What will you do to achieve your goals?
“This coaching series has helped me clarify
God’s calling,” says Tomoko, a leadership
developer based in Cambodia. “I like my personal
mission statement: Empowering Christians to pursue
God’s calling.
“And the 6 goals I’ve identified help me know what I need to do to carry out my mission. I especially like my goal for coaching: Providing support, encouragement, and accountability for Christian leaders. Right now, I’m coaching 5 leaders.
“Last session, I brainstormed things I could do to accomplish each of my goals. I like my list, but it’s general—for example, for my goal on coaching, I listed “write blogs,” but I didn’t list how many. And I can’t do everything I listed. So, I want to get more specific and make the list doable.”
Question: What can you ask Tomoko?
Answer: What will you do to achieve your goals?
In other words, get Tomoko to identify 2-4 sub-goals she will accomplish in the next 12 months. For example, imagine Tomoko saying, “Let’s start with my goal on coaching.”
You could say, “OK. Imagine that it’s 12 months from now. You feel good about coaching leaders. What have you accomplished in the past 12 months?”
Then Tomoko would brainstorm, you would continue to ask questions, and Tomoko might decide that she will coach 20 leaders, write a monthly coaching blog, and do three 1-day coaching workshops so Christian leaders can learn how to coach others. Then, Tomoko would move on to her next goal—consulting.
Empower your client to pursue God’s calling. Today.
“And the 6 goals I’ve identified help me know what I need to do to carry out my mission. I especially like my goal for coaching: Providing support, encouragement, and accountability for Christian leaders. Right now, I’m coaching 5 leaders.
“Last session, I brainstormed things I could do to accomplish each of my goals. I like my list, but it’s general—for example, for my goal on coaching, I listed “write blogs,” but I didn’t list how many. And I can’t do everything I listed. So, I want to get more specific and make the list doable.”
Question: What can you ask Tomoko?
Answer: What will you do to achieve your goals?
In other words, get Tomoko to identify 2-4 sub-goals she will accomplish in the next 12 months. For example, imagine Tomoko saying, “Let’s start with my goal on coaching.”
You could say, “OK. Imagine that it’s 12 months from now. You feel good about coaching leaders. What have you accomplished in the past 12 months?”
Then Tomoko would brainstorm, you would continue to ask questions, and Tomoko might decide that she will coach 20 leaders, write a monthly coaching blog, and do three 1-day coaching workshops so Christian leaders can learn how to coach others. Then, Tomoko would move on to her next goal—consulting.
Empower your client to pursue God’s calling. Today.