Before, During, and After
This website contains resources like meeting checklists, goal-specific cheat sheets, and worksheets like the Goal Action Plan to help you prepare for coaching.
Coaching Corner
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
Using Motivational Interviewing strategies during a coaching meeting demonstrates this social work competency.
Intervention
A question that cannot be answered with a “yes” or a “no”.
Open ended question
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
You always send emails through this platform first, then reply from Outlook. It has useful email templates for sending things like the Wellbeing Survey.
Horizon
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
Conducting a 3-Month Pull Up demonstrates this social work competency.
Assessment
The process of seeking to understand a speaker and then offering the idea back to the speaker to confirm the idea has been understood correctly.
Reflective Listening
LIFT-DC is located at this address. (Hint: The address contains 3 of the same number, a cardinal direction, and the name of a famous building.)
999 North Capitol Street NE, Suite 300
You'll create this before each coaching meeting based on what resources you plan to share and what the member previously indicated they want to explore. It gives structure to the meeting, but ultimately your member is the one who agrees to, builds upon, or makes changes to it.
Agenda
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
Providing high-quality coaching and supporting members in their career, educational, finance, and well-being goal demonstrates this social work competency.
Intervention
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
Empathy
This person is LIFT-DC's Program Coordinator of Parent Engagement, she recruits our members, plans member workshops and events, and can help you find resources to support your members.
Monique Johnson
To promote accountability and help your members stay on track with their goals, you should do this at the end of every coaching meeting. You will use Horizon and Outlook in this process.
Schedule the next meeting
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
Critical analyzing a member’s case record to gather resources to share during the next meeting demonstrates this social work competency.
Evaluation
A technique that allows a person to practice new behaviors.
Being member-driven, free of judgement, strengths-based, and having a scaffolded approach are LIFT's four of these.
Coaching Principles
A basic truth in social work is: “If it is not documented, it did not happen.” To document a meeting, you update these two things in Horizon after (or during) every coaching session.
Meeting Note and Goal Plan
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
Using empathy, reflection, and other interpersonal skills when interacting with members demonstrates this social work competency.
Engagement
The acronym SMART
Specific, Measurable. Achievable, Relevant (or Realistic), Timely
This is the primary eligibility requirement for LIFT members.
Being a parent or care-giver of a child 0-8 years old