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If you knew you couldn’t fail, what would you do for the glory of God?
This entry is part of a week-long series on powerful coaching questions. Dennis Beatty, who was mentoring me at the time, originally asked this question of me when I was a university student: “If you knew you couldn’t fail, what would you do for the glory of God?”...
Who can help you?
This entry is part of a week-long series on powerful coaching questions. Let’s say you’re working with a leader who is wrestling with something or having difficulty putting together a plan. When you start asking them questions to help them brainstorm, like “What are...
If it were easy, they wouldn’t need you
Sometimes when I’m coaching people who are running up against very challenging circumstances or wrestling with very difficult problems, I need to remind myself of this: If it were easy, they wouldn’t need you. When people need coaching is when they’re struggling with...
What assets do you already have?
When we are faced with a challenging goal, one of the first places our minds go is to what we don’t have. I could do this if I had__________. A question I like to ask to counter or pre-empt that scarcity mindset is, “What assets do you already have?” When we get...
How do you get from coaching to a missional movement?
Like peanut butter and chocolate, some things are just better together. Coaching and missional movements are like that. You understand the value of coaching. You want to cultivate a missional movement. But what happens when you put those two things together? That’s...
Figuring out your starting point
Before you know what you need to do in order to get where you want to go, you need to figure out where you are. It’s like being in a mall and looking on the directory for the “you are here” tab. You have to know where you currently are to even have a starting point....
The organized coach
A new coach recently asked me, “What if you're just not that organized?” She expanded on her dilemma: “I can ask good questions and be intuitive in the moment. I just don’t know how to keep the whole coaching relationship on track in the bigger picture. I’m not sure...
Coaching a second grader
Here’s a fabulous coaching story by ministry leader Dave Wasemann: I am preparing a fourth grader and a second grader for baptism and first communion. They are related so we meet in the kitchen of one family's home. We have been studying four chapters a week in a...
Making the best use of your coaching sessions
Do you want to double or triple your coaching effectiveness? Here’s an important concept I’ve learned while coaching a lot of ministry leaders over the years. Sometimes I used to spend 75% of the coaching session trying to help the leader identify the key issues to...
Act
Wouldn’t it be great if you never forgot anything? We can’t help you with that in all areas of your life, but we can in your coaching relationships. MyCoachLog has a built-in system for recording and tracking action items. You can send notes and reminders to your...