Comments on: Goal or Ghoul? The Key to Your Action Plan

By: Ellen

Ellen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:27:46 +0000

I read that the most important thing to keep telling yourself is that you “want” to reach your goal or do that work you have been putting off for awhile, as opposed to telling yourself you “need” to do it. Positive thinking makes all the difference.

By: Mary Jo Asmus

Mary Jo Asmus — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:08:56 +0000

Thanks Dan! Glad you liked the examples. I always get asked, “What kinds of things do your clients work on?”. There you go.

By: Dan McCarthy

Dan McCarthy — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:45:59 +0000

Mary Jo -
This is great information! Thanks for sharing it. I like the actual examples you`ve shared too, it helps make the process real. I look forward to reading about the next step.

By: Mary Jo Asmus

Mary Jo Asmus — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:27:13 +0000

You’re welcome, Dallas. So glad I could help.

By: Dallas Bragg

Dallas Bragg — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:42:31 +0000

Wow, this is great! I couldn’t have paid for information this valuable! I am new to coaching, and have had difficulties getting started. This really helps. Thank you so much for sharing. Some others I have asked will not give information so freely. True leaders want others to be successful.

Dalls

By: Mary Jo Asmus

Mary Jo Asmus — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:46:04 +0000

Thanks for stopping back, Bob and providing your additional perspective. It sure sounds like your intuition on the goal, and the “ring true” part were spot on.

By: Bob Hall

Bob Hall — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:43:12 +0000

This person felt the need for coaching, gave me a personal assessment of reality, and I helped the manager determine the specific goal for improvement, in this case primarily improved communication with staff.

Previous events that were explained to me made the assessment and goal determination ring true even though I was hearing from one perspective. I guess what might have been pre-determined was the need. The focus wasn’t as visible, but didn’t seem too hard to glean.

I could explain more about the “under the radar” nature of the coaching, but not in this venue.

Thanks for asking.

By: Mary Jo Asmus

Mary Jo Asmus — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:12:47 +0000

Bob, Thanks so much for your encouragement.

I’m curious how you determined the focus of the coaching? Could it be that since it was done under the radar, it was something that was pre-determined?

By: Bob Hall

Bob Hall — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:20:22 +0000

Mary Jo,

This is an outstanding post with really great information that I will incorporate into my coaching.

The coaching I’ve done recently was in a setting where no organized feedback existed and sensitivities around the position made gathering any feedback very difficult. In fact, the coaching was conducted somewhat “under the radar”.

Your blog is no-nonsense and practical and this particular post is particularly so. I look forward to the one on action planning.