2009/3/31

AC112 Powerful Requests

Facilitator: Sherry Read
2009/3/16 & 23


Challenge: stretches the clients from comfort zone, while
Request: actually moves client to some direction.


What is powerful request?
- Challenging people to move beyond their UAC
- Help prepare the person to move somewhere that they need a little pressure to the direction, the direction they want
- It should be always something that they are doing for themselves

Bold request must be the resource from client, not from a coach. It must be something clients mentioned or said. (Where is that bold request coming from? Could it turn on the light to the clients?) If we do not make the request from clients, it turns on establish the clients’ feeling of failure because they could not make it. They just try but not commit to it. It is powerful when the requests come from clients.

Clients do what they need to do to move forward. It could be challenging for them to move out the comfort zone, but this action could come along with growth or learning. Sometimes the request does not get done by the clients. It is not necessary if the clients really do it, because the powerful request could provide some new reflections and new directions of the coaching session or discussion.

How do you structure your bold request at beginning, middle and the end?
Begin – prepare the clients, ask for the permission
Middle – further discussion, why possible or not possible?
End – put on the schedule for client’s action plan


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When we talk about powerful request
- we ask permission
- we prepare our clients
- clients could say “no”


How to prepare to make a powerful request? What would you imagine the things that you need to take into consideration to make a bold request? Is it O.K. to push forward?
- Whether is it realistic, achievable
- Something they would like to step forward (they feel comfortable)
- Break down the big (long-term) goal into small (short-term) goals
- Communicate around clients’ language, value and the ultimate goals
- Acknowledge of what you have done and ask for why not complete the rest?


What if the powerful request has been made, clients said O.K. but in the next week, they did not do anything about it?
- Whether I asked too much and adjust the request

Bold request needed to be aligned with the personal goals
- Revisit the goals to see if it’s really something they want
- How would you feel about accomplishing that goal and how about not achieving that goal?

What if they said it’s really want they want, give me one more week?
- I notice that you are carrying the goal but not making any progress.

What if clients’ have many excuses?
- Turning it back to them about their goal but not the bold request
- Goal mapping: the goal might come from outside pressure but not their real goals.

If a client says “I really do not want to achieve it. It is not my goal”, this is the achievement of self-awareness. Then we could open further discussion: what do you really want?


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Visualization of Love (10-15 minutes)
- Relax your entire body
- Think of a moment you feel completely loved
- Hold down that love to every part of your body
- Extending the love to people around you, everybody
- Make them feel the same way. Feeling the love like you
- Imagine the they give the love back to you
- They interact with love
- It’s a love circle
- Think of the different result (change) that everyone and you would have done in the future

AC109 Creating Confidence

Facilitator: Sherry Read & Merci Miglino
2009/3/11, 18, 25: 1800-1900


Key Learning Points
Who you are? What you bring to the world of coaching even before you complete the certification? How do you show up as a coach? What do you want to do? What would you love to do? What led you here to coaching? How do we articulate that? What kind of structure that you want to put in coaching practice? Where do you want to coach? Figure out that what is your comfort level and pursuing that context of bio.

Meet the people who just get me in the minutes. These are people for you to coach. What is really “me - the authenticity of me”? Determine who I looking for and who might looking for me? Who do I think I would like to connect with?

You are the “delivery” of your service. When we hold back who we are, we are preventing connection. People want to know my story because it resume people’s past. People don’t want to know where you are right now; they wanna know just how much broken glasses you made through. People want to know the make over. They love to see what’s possible.

Coach - we are the agent of change.

I am here to serve. How could I serve you? I have a gift. I want my gift to meet the world. I am the product. Clients want to see my picture to make them want to talk to me. I am what I am trying to serve to people. I want an inviting photo to invite people to want to contact me. People are very visual people. We connect visually. 70% of the population in the world is visual.

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Confidence could free us for the pressure of success and with broad way of success. Coaching is to stretch ourselves from our comfort zone to our possibility. It’s about learning and growth, which brought a broader measure of success. It’s not necessarily always steps forward. Sometimes, we may move two steps forward and one step back. Compassion could maintain our confidence.

About begin to write the bio
Q1: What is the most important thing I want people to know about me?
Q2: What is the second most important thing I want people to know about me?
Q3: What is the third most important thing I want people to know about me?
Q4: How do you write the bio reflecting the three most important thing of yourself?
Q5: What are the facts reflecting the three things that you just wrote down?


AC107 Coaching Model

Facilitator: Nick Bosk
2009/3/11, 18 & 25: 2100-2200


Figure out your niches and find the common theme you do your coaching session. Then you find your niche market and the coaching model. Prepare a list of milestone before the coaching session and review what you did in the coaching session. Your clients do not care about your coaching model. They only care about moving from point A to point B.

Coaching model is guidance when flexibility is needed for different clients. We might change our coaching model often when we do the coaching process. What do you do in the coaching session would come up your coaching model. Observe our three milestones (structure) in the coaching session: the beginning, in the middle, and the wrap up. Then we could come up our coaching model. You could show your clients the coaching model in the trail session to let them have a picture.


Our coaching models are given to us. It is what is true to who we are. Understanding who you are in a person (gone through self-discovery). Creating something that reflects who you are.
What do you do as a coach? Make sure the websites describe who you are.

Q: Are there a set or process that we need to include in the coaching model? Should I have a model to start?
- develop the model with peer coaching practice
- there are many coaching models and we could take them as references and modify them for our own
- a lot of coaching model come from the way you coach and how you work / your personality
- allow the flow of the coaching session and figure out