FC105 Getting Started

Facilitator: Bill Turpin
2009/2/12, 2000-2100

What areas you need to concentrate from effective as a person to become an effective coach? We need to make goals for ourselves. Where do you want to be in 6 or 12 months from now?

Goal setting study
(1) 23% of population have no idea what they want in life, so they wander in their life aimless
(2) 67% of population have general idea but no plans of how to get it
(3) 10% have well defined specific goals
(4) Top 3% (from the 10%) achieve their goals (The only variable is that top 3% people write down their goals.)

What's the value for you to write down your goals?
- to reinforce what you are doing
- remind us, help us clarify and to be focused
- to help us visualize the goals
- better commitment to achieve the goal
- specify what we want and how we want to achieve
- share it with someone else

What someone else does not do it?
- lazy
- scare of failure
- do not realize how valuable to write it down
- they think they have clear picture in their head (but "out of sight, out of mind")

SMART goal
S- Specific: I wan to loose 35 ponds
M- Measurable: I wan to loose 35 ponds (how to measure it? maybe 5 ponds a week)
A- Achievable: is it achievable? (loose 35 ponds in one week is not realistic)
R- Result: What is the result when you achieve the goal? How do you know you have achieved the goal? How would you know you got there?
T- Time based: When would you accomplish the goal? What is the date?

Challenge
Write down your goals (personal, career and coaching), it significantly increases the possibility for you to succeed.
Tina's SMART Goal - Complete the ICA program and graduate in Dec. 2009.

Peer Coach Program
It helps you to get started (experience the coaching process via being coached for 12 sessions). Before you coach others, it is suggested to be coached by a peer coach first. We could begin coaching external clients right now, but we could only coach peer coaches after we are coached by a peer coach. Find some focus for being coached.

Coaching = 70% by phone (practice listening skills) + 30 % by face to face. Body language could also be distracting sometimes. A good coach must be a good listener.