Goal Guide & Weekly 1-on-1 Coaching Calls
Goal Guide & Weekly 1-on-1 Coaching Calls
(For leading a team through a Life Mastery 1 session)
(For leading a team through a Life Mastery 1 session)
The primary purpose of the Goal Guide is to ensure that you move forward during your 3-month training period.
The primary purpose of your Weekly 1-on-1 Coaching Calls is to ensure that you move forward with your Goal Guide, while simultaneously building your Support Community.
The primary purpose of your Weekly 1-on-1 Coaching Calls is to ensure that you move forward with your Goal Guide, while simultaneously building your Support Community.
Part #1 Weekly Goal Guide
Detailed instructions for your Goals and Goal Guide are included in the COURSE.
Detailed instructions for your Goals and Goal Guide are included in the COURSE.
In Summary:
You will list three, 3-month goals, which will cover three areas of your life: Personal / Career / Altruistic (‘Doing Good’). If you are involved in this training through an organization, the organization may require that you include one of their goals as well (which may replace your ‘Career’ goal). These 3-month goals are ‘Outcome’ goals. They describe an ‘outcome’ you would like to achieve.
In addition to having three, 3-month goals, you will also have three, 1-week goals (one weekly goal for each monthly goal). These weekly goals will be used to help you stay focused and on track for your monthly goals, and you will share them each week with members of your support community, including your Team Leader and your Team Partners (more on this further below). These 1-Week Goals are ‘Activity’ Goals… they will describe the activities you will do to ensure the outcome of your 3- month goals.
You will adjust your weekly goals regularly as you gain additional insights and skills, and as you learn from your mistakes and accomplishments. You may even wind up changing your 3-month goals as you learn more about yourself and your capabilities.
When you fill out your Goal Guide (see ‘Downloads’ section of the INTRODUCTION), make sure they are:
You want to have an emotional component attached to each goal, and you want to be able to measure weather or not you are consistently moving forward in the direction of your goals.
The purpose of these goals is to ensure that you achieve maximum value from this course and finish the course knowing that you have made significant and measurable gains.
You will list three, 3-month goals, which will cover three areas of your life: Personal / Career / Altruistic (‘Doing Good’). If you are involved in this training through an organization, the organization may require that you include one of their goals as well (which may replace your ‘Career’ goal). These 3-month goals are ‘Outcome’ goals. They describe an ‘outcome’ you would like to achieve.
In addition to having three, 3-month goals, you will also have three, 1-week goals (one weekly goal for each monthly goal). These weekly goals will be used to help you stay focused and on track for your monthly goals, and you will share them each week with members of your support community, including your Team Leader and your Team Partners (more on this further below). These 1-Week Goals are ‘Activity’ Goals… they will describe the activities you will do to ensure the outcome of your 3- month goals.
You will adjust your weekly goals regularly as you gain additional insights and skills, and as you learn from your mistakes and accomplishments. You may even wind up changing your 3-month goals as you learn more about yourself and your capabilities.
When you fill out your Goal Guide (see ‘Downloads’ section of the INTRODUCTION), make sure they are:
- Short enough to memorize (and easily describe to others)
- Beyond your current reach, but possible
- Fun, exciting, important, or something you are passionate about
- Specific and Measurable
- Compelling & Vivid
You want to have an emotional component attached to each goal, and you want to be able to measure weather or not you are consistently moving forward in the direction of your goals.
The purpose of these goals is to ensure that you achieve maximum value from this course and finish the course knowing that you have made significant and measurable gains.
Tips:
- Ideally, your goal will stretch you beyond your comfort zone; it will be something that challenges you to reach, something inspiring, and something that you might not have even attempted had it not been for this program.
- You will want to limit each goal to only one or two sentences in length, so you can easily memorize and share it with others. Example: ‘I will finish writing my book.’
- You will want to state your goals in an ‘affirmative’ (as opposed to the ‘negative’ manner). Example: ‘I will increase my income by 20%.’ As opposed to ‘I will keep from getting fired’.
- Each goal must be specific, measurable, and quantifiable, as opposed to being general, or abstract. Example: ‘I will lose 20 pounds.’ As opposed to ‘I will be healthy and fit.’
- The 3-month goal must be an ‘Outcome’ goal as opposed to an ‘Activity’ goal. The ‘activity’ is how you will attain the ‘outcome’. Example: ‘I will run in a marathon by June 4th’ As opposed to ‘I will be training to run in a marathon.’
- The 3-month goal must be ‘compelling and vivid’. Example: ‘I will lose 25 pounds so I can wear my awesome outfits from last summer, play tennis again, and keep up with my grandkids.’
- Your 1-Week goal will also need to be clearly defined, and something that you are committed to achieving within 1-Week. You will either reinforce or change this goal every week depending upon the success it brings you each week toward your 3-month goal.
- Another benefit of the 1-Week Goal is that it gives you something very specific and personal to apply your weekly course lessons to, as you will also be asked to apply what you are learning each week to the achievement of these goals.
- You will observe the same formatting for this 1-Week goal as you did with the 3-Month goal in regard to length, affirmative framing, measurability, etc.
