24 Feb Pulling It Together

At this point in the course, you may feel as though you’ve crossed the finish line of your coaching sessions. But, there is one last, important lunge you need to cross that line. And it’s a very important step in completing the implementation of the life coaching portion of your capstone project. This final step is to do a reflective assessment of your life coaching experience. This piece, though the last, is just as important as the actual coaching because it allows you to reflect upon and learn from the work you’ve done. And it is especially important that you do this reflection while the experience is fresh.

This assessment is designed to serve three purposes: 1) help you to extract the most salient features of the coaching experience, 2) reflect on your own coaching effectiveness, and 3) begin reflecting on your professional journey toward life coaching.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

· Assess the outcomes of the life coaching sessions.

Background Information

To get the most from this assignment, spend adequate time looking over your coaching notes and go back and listen to your recorded coaching sessions. Assess how your coaching client responded to the action plan that you helped them create in your second coaching session.

Instructions

1. Read Chapter 16 in your textbook, Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach Training.

2. In a four to five-page paper, respond to the following:

a. Assessing the life coaching principles

i. Which life coaching concepts, principles, exercises, or assessments were most helpful in your coaching sessions? Explain.

ii. What would you have liked to have learned more about that might have helped you in your coaching sessions?

b. Assessing your life coaching experience

i. Identify three personal areas of strength that you became aware of as you conducted the coaching sessions. Be specific.

ii. Identify three areas you became aware of where you’d like to improve. Again, be specific.

iii. What did you find most challenging about the coaching process?

iv. If you could change one or two things about how the coaching sessions were conducted, what would these be?

c. Assessing the effectiveness of your coaching on the coaching subject

i. How helpful do you think the coaching sessions were for facilitating real change in your coaching subject? Explain.

ii. What one principle from positive psychology would you emphasize with this coaching client (based on their stated need) if you were going to continue to work with them?