The "I D.A.R.E" Coaching Model

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Coaching through change and uncertainty to help you create your certainty.

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety”- Abraham Maslow.

The only certainty in the world of business is uncertainty, and the only constant is change! 

The business cycle, from start-up, to growth, to maturity, is a story of change and uncertainty. 

The career journey, from promotion to changes in employer, changes in the team, changes in reporting lines, and changes in the systems in which you operate, is a story of change and uncertainty. 

Yesterday can never be repeated and tomorrow cannot be predicted.

Through the "I D.A.R.E" coaching model, I will help you embrace change and uncertainty.

My style of coaching has roots in positive psychology, and cognitive behavioural coaching. I utilise the CliftonStrengths assessment (Gallup), and look for unhelpful or limiting thinking that is impacting feelings and behaviours.

My purpose - "To make things better."

My intent - "To help you create your certainty."

My Intention - "To help you achieve your desired, future state."

"I am an intuitive and authentic coach who is internally confident in an infectious way. Enthusiastic about the future, I help you to visualise possibilities and discover your best route to achieve what matters to you. Together we will transform something great into something amazing."

The I D.A.R.E coaching model.

Identify:

I take time in establishing the agreement for our coaching partnership, using a future-back, outside-in approach. By looking at your desired future state and by considering the views and needs of your stakeholders, we will identify your aspirations. By taking the future-back approach at the identify stage, it results in more audacious goals. By considering outside factors, a deeper understanding and clarity of direction is achieved. We then seek to understand what is important about your goal, and what makes it urgent, and we gain clarity on how you will know when you have arrived at your desired destination. Moreover, this enables us to decide on the right coaching package for you - either three, six, nine, or twelve sessions - and the duration that best serves your needs.

The identify stage must happen ahead of Discovery, as the insight from your CliftonStrengths Report should not influence your goals or objectives. Strengths give useful insight into the best "how" for you, they do not determine "what" you can do. Tackling the identify stage first ensures that goals are not restricted or influenced, thus reducing the risk of self-imposed limitations.

Discovery:

Utilising the CliftonStrengths assessment (Gallup), you will identify your talents and begin to develop your strengths. You will begin by taking the CliftonStrengths assessment where you will discover your full CliftonStrengths 34 report. Once you have digested your report, and considered what your most dominant strengths mean to you, we will have a one-hour discovery session (Session One) to help you "name it" (Gallup) and "claim it" (Gallup). I will help you understand how your most powerful strengths show up and serve you; we will shine a light on your "blind spots" (Gallup) and discuss how you can manage your areas of lesser talent.

Following the discovery session, I will provide you with some tools to help you to utilise your strengths in your daily life, as people who have an opportunity to use their talents and strengths are 3x as likely to report having an excellent quality of life (Gallup).

The discovery from the CliftonStrengths assessment provides useful insight that we can draw upon and utilise in the coaching sessions that follow.

"What will happen when we think about what is right with people rather than fixating on what is wrong with them?" – (Don Clifton)

Action:

You choose the goal for each session. This allows you to move toward your overall objective for the coaching engagement. Through powerful questions, active listening, shared observations, and intuition, I support you in identifying your real challenge.

My high-challenge support approach helps you to decide on the right actions for you, as who knows what's right for you better than you do? (Paul Wilson)

Where appropriate, I help you to draw on the insights from your CliftonStrengths Report, to utilise your core strengths to support you in achieving your goals in the most natural and effective way for you. “Aim it” (Gallup).

Re-write your rules:

I help you to turn your session goals into reality, by raising new awareness, insights, and learning. I support you in applying them to other areas of life; this increases the impact of the coaching session beyond the session goal and helps you to start to re-write your rules.

By re-writing your unhelpful thinking patterns, you can re-write your limiting beliefs, which will drive new behaviours and actions, propelling you towards your desired goals. 

We will discuss the support you require, and we will identify any potential hurdles that could stand in your way so that you can map out the route to your desired destination.

Evolve:

Between sessions, you will apply your new rules, see through your actions, and actively apply your new insights and learnings. Furthermore, by looking for opportunities to apply your core strengths in daily situations, you will continue to evolve into the best version of yourself. 

You will be encouraged to journal your experiences and I will be on hand to challenge and support you through your journey of evolution. At the start of each subsequent session, we will reflect on your experiences and celebrate your progress toward your overall goal, including your successes along the way, as you begin to evolve into the future you that you desired at the beginning of our partnership.

Beyond individual evolution.

By integrating CliftonStrengths into the coaching model, the benefits run deeper than the insight it provides for the individual. To gain the full impact from this tool, you can explore the interplay of strengths between yourself and others within your organisation and the system in which you live. 

There are numerous opportunities and benefits that you can explore: 

• The power of partnerships between people with different strengths. 
• How to best lead another based on their strengths. 
• How to best onboard a new member of the team. 
• How a team can best function utilising the strengths within that team, via the “team grid” (Gallup). 
• Supporting Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging by providing a universal language that appreciates and embraces differences.

The systemic lens further enhances the potential future impact, by considering the difference that can be made to all the systems in which you exist.