The Authentic Leader Blog
One of the critical components of coaching is to help clients define clear goals and set them on a path to achieve them. An exercise I use to facilitate this process is something I call “3 Sentences to Growth.” The exercise asks clients to write 3 sentences to frame their mission or goal in the past, present, as well as desired future state.
As a consultant and executive coach, I spend a great deal of time thinking about and asking questions as a way to increase awareness to possible solutions and to drive growth for individuals, teams, and organizations. This blog explores 5 types of questions for leaders to use in accelerating growth of their organizations.
Every day of our lives presents each of us with a new opportunity to be bold and try new things, yet often we find ourselves defaulting to our to-do list or hanging by our Outlook calendars. Or worse yet, we jump immediately into the email “black hole” and spend hours crafting and sending responses to messages—ultimately responding to other people’s priorities.
To help break free from the day-to-day grind, I start each day by asking myself a provocative question.
As we head into the end of the year, one of the things I inevitably find myself doing (and also with my clients and those I coach and mentor) is re-assessing the goals set earlier in the year.
This is not always an easy process as it forces deep introspection as well as accepting that January’s unbridled optimism has given way to October’s reality. Doing so enables an honest assessment about what will and will not be accomplished during the rest of the year. More importantly, it allows greater focus on new goals or refinement of existing ones that better align with 2016 and beyond.
