2. What else did you take away from the coaching process (shift in perspective, adoption of new goals, new awareness, etc.)?
The phenomenal resourcefulness, out-of the-box thinking exhibited with/without the resource (place, materials) coupled with time and stress management is a new quarter that Dr. Shubha’s Coaching has unraveled for me about myself.
The ability to promote People Development in a more constructive and focused manner
The skill to exercise feedback or truth in a candid manner
3. How will the experience of this coaching relationship continue to support you as you move forward?
While we discussed a lot for content creation for my book, case studies, interactive games and role play featured in the interactive process of Coaching. The Coach has elaborately brought to light the outcome and specified the areas of improvement for coaching sessions in future.
The COACH has given a bird’s eye-view of my strengths and weaknesses at every step that has enriched MY FOCUS ON PRIORITIES and enabled close-to perfect delivery.
The confidence and TRUST that my clients repose is a testimonial to the soundness of the COACHING. No client or situation is a formidable challenge anymore.
Commitment in unison with Assertiveness and Patience for the overall success is the hallmark of an EFFICIENT COACH.
This learning of mine will undoubtedly assist, enliven and bring the best out of many in my journey as a coach.
This client undoubtedly showed the characteristics of being linguistic, intra personal and spatial in her orientation. Therefore the coach had to spend a lot of time listening to the stories or issues of self doubt and self worth that were troubling her and then sort out these thoughts using a lot of questioning skills as well so that she was able to find her path and transition in her career from being a teacher to a trainer.
Caselet 5 – Non ICA client
This lady client was having work and personal and professional issues and one was impacting the other. Living in a joint family system with extended family she was undergoing a lot of stress in the various relationships.
Questions for the client:
1. What goals did you set out to achieve when you started coaching and were they achieved?
To understand concept of Coaching and how to adopt in my activities
To improve Goal Setting Process
To be resourceful in Time Management.
All the above Goals have been achieved.
2. What else did you take away from the coaching process (shift in perspective, adoption of new goals, new awareness, etc.)?
Being more Empathetic
Perspective to think Out of the Box.
3. How will the experience of this coaching relationship continue to support you as you move forward?
Coach has assisted me to be more Client focused, thereby building a strong relationship in present and future transactions.
This experience has helped in understanding importance of coaching and how it has brought a positive change in me personally and my work.
Want to extend this experience to my peers and team.
This client was logical, spatial, intrapersonal and musical in her orientation. This made it easier for the coach to be able to assign puzzles and give case studies to work out and administer self awareness tools to get an understanding of concepts like conflict resolution and assertiveness.
Caselet 6 – Non ICA client
Another lady client who was undergoing a personal crisis in the form of a divorce after many years of marriage. The shock of finding out that her husband’s family had never really accepted her and that they had only tolerated her for almost eleven years was a devastating fact for her to accept. This was showing in her work as well.
Questions for the client:
1. What goals did you set out to achieve when you started coaching and were they achieved?
I needed help in tiding over a personal situation and setting up myself for higher career growth. Yes It was achieved.
2. What else did you take away from the coaching process (shift in perspective, adoption of new goals, new awareness, etc.)?
Getting an understanding of my strengths, opportunities.
Alignment of my goals to current scenario
Looking ahead with definite plans
3. How will the experience of this coaching relationship continue to support you as you move forward?
Will be able to move ahead with much confidence in building new relationship.
Ability to infer and influence and in scaling new heights.
This client was totally logical and intra personal. The current situation had also rendered her very anti interpersonal – she was not open to meeting people. She had withdrawn into herself, was suffering from low self esteem. It was imperative to coach her into restoring some of her self esteem with games and puzzles and a lot of quiz activity. Subsequently we worked a lot on her inner hurt and calming her spirit with spiritual coaching. Further we looked at coaching for performance so that her job did not suffer as well.
Conclusion:
From the above six samples I have learned that people/ clients will have multiple intelligences and may not understand the coach through one area. It is then incumbent upon the coach to see if the message can be given in various other formats, types, methods so that the client is able to take away enough action steps from the coaching session.
So to conclude the following format throws more light on the theory of multiple intelligence.
So for example:
The pressure of possible failure and being forced to act and think unnaturally, have a significant negative influence on learning effectiveness. Happy relaxed people learn more readily than unhappy stressful people.
A person’s strength is also a learning channel. A person’s weakness is not a great learning channel. So if we can appeal to the strength areas then wonders can happen in the client’s understanding.
Develop people through their strengths so that their development is stimulated and they also become happy because everyone enjoys working in their strength areas. There is a sure growth in their confidence levels when they see that they are doing well, and they get told they are doing well too.
Developing a person’s strengths will increase their response to the learning experience, which helps them to develop their weaknesses as well as their strengths.
Having illustrated that sensible use of a person’s natural strengths and types of intelligence is a good thing it’s important to point out that intelligence in itself is not a measure of good or bad, nor of happy or sad.
So in conclusion it feels very important to understand the theory of multiple intelligence. In fact if a coach is aware of this then it is fairly easy to have a coaching session. The coach can find out from conversing with the client his or her multiple intelligences and work with the client in those areas. The session would be effective and both the coach and the client would have a win win situation.
References
Books:
Coaching with Spirit by Teri – E Bell
Managers as Mentors by Chip R Bell
Coaching for Performance by John Whitmore
Co – Active Coaching by Whitworth, Kimsey - House and Sandahl
Articles from the net:
conscious competence learning model matrix, www.businessballs.com ›
Left Brain vs Right Brain – Psychology, www.about.com
Learning styles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles
Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learning Styles (VAK), www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/styles/vakt.html
Concept to Classroom: Tapping into multiple intelligences ...
www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/mi/index.html
Birmingham Grid for Learning - Multiple Intelligences (Secondary)
www.bgfl.org/custom/resources_ftp/client.../multiple.../index.htm
Education World: Multiple Intelligences: A Theory for Everyone
www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr054.shtml
Howard Gardner1 defined the first seven intelligences in FRAMES OF MIND (1983). He added the last two in INTELLIGENCE REFRAMED (1999). Gardner is a psychologist and Professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, as well as Co-Director of Harvard Project Zero.