The Life Strategies Workbook: Exercises and Self-Tests to Help You Change Your Life

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An effective mission statement clearly articulates not only your future vision, but also a future contribution to others.

This makes dealing with stress very personal – it may be harder for some of us than for others. Some experiences that can make it more difficult include: In contrast, life coaching is not therapy or counseling, which pairs a mental health professional with a client seeking guidance around mental wellness. Life coaching also differs from mentorship and training, whereby a professional is paired with a more experienced professional, often in a workplace or industry setting. Look after your physical health. Getting enough sleep, staying physically active and eating a balanced diet can make stress easier to manage. Stress can sometimes make these things difficult to look after. But even small changes can make a big difference. While these areas are often most applicable in leadership coaching, they are broadly relevant across more general life domains, too. For instance, one need not be in a formal position of leadership to benefit from developing leadership skills as leadership is something we all practice, such as when managing a household or organizing activities or events. Leadership assessment tools Balancing risk with common sense; being cautious and pragmatic can also pay off, depending upon the situationHere, we present two commonly used personality assessments in coaching: Seligman’s strengths inventory and the Valued Living Questionnaire. 1. VIA Inventory of Strengths (Seligman) The following assessments are some of the most popular ways to measure EI, but you can also find more EI assessments in our dedicated post. 1. Emotional and Social Competency Inventory To be the best life coach, you need the best tool to make a difference in your client’s life, daily. Interest Crafting. It entails engaging in hobbies and activities that spark joy, tap into your passions, and contribute to your personal growth. For example, if you love animals, you could volunteer at a local shelter. Or if you want to expand your skills, join a recreational sports team. Pursuing your interests builds meaning. Those high in emotional intelligence are thought to be effective at managing their own emotions and are good at identifying and considering others’ emotions. Conversely, those low in emotional intelligence rarely stop to think about what they are feeling and are more likely to misread others’ motives and intentions.

Vary your activities. Try to balance boring tasks with more interesting ones. And mix up stressful tasks with those you find easier, or that you can do more calmly. Kolb, D. A., Boyatzis, R. E., & Mainemelis, C. (2001). Experiential learning theory: Previous research and new directions. Perspectives on thinking, learning, and cognitive styles, 1(8), 227-247. Leadership is a common area that coaches are called in to assess and improve. Whether it’s leadership in the boardroom, a work team, or one’s own personal life, most clients will benefit from developing their leadership in some capacity.c Friends and family. Sometimes telling the people close to you how you're feeling can make a big difference. They might be able to help with some of the things causing you stress. Whether or not you’ve already articulated your mission, you’re operating from some kind of mission. The question is: it is your mission, or it is the mission society tells you to have?

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Emotional intelligence refers to our “ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion in the self and others’’ (Mayer, Salovey, & Caruso, 2000, p. 396).

7 Coaching Assessment Tools

The focus is on the client’s entire self, not just specific aspects of the client’s personality or certain spheres of the client’s life. For example, if you set a goal to journal for 30 minutes every week, you could measure how often you followed-through on this goal. Journaling for two out of four weeks would give you a completion rate of 50% (two divided by four). Try not to do too much at once. If you take on too much, you might find it harder to do any individual task well. This could make you feel even more stressed. Do More of: Behaviors the client wants to do more frequently because by doing so, they will improve their odds of achieving their goal or achieving it faster.