Week 4- Early and typically in the 1-3 sessions

Question 1

Coaching from point A to point B

Answer 1

1. You are here
2. Wellness plan/vision
3. Identify the gaps
4. Focus areas
5. Goals and action steps
6. Manage progress and accountability.

Question 2

8 Parts of Impactful Ongoing Sessions (buddy coaching scripts great outline of this includes details)

Answer 2

1. Connect with clients and inquire about their current state.
2. Check in on clients’ progress.
3. Invite the client to choose the focus.
4. Explore the topic.
5. Goals, action steps & adjustments
6. Discover and reflect clients learning (aha moments
7. Give appreciation.
8. Ask for feedback.

Question 3

Assessments for Well-being

Answer 3

• Energy: Clients energy throughout the day
• Life Satisfaction: Purpose, joy, gratitude, work satisfaction, relationship satisfaction
• Mental and Emotional Fitness: coping skills, resilience, sleep, stress, social support
• Weight Management: BMI, height, weight, waist measurements
• Physical activity- frequency, type
• Nutrition: health snacks, grains, fruit veggies, soda, alcohol, fats
• Health: BP, HR, cholesterol, meds, tobacco use, personal family health

Question 4

Client Tools for exploration

Answer 4

• Journaling
• Alone time
• Offer different books or videos.
• Life review, timeline.
• Quieting practice- meditation, yoga

Question 5

Creating a coach vision

Answer 5

Coaching is a growth-promoting relationship, which elicits motivation, increases the capacity to change, and facilitates a change process through visioning, setting goals, and accountability.

Question 6

What does motivation do?

Answer 6

• Start a new habit or learn a new skill.
• Take steps towards a new goal.
• Focus on making a habit or learning skills towards a goal.
• Sustain habit or skill.
• Appreciate or savor goal achievement.

Question 7

Types of motivation- 2

Answer 7

• Controlled- the external source of motivation. Push, strongly encourage demand. Long-term change does not reliably result from fear, force, facts.
• Autonomous- one’s own desire for change. Persistent longer, more flexible, improved performance, more joy, better physical health, better relationships.

Question 8

How do we elicit motivation-3?

Answer 8

• Motivational interviewing (MI) encourages clients to find their own reasons to change.
• Uses pro talk change and avoids resistance talking.
• Aims to increase autonomous motivation.

Question 9

Motivational Interviewing- 4 stages

Answer 9

• Engaging- developing growth-promoting and relationship-building strategies that support the client’s autonomy.
• Focusing- Help clients gain more clarity around values and goals.
• Evoking- Generating a connection to the client’s internal motivations and drives.
• Planning- designing action plans that support the building of self or self-efficacy.

Question 10

MI Principle 1: Engaging

Answer 10

• Pro change talk, provided in calm, safe, judgment-free space
• Roll with resistance- Use empathy, inquiry, reflection to increase change or change talk.
• Open-ended inquiry- provide clients to take an active role as they explore positive and negative aspects of behavior.
• Perception reflections- Reflective listening statements to act as a mirror. Allows clients to see themselves in new ways and improves motivation and capacity for change.

Question 11

MI Principle 2: Focusing

Answer 11

• Explore the discrepancies between clients value and goals and their current behavior
• Explore decisional balance- Pro and con of a particular change or stay the same
• Use of perceptive Reflections for developing discrepancy. Simple, amplified, double-sided, shift focus

Question 12

MI Principle 3: Evoke

Answer 12

Uncovers clients reasons for change

• Explore their “why”, sense of purpose and meaning, life purpose, and life control
• MI readiness and confidence rulers useful to explore motivation to change

Question 13

MI Principle 4: Planning

Answer 13

Collaborate on action plan supported by increasing self-efficacy

• Belief one has the capacity to initiate and sustain desired behavior
• Create specific, measurable action steps
• Examine level of confidence
• Create contingency plans
• Affirm commitment

Question 14

Self-efficacy is impacted by what 3 factors?

Answer 14

Personal, environmental, and behavioral

Question 15

What is Self-efficacy?

Answer 15

• Self-Efficacy is the belief one has the capability to initiate and sustain the desired behavior.
• One of the most important outcomes of coaching with the combo of improvement self-image and