Welcome back to The Coaching Gym

I hope today finds you well, happy and inspired & that you enjoyed last week’s gift  ‘2016 The Year That I’ …and that you found it useful (for those of you still to join, sign up below to get access to ALL previous gifts and get every Coaching Gym, direct to your inbox). Last years gifts are available to download in the Coaching Gym members area in case you missed any.

Amazingly, it is the final week of January already!  The Winter chill is definitely in the air here in North Wales – hope you are warm wherever you are.  The spring bulbs are up already and on those days when there is sunshine, you can almost feel the Spring slowly awakening from her slumber.

• So how is 2016 so far for you?
• Have you been feeling inspired & energised with clear goals for this year?

There is still time for Resolution Revolution 2016 – Buy your copy here and get a FREE invitation to the RR16 Hangout.

 

In the meantime, as promised here is a little taster, your FREE gift this week, download it by clicking signing up below for ‘5 Top Tips – Strengths based Resolutions‘. 

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For many of us, a new year brings opportunities for improvement through goal setting. We call such goals “resolutions” at this time of year and human beings are notoriously bad at achieving them. In fact, over 90% of us will not follow-through on our resolutions. Too often we base New Year’s resolutions on improving on our weaknesses as opposed to building on our strengths. Positive psychology tells us that we’re much more likely to achieve goals that are crafted in alignment with what we’re naturally good at and inspired by.

So why not create our resolutions and goals to improve upon our best characteristics and strengths? These are the gifts we are blessed with and it seems contrary to not want to strengthen the very things we are good at.

Often resolutions are more like wishes, not goals. Take a look at any resolutions you may have set so far this year – what do you notice?

During our coaching sessions, we focus on building on strengths and learn to differentiate between needs, wants and desires, whilst creating a plan to get you there. In fact, the average psychological intervention, feedback session, or executive coaching session improves desirable work outcomes, such as job performance, by half a standard deviation. That means that 70% of individuals in a control group — who did not receive any feedback or coaching — would perform below the average of the intervention group. Our independent ROI found similar.

This weeks Coaching Gym, will focus on the science behind strengths-based goal setting and our FREE GIFT this week will leave you with five tips for setting strengths-based goals this year.

Often we look at self-improvement as ways to break bad habits, lose weight, and exercise more, etc. Or if related to work our employer may push us to get more reports written, problems resolved or whatever our job role may be. Often people fail to do better at something because they don’t naturally have a knack for doing it. There is little motivation to develop those skills.

Here’s another approach that I find effective – strengths swaps. If you are good a project planning, offer your planning services as a swap for something you are not as good at. Maybe ask your boss if you could be assigned more project planning tasks instead of problem resolution cases. Just be up front stating that you enjoy the planning activities and they’ll likely agree that your projects are done on time and within budget.

Mention that when it comes to problem resolution, that doesn’t play to your strengths. {Here’s a great place to place praise on a co-worker who is great at solving problems.} Chances are your boss will recognize that he’ll get more projects completed by accepting your suggestion. Maybe there’s a project in the support area you could take on that would improve problem resolution rates.

This is a win-win for you, your boss and maybe your problem solving team mate will get some recognition too.
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I’ve got a few more surprises regarding the history of resolutions packed into my eBook “Resolution Revolution”

We have 5 Coaching Cafe enrollments opening up in January to boost your 2016 AND Resolution Revolution 2016 – THE best Resolution Guide EVER (although I might be somewhat biased;) is available to order now.

To be in with a chance of winning this months prize fill in our survey here.

See you next time, here ‘in’ the Coaching Gym. Until then, wishing you a wonderful week ahead.

Smiles

Marian 

Marian Rosefield

Owner, MD & Coach

Coaching in Partnership Ltd