life coaching with STEPPA

RE: life coaching with STEPPA

Hi STEPPA is :
Subject
Target Objective
Emotional context to gain motivation
Perception made consciously for new choices
Plan
Pace
Adapt or Action the plan

Devised by Angus McLeod in 2003 author of Performance Coaching and Me, Myself, My Team

Am studying Coaching at present and any reference material that people have found useful is welcomely received.
Miranda

RE: life coaching with STEPPA

Errorism

well Miranda commented before me and so... there you have it!

Miranda

welcome to Hp and especially the Life coaching forum. So you are studying life coaching? Fantastic! As for resources that might be useful... well there so many and my bookhelves are carmmed with useful literature. Perhaps Pm and let me know what exactly are you lookimng for. I am sure that i will be able to help you. And BTW if you need any help in becoming a strong and powerful coach feel free to tap my brain and my experience.

All the best.

RE: life coaching with STEPPA

Thanks for the help that was usefull

Garry

RE: life coaching with STEPPA

Hi Alex
Areas of current study are as follows :-
Relevance of choice, ability to analyse thoughts and willingness to grow and learn, beliefs and values, imagination and insight.
I am able to get the facts across however my tutor wants me to develop my thinking - perhaps I need to develop my study further in order to be more expansive in my responses. The problems with home study is that you miss the dialogue - so thanks for offering your advice.
Miranda

RE: life coaching with STEPPA

Miranda

yes, I know exactly what you are talking about. So.... what are you doing about it? What are you finding most challenging?

On a more practical level, true, you would need to develop your thinking process and expand your thinking laterally and in depth. Try to focus on an issue and see how far and how deep you can go in thinking about it. One important tip is obviously to practise coaching as mich as you possibly can.

There are also a number of books which you can look at to help you and support you in this. And particularly helpful is to try and use some NLP techniques which are very powerful in the thinking and communication process.

Relevance of choice
How can you support people in making the right choices for them? Are you clear what "choice" actually means? Are you aware of the power games that surround choices? Are you aware of the emotional conditioning, of the self limiting beliefs that interact here?

ability to analyse thoughts
See my comment at the beginning of this posting

willingness to grow and learn
This is a key issue for our clients. Unless they are willing to do so then .... there is little scope let alone purpose for coaching. That has to start with you and then you need to make sure that your clients are ready to adapt, change, move on. This is certainly not done by giving them a series of positive affirmations, which might help, but rather in developing a rapport with the client so that he/she can trust you and take the step forwatd that he/she needs to take. It is in supporting your clients to learn to trust themselves more and more and above believing in themselves that people will change.

beliefs and values
This is CRUCIAL area. The important point first of all is that you clearly understand the difference between values and beliefs. Think of how your values and beliefs affect your life. The same applies to our clients. And because of this, how can we make sure that our clients set goals that are on line with their values and beliefs? How can we make sure that those values and beliefs do not hold them back?

imagination and insight
This is something that you will develop more and more as you learn to and grow as a coach. It is really allowing mind and heart to flow together in a logical pattern that brings clarity and support to our clients.

Well I hope this helps a bit but feel free to come back and ask more if you need/wish to. Take care.

RE: life coaching with STEPPA

There is a good article on STEPPPA (it has three "Ps", not two) available by a link through Angus McLeod's website - a Google search on STEPPPA should throw it up. Glad to have found the forum - like Miranda I too am studying coaching, aiming to consolidate my coaching experience into something more formal and qualified.

david

RE: life coaching with STEPPA

David

welcome to HP and to the Life Coaching forum. As a Senior coach and the moderaor of this forum I want to welcome you to share your experiences and if you need any support in your training to be a successful coach then please let us know.

All the best.