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You can accelerate leadership development with coaching
Great leaders have to start somewhere. If they are serious about their role, they will be committed to ongoing self reflection and personal development. Coaching can accelerate the development of leaders.
Coaching for Dreams and Passions
Vision doesn’t always come to us clearly and fully formed. There are often questions, fears, and doubts that are closely tied to our dreams and passions. Here are some great questions you can use to come alongside others in this very personal journey of identifying dreams and passions.
Coaching for Rest
In our society today we tend to think of a busy schedule as a badge of honor. We rush from one activity or event to the next. We work long hours. We have family obligations. There is an ever-growing list of chores and errands in the back of our minds. We tend to wear busyness as a badge of honor but in reality it does more harm than good. As coaches, we can see when a client is struggling with busyness and can plant a seed for needed rest.
Coaching for Physical Health
You are walking through possibly the most stressful couple of years that our generation will face. Coping mechanisms were created for times like these. But they aren’t meant to become habits. When they do, I find one area that suffers is our physical health—diet and exercise. These tips for coaching for physical health may be helpful to your clients… and maybe even yourself.
Money Problems: 3 Key Strategies for Coaching Stewardship
How can we be more effective at helping people in their stewardship? By taking a coaching approach to conversations—even if it’s not within a formal coaching relationship—we can help people reflect on their values and the principles they base their actions on. If we are having these conversations with people—listening and asking good questions—we can help disciple them in this area.
Coaching for Spiritual Gifts
Everyone in ministry believes in spiritual gifts. Almost everyone thinks they’re important. But only a minute portion have organized a way to help people really begin intentionally working out of their giftedness. We’ve preached on gifts and we’ve offered gifts inventories or quizzes. But it isn’t enough. We need the connection that actually gets people doing it.
Coaching Through Personal Transitions
The process of discerning God’s will is not formulaic, nor is it linear. Going through personal transitions in collaboration with a coach can help a leader move intentionally and fruitfully through a transition period.
How to coach people in a polarized environment
How are we to handle the polarization in our own world? How do we engage in healthy ways? In ways that reflect more of God’s Kingdom to others? Coaching provides us with a powerful tool as good questions promote understanding and lowers the temperature, as opposed to fueling a polarized environment.
Creating A Disciple Making-Coaching Culture
You want to see people accept the Lordship of Christ and be transformed by the love of God. Disciple making is your heart and you work at it faithfully, but you aren’t seeing results. Fusing disciple making and coaching into your ministry.
How to Invest in Your Staff and Get Things Done
When you are supervising staff, you need to ensure that the needed tasks are done—and done well. I believe that can be accomplished at the same time as you also develop those staff people through coaching. Coaching and high-quality ministry do not stand in opposition to each other.
Faith Conversations That Get Results
It’s amazing what can emerge when you approach others with curiosity and a desire to learn about them. Giving careful attention to the most casual conversations can reveal opportunities to help others take the next best step in their faith journey.
Coaching Can Save the Art of Evangelism
With the rapid decline of the church in America, you are either looking for ways to reach people for Christ or you should be. Applying good coaching principles offers an approach to evangelism that is both gentle and effective.
The Supervising-Coaching Rhythm
You can coach those you are also supervising. A supervisor needs to hold the person accountable for results, work toward agreement on goals, and evaluate progress. A coach, on the other hand, needs to draw out and help support the person’s own ideas. You can wear both hats. Here’s how…
You are not alone—and neither are your clients
Your clients sought you out because they knew they needed help. As their coach, they look to you to be in their corner, to believe in them, cheer them on, and offer guidance. If you have been coaching for any length of time, you will know that often isn’t enough.
Excel through Prayerful Preparation
What good did I provide? That question creeps up at the most inopportune moments. Even the most confident amongst us will wonder from time to time when things don’t meet expectations, or when questions don’t connect or we are distracted. Prayerful preparation is a key element to being more mindful, aware, and proactive with your coaching clients.
When your words simply mean more
“I am praying for you.” If you have ever felt the power of prayer at work in your life, hearing those words is gold. Knowing you are being prayed for calms your spirit in trying times and boosts your spirit when you take on new adventures.
How do you KNOW that’s from God?
How well do you hear God’s voice? From calling confirmation to determining next best steps, discernment is a huge part of your role as a coach. It is the difference between setting an agenda based on what you or your client wants to leading in joining God in what he is already doing.
Is there a blind spot in your character?
A way to tell if you are Abiding in Christ is to examine your ongoing commitment to developing godly character and maturity in Christ. Lent is a perfect time to look for blind spots and recommit to being transformed into the image of Christ.
How can you help your clients focus on what is most important?
Even when you are firing on all cylinders, coaching sessions can sometimes fall flat. Competence in one key practice makes all the difference for you and your clients…
The Spirit-Led Leader
When we are discipling people, I’ve found that almost everybody knows at least one area where they need to grow. A Christian coach’s role is to help them listen to the Spirit, to ask them good questions that point them toward God and what he may have for them.
Coaches and Timely Feedback
The role of a coach is to help others achieve their vision and goals in their own way. Therefore, there is one major element that every coach brings to the table that must be, in large part, set aside in coaching relationships: expertize. When coaching, providing feedback should be rare and strategic.
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