Harnessing your strengths to progress your goals

Instructions Coach and Be Coached (CBC Model) 

INDIVIDUALLY (5 minutes) 

1. Review your goal and prepare to describe it to another parent 

2. Identify the strengths that will help you progress your goal

IN PAIRS - Coaching Discussion (10 minutes per person)

You will interview each other about your next goal, your strengths and how to achieve your next step right after the discussion.. 

Decide: Who will be the first interviewer and who will be interviewed

Interviewers: fill your peer’s goal details  on the other side of this sheet

1. Write in what their long term goal is. Discuss how the goal supports the interviewee’s life and wishes.

2. Reflect on the interviewee’s strengths.

3. Discuss which strength(s)  they will use to work on their goal and how.       Ask in what way will a particular strength help them achieve this goal.

4. Clarify what is the first achievable step that they can work on right now. Note: It can be to do some research, to make a list of options or register for something that will bring them closer to their goal.

Change roles and repeat

INDIVIDUALLY (5 minutes) 

3. ACHIEVE YOUR FIRST STEP 

IF YOU FINISH EARLY

4.  STRENGTHS SPOTTING DISCUSSION

Ideas for possible discussion questions:

• What did you find out? How did it feel to achieve your first step?

• What were you feeling? 

• Did you feel it anywhere in your body? 

• How might you feel when you achieve the long term goal? 

• What did you enjoy most about interviewing?”

• What was it like to hear your strengths named?

• How did linking strengths to a goal shift your thinking?

This is a prime example of how things can be invisible yet in plain sight. Whether its our child’s strengths, or what our child is communicating, not through their words, but their actions. 

There are things that our children are communicating and we need to be careful that they are not invisible in plain sight”

Next we will review and progress you Child Goal!