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Coaching is working from a state of healthy functioning toward a future
goal based upon a strategic action plan. Coaching uses powerful, open-ended questions to help the person being coached become
the unique person they were created to be.
Since coaching is a relatively young field, it is important to make some
very critical distinctions between it and other closely related, but often mistaken fields:
Counseling: Working from a state of pathology or dysfunction
to healthy relating and functioning. Usually a past orientation to present.
Consulting: Transference of expertise in a given area
from consultant to client.
Mentoring: Helping the mentee attain the level of being
or maturity of the mentor. It is helping the one being mentored to take on the characteristics of the mentor, becoming more
like him in the process.
Discipleship: Helping the disciple to become more like
Christ. The discipler is usually farther along in maturity and models both the implementation of spiritual disciplines and
the resulting fruit of the Spirit to help disciple reach a higher level of Christian maturity.
Friendship: A two-way relationship, without an agenda,
based on a certain set of common values, similar traits, or personal preferences.
Individual Coaching
- Life/Work Planning
- Personal Development
- Time Management
Couples Coaching
- Marriage
- Parenting
- Conflict Resolution
Group Coaching
- Ministry Leadership Development
- Spiritual Growth
- Strategizing to reach a common goal
- Coaching around a shared theme or topic
- Mission Statement Development
- Life Purpose/Calling
- Creating a Mission Statement
- Personal/Spiritual Development
- Making a Complex Decision
- Improving Relationships/Communication Strategies
- Understanding my SHAPE (spiritual gifts, heart, abilities, personality,
& experiences)
- Life Balance/Fulfillment
- Life/Work Planning
- Achieveing a specific goal
- Overcoming Obstacles or Energy Drainers to reach a target goal
The following tools can be used as catalysts for coaching:
- Assessments (choose from: skills/abilities, personality, strengths,
spiritual gifts, needs and values, personal motivators, passions and interests, unique pattern of high performance, life balance/fulfillment)
- Create a SHAPE Personal Profile (listing your complete gift mix)
- Customized Job Description
- Mission Statement Development (contemplative questions and writing template)
- Personal Growth Plans (based on: interest area, character issue, spiritual
gift development, spiritual discipline implementation, doctrine study, skill or ability development, leadership development,
or minsitry, career, or life role preparation)
- Decision Matrix
- Priority Matrix
- Backwards Planner
- Goal Breakdown Worksheet
- Personal Timeline
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