Creative Journaling for Leaders and Learners

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:37

Journal-based coaching really has taken on a lot of different nuances, and when you think about journal-based coaching, I think about the book the Progress Principle by Teresa Amable. She used journaling to actually create contextual, if not statistical, reference to the benefits of progress. What she noticed? That when people journaled where they were progressing, they found out when they were progressing they were at their most motivated state. The value of journaling, now, one of the things that we teach in Progress Coaching is to actually take the time and observe other people and journal, and so, if you want to learn good presentation skills, learn from somebody by watching them or watch a TED Talk and then journal what are the three things they did? Well, what the person eventually is doing little do they know is they're actually coaching themselves. Now we actually created a whole series of journal-based coaching books and essentially people journal and we actually embed audios into the books providing instruction, questions, thought, and then we have a thought-provoking and then people journal based on what they actually learned.

Speaker 1: 1:49

Here's the value of journaling when we bring other senses, other learning modalities, if you will, or learning techniques into play, we tend to retain more when you watch a presentation versus watch a presentation and then actually write down what you learned and then share it with somebody. You're more committed to improvement or retention as it relates to that particular area that you've been learning. Journal-based coaching is applicable in a lot of different ways, so one of the things that we just launched is something called cadence coaching. So when I think about cadence coaching, cadence is when we send out content and we're teaching how to coach, for example. Then we're asking what we call question sets what did you learn? What's an area that this could be applied to? What's a challenge that resonates with you when you go through this content? And what they're essentially doing is journaling what they learned. When we see that we now can collaborate based on their world, journaling is one of the most valuable things that we could do, and we have to, as leaders, be creative in the way we facilitate it.