Coaching Principles and Approach
This principle requires coaches to avoid making assumptions or passing judgment, creating a safe space for open and honest communication.
Free of Judgement
Which statement is a Powerful Question?
Do you have what you need to complete that action step? or What resources or supports do you need to complete that action step?
What resources or supports do you need to complete that action step?
What does GROW stand for? (as in the GROW Meeting Model)
Goals, Reality Check & Options, Wrap-Up
This foundational principle of Motivational Interviewing involves understanding and validating the member's feelings and perspective to create an atmosphere of acceptance.
Express Empathy
This foundational principle of Trauma-Informed Coaching ensures that relationships and environments do not create new traumas or trigger past ones.
Safety
What are LIFT's Coaching Principles?
Client/Student/Parent Driven, Strengths-Based, Free of Judgement, Scaffolded
What Coaching Intervention does this example use?
Your love and care in every decision shows how much your family means to you, and that's truly something to be proud of.
Acknowledgement
SMART goals must be ____, ____, ____, ____, ___
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-Bound
This Motivational Interviewing skill encourages members to share descriptive information by asking questions that cannot be answered with a simple "yes" or "no."
Open-Ended Questions
This "R" in Trauma-Informed Coaching focuses on fully integrating knowledge about trauma into practices, policies, and procedures.
Respond
Why should coaches separate themselves from a client's success?
Because it's about the client and not the coach
Which of LIFT's Coaching Interventions ensures a client feels heard?
Reflective Listening
In the GROW Meeting model, this is where the client's situation and starting point is objectively assessed.
Reality Check
This technique in Motivational Interviewing highlights a member’s strengths and past successes, fostering their confidence and belief in their ability to achieve goals.
Affirmations
This guiding principle emphasizes the use of lived experiences to promote healing and recovery among individuals.
Peer Support and Mutual Self-Help
This coaching principle involves focusing on the client’s positive attributes and abilities to build confidence and capability for achieving their goals.
Strengths-Based
This coaching practice involves ensuring the client is open to receiving input or suggestions before the coach offers a skill, intervention, idea, or hunch.
Asking Permission
Why is it important to develop an action plan with clients after setting SMART goals?
To ensure they know which tools they need to achieve their goals.
To confirm that their goals are realistic and relevant.
To motivate them by providing detailed instructions.
To translate long-term objectives into specific, actionable steps.
Answer #4: To translate long-term objectives into specific, actionable steps.
This skill allows coaches to reflect on what the member has said, showing understanding and encouraging further exploration of their experience.
Reflective Listening
This principle highlights the importance of engaging individuals in shared decision-making, offering choices, and empowering them to set and pursue their own goals.
Empowerment, Voice, and Choice
Which of the following demonstrates a "strengths-based" approach in coaching?
Suggesting a step-by-step solution to the client’s problem
Highlighting the client’s existing skills and how they can apply them to their goals
Focusing only on areas where the client needs improvement
Avoiding discussion of the client’s challenges to keep the conversation positive
Answer #2: Highlighting the client’s existing skills and how they can apply them to their goals
During a coaching session, a member begins sharing a long and detailed story, hopping from one point to another. To refocus the session and make the best use of time, the coach decides to use bottom-lining. What should the coach say?
A) "I’d like to hear the full story later. For now, can we focus on your emotions?"
B) "This is a lot to unpack. Can you give me the short version—what’s the key point?"
C) "Let’s move on to another topic for now and come back to this later."
D) "Can you write this out after our session so we can spend more time discussing it?"
B) "This is a lot to unpack. Can you give me the short version—what’s the key point?"
What is the most important quality of a "Specific" goal in the SMART framework?
A) It includes measurable numbers.
B) It can be easily adjusted based on the client’s priorities.
C) It avoids general statements by addressing who, what, and where.
D) It must align with other areas of the Wheel of Life.
C) It avoids general statements by addressing who, what, and where.
Motivational Interviewing is designed to strengthen a person’s motivation for change. What is one key element that defines its approach?
A) Providing step-by-step solutions for the person’s challenges.
B) Eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change.
C) Convincing the person why change is necessary.
D) Highlighting the consequences of not making a change.
B) Eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change
A coach wants to ensure their approach is trauma-informed by recognizing cultural and historical factors. Which of the following best demonstrates this principle?
A) Using consistent communication to build trust.
B) Moving past stereotypes, offering culturally responsive services, and addressing historical trauma.
C) Encouraging individuals to share their lived experiences to promote mutual healing.
D) Integrating trauma knowledge into everyday policies and practices.
B) Moving past stereotypes, offering culturally responsive services, and addressing historical trauma