Focus (2009.09): What's God doing?
10/09/09 07:30 Filed in: Focus
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How often are you clear on the other person’s goal?
You’re coaching Toru. You have 30 minutes to help Toru achieve his goal. To use this time effectively, make sure you are clear on Toru’s goal. Otherwise, you’ll waste Toru’s time by asking irrelevant questions.
Question: How often are you clear on the other person’s goal?
Me: What would you like to accomplish in our session?
Client: I want to find ways to get better at my job.
Me: What do you mean by “get better” at your job?
Client: Well, I’m having trouble with my boss. I’m not getting my projects done on time. I want to find ways to get my projects done before the deadline.
Me: So your goal for our session is to identify ways to get your projects done before the deadline.
Client: Yes, that’s what I want to accomplish.
Question: What action steps will you take to ensure that you consistently are clear on the other person’s goal?
*To learn more about coaching others on goals, click here.
How often do you talk about your mission?
Want to focus on your mission? If so, talk about it. Why? Because talking helps you focus. The more you talk about your mission, the more you’ll focus on it.
Want to find out how focused you are on your mission? If so, find out how often you talk about it. If you regularly talk about your mission each day, you’re focused on it. If you don’t talk about your mission each day, you’re not fully focused on it.
Consider 5 questions:
What’s God doing?
Good news—God has a plan. He’s already at work. And He’s prepared ways for you to join Him in His work (Eph. 2.10). So, you have the opportunity to be part of God’s plan and work. You don’t have to go figure it all out by yourself or do it all by yourself.
Point: Join God in what He’s already doing.
3 questions:
How can you increase the impact of professional development?
You want your organization to achieve its mission. Your staff are your key resource, and you invest in them by providing professional development. And you want to ensure that professional development makes a positive impact on the achievement of your mission.
Question: How can you increase the impact of professional development?
Answer: Follow up. If you want to help your staff apply their learning in order to achieve the mission, follow up. Spend 50% of your resources on follow-up, in helping your staff apply what they learned.
Follow up by having professional development participants do 3 things:
1-2-14 Shinkawa Cho, Higashi Kurume Shi, Tokyo 203-0013
How often are you clear on the other person’s goal?
You’re coaching Toru. You have 30 minutes to help Toru achieve his goal. To use this time effectively, make sure you are clear on Toru’s goal. Otherwise, you’ll waste Toru’s time by asking irrelevant questions.
Question: How often are you clear on the other person’s goal?
- Consistently?
- Usually?
- Sometimes?
- Rarely?
Me: What would you like to accomplish in our session?
Client: I want to find ways to get better at my job.
Me: What do you mean by “get better” at your job?
Client: Well, I’m having trouble with my boss. I’m not getting my projects done on time. I want to find ways to get my projects done before the deadline.
Me: So your goal for our session is to identify ways to get your projects done before the deadline.
Client: Yes, that’s what I want to accomplish.
Question: What action steps will you take to ensure that you consistently are clear on the other person’s goal?
*To learn more about coaching others on goals, click here.
How often do you talk about your mission?
Want to focus on your mission? If so, talk about it. Why? Because talking helps you focus. The more you talk about your mission, the more you’ll focus on it.
Want to find out how focused you are on your mission? If so, find out how often you talk about it. If you regularly talk about your mission each day, you’re focused on it. If you don’t talk about your mission each day, you’re not fully focused on it.
Consider 5 questions:
- What do you talk about with others?
- What priorities do your daily conversations reflect?
- How does talking impact what you focus on?
- If you talked more about your mission, what might happen?
- What will you do?
What’s God doing?
Good news—God has a plan. He’s already at work. And He’s prepared ways for you to join Him in His work (Eph. 2.10). So, you have the opportunity to be part of God’s plan and work. You don’t have to go figure it all out by yourself or do it all by yourself.
Point: Join God in what He’s already doing.
3 questions:
- How clear are you on what God is already doing?
- How clear are you on how God wants you to join Him in His work?
- How willing are you to join God in what He’s already doing?
- Pray daily for a minimum of 2 weeks.
- Read God’s Word daily.
- Seek wisdom from 5 of God’s people.
How can you increase the impact of professional development?
You want your organization to achieve its mission. Your staff are your key resource, and you invest in them by providing professional development. And you want to ensure that professional development makes a positive impact on the achievement of your mission.
Question: How can you increase the impact of professional development?
Answer: Follow up. If you want to help your staff apply their learning in order to achieve the mission, follow up. Spend 50% of your resources on follow-up, in helping your staff apply what they learned.
Follow up by having professional development participants do 3 things:
- Share what they learned with colleagues. They can report in a meeting, write an article for a publication, or lead a workshop.
- Develop action steps to apply what they learned. Supervisors should monitor these action steps.
- Work with a coach.