Coaching Spotlight: Identifying Goals

"To ensure you’re creating goals that are genuinely right for you, ask yourself, 'What is the purpose behind my goal? Is it a goal I want to pursue or feel like I have to pursue?' If you feel that you have to pursue the goal, then get rid of it. If it’s a goal you want to pursue, continue to remind yourself why it’s important to you. What value in your life is this goal honoring?" - Guagliardo, R. (2018)

INTRODUCTION

This Spotlight is one of a series of Spotlights to support the Institute’s ‘Coaching Conversations’, an accredited Institute of Leadership and Management product that recognises coaching both as an invaluable tool for any leader or manager, and for developing your ability to support your colleagues in the workplace or those you may meet in a voluntary capacity.

This Spotlight provides a transcription of ‘What is Business Coaching Like?’ (1:30 – 5:12): the coach helps the coachee to identify a clear goal early on and to recognise how she will know when the goal has been met. The excerpt concludes with the coach explaining how she has focused the conversation.

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REFERENCES

Guagliardo, R., (2018). 13 Questions To Ask Yourself To Identify The Right Goal https://www.forbes.com/sites/fo rbescoachescouncil/2018/08/22/13-questions-to-ask-yourself-to-identify-the-right-goal/#298b1d6c355e

Marie, A., (2012). What is Business Coaching Like? https://youtu.be/Pe9kucCm6rA

The Institute of Leadership & Management, (2019). Making the Conversation Purposeful

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