Part #2 Weekly 1-on-1 Coaching Sessions
Of the many tools we use for helping you achieve your goals, one of the most effective includes the use of a Support Community.
Your Support Community will be comprised of many different individuals, however, some of them will be specifically trained in supporting your goals.
The first of these will be you Team Leader, followed by your Team Partners, and then any other members of your Support Community who you care to enroll in this task.
Your Support Community will be comprised of many different individuals, however, some of them will be specifically trained in supporting your goals.
The first of these will be you Team Leader, followed by your Team Partners, and then any other members of your Support Community who you care to enroll in this task.
Team Leader
Weekly 1-on-1 Call
Weekly 1-on-1 Call
Each week you will participate in a private 1-on-1 telephone call with your Team Leader. This call will provide valuable support toward the achievement of your course goals. During this call your Team Leader will follow a specific protocol that is aimed at helping you set and refine your goals, identify any self-destructive habits, ‘stories’, or behavior that may be holding you back, encourage you, and assist you in staying on course. This entire process can be achieved in only 10 minutes per week, leaving you with lots of time for other priorities.
Each week, you will:
If you do not send in this document, your Team Leader will not call you on the following day, as your Team Leader needs to see the changes to your guide in order to properly coach you on the following day. It is imperative that you turn in your guide each week. Doing so also demonstrates your level of commitment to yourself and the program.
o If it IS moving you forward at an acceptable pace, you will discuss ways in which you might reinforce this goal to make it even stronger… if possible, by further applying the lessons in this course.
o If it is NOT moving you forward at an acceptable pace, you will discuss possible reasons for this and determine what changes need to be made in either the goal or in your thoughts and behavior. And
then you will declare those changes in your revised 1-Week goal.
Each week, you will:
- Email an updated copy of your Goal Guide to your Team Leader. This email will include in the subject title the words ‘Weekly Goal Guide’ along with that days’ date. The email will be sent the day before your weekly 1-on-1 Coaching Call so your Team Leader has time to review it.
If you do not send in this document, your Team Leader will not call you on the following day, as your Team Leader needs to see the changes to your guide in order to properly coach you on the following day. It is imperative that you turn in your guide each week. Doing so also demonstrates your level of commitment to yourself and the program.
- Do your best to respect your coaches time (as he/she will yours), thereby keeping the sessions to only 10 minutes each. This will require effort from both parties.
- Discuss the progress you are making toward each 3-month goal. This will include an estimation as to whether you believe you are ahead, behind, or on schedule.
- Discuss each 1-Week goal to determine whether or not it is moving you toward your 3-month goal, and at an acceptable pace.
o If it IS moving you forward at an acceptable pace, you will discuss ways in which you might reinforce this goal to make it even stronger… if possible, by further applying the lessons in this course.
o If it is NOT moving you forward at an acceptable pace, you will discuss possible reasons for this and determine what changes need to be made in either the goal or in your thoughts and behavior. And
then you will declare those changes in your revised 1-Week goal.
- Discuss ways in which you are applying the lessons you’ve learned during the past and previous weeks toward the achievement of your goals.
Team Partner
Weekly 1-on-1 Call
Weekly 1-on-1 Call
Each week you will participate in a private 1-on-1 telephone call with your Team Partner. This call will provide valuable support toward the achievement of your course objectives. During this call you and your Team Partner will follow a specific protocol that is aimed at helping you each set and refine your goals, identify any self-destructive habits, ‘stories’, or behavior that may be holding you back, encourage you, and assist you in staying on course. This entire process can be achieved in only 10 minutes per week, leaving you with lots of time for other priorities.
And additional reason for this weekly Team Partner call is that it offers both you and your Team Partner an opportunity to ‘practice’ supporting others with weekly 1-on-1 calls, so that if you each become Team Leaders, you are prepared and comfortable with the process of reviewing weekly and 3-month course goals.
Each week, you will:
And additional reason for this weekly Team Partner call is that it offers both you and your Team Partner an opportunity to ‘practice’ supporting others with weekly 1-on-1 calls, so that if you each become Team Leaders, you are prepared and comfortable with the process of reviewing weekly and 3-month course goals.
Each week, you will:
- Ask each other if you will be on the upcoming Team Call.
- Discuss your 3-month goal and the progress you are making toward it. This will include an estimation as to whether you believe you are ahead, behind, or on schedule.
- Discuss your 1-Week goal to determine whether or not it is moving you toward your 3-month goal at an acceptable pace.
- Discuss ways in which you are applying the lessons you’ve learned during the past and previous weeks toward the achievement of your goals.
TIPS
- Never ‘judge’ someone else’s goals. It is not for others to say whether a goal is ‘good’ or ‘bad’, only to question whether the goal is ‘inspiring’, or whether it is helping them to ‘reach beyond their comfort zone’. We can encourage them to make sure their goals are challenging enough to inspire them, but not so challenging that they see them as being impossible.
- You might ask if they feel the goals are ‘specific and measurable’ and whether they are ‘compelling and vivid’ if the goals seem to be missing these elements.
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