Coaching Model Assessment

Name: Rajanikanth Chandrasekar rd Date: 3 Novemeber 2012 Student ID: Bangalore F2F Batch 1 Email: crk1975@gmail.com

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Coaching Model - DIVE

To discover oneself better one needs to DIVE into oneself. Diving needs a leap of faith and trust and is best done when there is a Coach. Coaching as a practice helps the Client to DIVE into himself to discover himself better. The Coaching model DIVE tries to capture the key elements of the Coaching Process.

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Define (the Context) Inquire eValuate Enact

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D for Defining the context

Understanding the context of the coaching discussion is very critical for the success of the process. Defining the context not only refers to the Client defining the problem, but also to the efforts of the coach to create a trust environment to work-on. This trust environment and confidentiality goes a long a way in creating an atmosphere so that Client feels confident to state the area of discussion directly. The process of defining also enables the coach to set the expectations and a broad understanding of the current state and a desired state. The Key aspects of this stage includes Create Trust environment and explicit confidentiality terms Define the broad coaching process What to be expected and what not to be expected Encourage Client to freely discuss and establish a current reality Establish outlines of a desired outcome of the coaching session

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for Inquiring

The dictionary meaning of Inquire reads as To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries which perfectly fits into the process of coaching. The Coach puts forth powerful questions to enable to client to do a selfenquiry. The process would enable the Client to DIVE deeper to get deeper insights Many times, the defined issue could just be the symptoms of some deeper issues. Or the Client may not have a defined issue but a vague sense of the issue. The powerful questions from the coach should help the Client to get this clarity. Particular focus of this inquiry process could be on underlying beliefs especially the limiting beliefs The questioning could help the Client to get a clarity of his actual reality The Inquiry would help the client to delineate the actual observed reality and his interpretation of the reality. This interpretation usually involves a story telling where we attach motive for the observed action and add a judgment thereby creating an emotion leading to an action. Once the Client gets this separation, he/she would be free to analyze whether the particular interpretation is beneficial
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One of the important objectives of the inquire process is to unearth more choices than what we started with. For e.g. at the beginning the Client may start looking at it as either/or situation where neither action gives satisfaction. The Inquire process could throw up more choices where instead of either/or choices, and options could be unearthed. Once more than one choice is available a thorough evaluation of the available choices can be made. The desired outcome that is defined at the define stage should act as a lighthouse to do a proper evaluation. One of the most important questions to be used to do this evaluation could be What do we really want Many times it happens that during crucial conversations, though we were clear with the objectives of the discussion at the start, during the discussion, emotions take over and the need for winning or seeking revenge or psychological safety may obscure the objectives that we started off with. The above mentioned question is to try and get the focus back into the actual desired outcome.

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It really does not matter what we know. What matters is what we do with what we know Anonymous All the analysis and mental thought experiments will bear no fruit unless acted upon. Most people are capable of doing a lot of self analysis but the ability to translate them into meaningful action may prove to be the nemesis. One of the main objectives of a coaching process is to help the Client to translate the outcome of the previous processes of inquiry and evaluate into meaningful, and if possible, measurable set of actions. The action plan, a key outcome of the coaching session, however is still a plan. It may be a good idea to probe the possible hurdles that could come up during the enacting the action plan and a strategy to handle them. This gives an additional impetus to the action plan. The Key questions for this stage would include 1. 2. 3. 4. What is the Action Plan? How to break them down into easily manageable small steps? What are the potential hurdles in each of them? How we plan to overcome them?

Though the onus for action is on the Client, the Coach will do well to ask the potential support that he could be in monitoring the progress.
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