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Module 1: What is Coaching?

Lesson 2
Character
 
 
 
 
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Instructions

This journal/workbook is an integral part of your learning experience. Eye to

hand coordination, coupled with focused attention and active listening,
accelerates and intensifies the learning process. Complete each section, be it
text or graphical, and make notes on what you are observing.

This record will provide an invaluable source of reference for you both now and
in the future.  
 

Character

1. One of the most important and yet astonishingly understated aspects

of becoming a powerful coach is about________: the ______ you
are coming from as you engage the coaching process.

2. Think of the word____________. You have to ____ the coach in

order to _______ the ability to coach others to success.

3. Your ability to___________ another human being will be determined

by ______ ______ ______ more than it be by what you know.

4. Effective coaching is ___ about who you are and ____ about

technique.

5. “Before you can ___something you first must_____ something”

(Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe)

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 6. The most important work a coach can undertake is to continually
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seek to ___________ their _____________, to improve ______

__________.

7. This is where the law of the __________ applies to coaching.

8. Your ability to raise the _______________ of others, and so

consequently your ability and effectiveness in coaching others to
improved _______________ will be determined by your _______.

9. The best __________ have a ___________.

10. Rather than seeing a person as an ________ ________that we

might fill with information, knowledge and ideas, a powerful coach
views a person rather like an _________, an entity that has all the
_________within it to grow into a beautiful oak tree, as long as
the _______ _________ are provided for that _______.

11. A coach looks at a person's____________ rather than their

___________.

12. A great coach sees themselves as a _____________ of human

_____________.

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Why Coaching Is So Important

1. No other human development process influences and

changes _____________ as effectively as coaching.

2. Pouring information into the ___________ mind in the hope that

some of it will stick is a __________ process, because the
___________ mind cannot retain large amounts of information.

3. Coaching influences at both _____________ and

_____________ levels of the personality.

4. Unless we change people at the level of their ___________,

nothing will change in their _________.

5. Most of what we do on a day-to-day basis is generated

____________.

6. It simply isnʼt possible to manage and improve upon something

youʼre not _______ of.

7. Coaching address the ____________gap, the difference

between what a person __________ and what they _____.

8. If we are to collaborate in creating lasting improvements in

performance for our clients, and not just put a short-term sticking

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plaster over the problem at hand, we must address performance
issues at a level beneath that which they occur.

9. The coaching process has 3 underlying objectives:

1: greater ________________

2: increased ______________

3: greater ________________

10. All 3 bring greater_________________ and _______________

to the individual, creating lasting change by adopting a learning
approach that operates from the inside out as opposed to the
outside in.

11. Our ____________ cannot be found somewhere

____________ of us, it can only be discovered __________.

Congratulations! You are at the end of the teaching! Take 10 minutes

straight away to reflect, evaluate and record your learning points from this
lesson.

Notes:

 
 
 

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Notes (continued):  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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