Necessity is the Mother of In(ter)ventions
Tips and Tools
E-VALUE-ating LIFT
Virtual Reality
Potpourri
100
This intervention is one of the first we explored because it is so foundational. This at the core of learning about the member and their goals, beyond simple yes and no answers.
Powerful Questions
100
This worksheet helps members create detailed, meaningful targets that are measurable and realistic, with a deadline in mind. You might say it is an intelligent idea for coaches to leverage these.
SMART Goal Worksheet
100
We hold ourselves to the highest standard. We demand innovation, ambition, and quality every day, for every family. That is why this is one of our core values.
Excellence
100
The url of LIFT's website encourages us to explore the reasons we do our work with this three word phrase/question. (hint: it is part of your LIFT email address)
Why We LIFT (whywelift.org)
100
An important outcome for members working with a LIFT coach is the development of these 'everyday skills'. Some examples are time management, metacognition, and goal-directed persistence.
Executive Functioning Skills
200
Members want to be heard! This intervention is being used when a coach summarizes, paraphrases, or confirms the meaning and feeling of what the member has said.
Reflective Listening
200
For LIFT as an organization, it is empowering families to break the cycle of poverty. For LIFT coaches, it a five point document discussed in initial meetings with members.
Coach Mission Statement
200
This LIFT value is at the core of every coaching meeting. Without intentional effort to build these, rooted in trust and support, coaching cannot happen.
Relationships
200
You have already explored this website throughout LIT, and will only get more familiar while you work with LIFT. It is named for the work you will be doing (and the work that will be supported by the information and resources therein).
Coaching Corner
200
Founded in this year, what is now LIFT was originally called National Student Partnerships, or NSP.
1998
300
A member tells you they passed that class, paid off a credit card, and secured an interview for a new job. Each of these is cause for this coaching intervention.
Celebration
300
This structure provides a template for coaching conversations, encouraging members and coaches to set an agenda; to assess the member's situation, needs, and next steps; and to summarize and conclude the discussion. (With a description like this, you see why we used an acronym!)
GROW Meeting Model
300
This image can help distinguish this value from a similar sounding word. (This value is represented on the right in the image).
Equity
300
We know why we collect member data, but it is also important for coaches to know where we store that information. This platform is where this data is kept and managed.
Horizon
300
This person, who joined LIFT in 2012 as the Founding LIFT-Los Angeles Executive Director, was promoted to and currently serves as LIFT's Chief Executive Officer.
Michelle Rhone-Collins
400
This intervention should be leveraged before you share a resource or offer any suggestion to a member. You do not want to submit something for them to consider without first doing this.
Asking Permission
400
Another helpful worksheet, this is can support the member in outlining the steps they need to take to achieve what they set out to do. This takes things from SMART to finished!
Goal Action Plan Worksheet
400
This value allows our important work to be strengthened by a team that brings a variety of perspectives, experiences, and insights.
Diversity
400
This Microsoft platform has become increasingly essential to our work. From communicating with your regional staff and fellow coaches, to conducting member meetings, this allows you to stay connected in many important ways! (hint: there is no "I" in it)
Microsoft Teams
400
Being member-driven, free of judgement, strengths-based, and having a scaffolded approach are LIFT's four of these.
Coaching Principles
500
Sometimes a deeper coaching conversation cannot begin in earnest until some unrelated annoyance or frustration is addressed. This intervention can let the member vent for a moment in order to get past the issue (at least for the duration of the meeting).
Clearing
500
This tool, typically explored during an Intake Meeting, is key to the vision setting process. Members rate different areas that may inform future goals they work on with a LIFT coach. (If members are 'in the driver's seat", perhaps they are steering with this!)
Wheel of Life
500
Empowering families to break the cycle of poverty is no simple feat and the challenges of this work can be discouraging. That is why the determination and optimism for the for the future articulated by this value is so vital!
Hope
500
Texting a member can be a vital form of communication, from sending them reminders and resources, to just checking in. This platform is what coaches use to text members.
Signal Vine
500
This is the primary eligiblity requirement for LIFT members.
Being a parent or care-giver of a child 0-8 years old