 20 minutes to get it out. It could be two to four minutes. Then it takes Philip up about two to four minutes to get back to me and what happens is we start to create this ongoing digital dialogue. Think about combining journal-based coaching and asynchronous coaching.