Curriculum Assignments
For those of you who own a copy of Personal and Executive Coaching
we offer the following assignments to allow you to test and train
yourself. These assignments are designed to be used while or after
reading Personal and Executive Coaching.
Chapter 1
After reading chapter one be sure to complete the Coaching
Orientation Assesment. Spend some time considering how you can apply
your strengths more effectively or more often. Then, consider how you
can improve your weaker areas.
Chapter 2
After reading chapter two be sure to complete the CAAACS Model
exercise on page 39.
Chapter 3
After reading chapter three list any ethical or legal concerns you
still have. Prepare a message to your instructor or relevent
professional association to seek answers.
Chapter 4
After reading chapter four complete the new client application form
found on the first few pages of the appendix, pages 237-239. Ask
yourself what you would think if you were a new client and consider how
those thoughts would influence a client's relationship to their coach.
Chapter 5
After reading chapter five describe a time when you had an
especially effective working alliance with a client. Describe the
characteristics that made the alliance so strong and identify which of
your characteristics contributed to the alliance.
Chapter 6
After reading chapter six make a list of seven ways you could help a
client move beyond obstacles. Then, imagine a brief discource in which
you apply one of those techniques to a hypothetical obstacle. Repeat
the exercise with each technique on your list.
Review the "Values Clarification" material beginning on page 109.
Then, turn to page 245 in the appendix and complete the values
clarification exercise.
Chapter 7
After reading chapter seven visit the MBTI publisher's website (www.cpp.com) and view a sample of the MBTI Step
II
Interpretive
Report - Form Q. Describe how you could use the information in the
communication, descision-making, conflict management, and change
management sections to help a client.
Chapter 8
After reading chapter eight practise the "Ideal Vision Imagery
Exercise" on page 167, imagining yourself as the client. Then do the
homework inquiry suggested on page 169, reproduced here: "Write a one
or two paragraph vision of your ideal life or career for the next
several years, a brief story of how you want your life to be." Be fully
genuine when you write your vision for yourself, just as you want your
clients to be when you ask them to write a vision for themselves.
Chapter 9
After reading chapter nine reflect on your best leadership
experience. Write a few paragraphs recounting the experience and
analysing what competencies and strengths best assisted you in that
experience.
Chapter 10
After reading chapter nine identify three Emotional Intelligence
Competencies that you wish to develope further within yourself. See
page 197 for a selection of competencies as categorised by Boyatzis and
Goleman.
Chapter 11
After reading chapter eleven review the "Development Plan Example"
on page 218. Then create a new plan, for either yourself or a client,
that includes at least three skills and associated activities.
Congradulations!
You should now have finished the book as well as these supplementary
exercises. Hopefuly, you have also succeded in starting down the path
to becoming a certified coach.
