Coach The Game
The Heart and Soul of Coaching: Game Plan, Practice, Play
 DTMOPP

Program Benefits

The Coach The Game program gets to the heart of what most people expect from a coach:
1) The ability to teach them how to play the game better by helping them learn, practice and refine the skills of the game AND to guide them with an effective personalized game plan.
2) The ability to debrief the game to facilitate development and learning; to celebrate successes in a way that expands awareness and to debrief losses in a way that promotes growth and restores desire to get back into the game.
3) Solid knowledge of the game and a clear method for guiding them to the results they desire. Your players / clients trust you to have a way of doing things that is reliable, consistent and grounded in experience.

In many coaching theories and schools of thought, knowledge of the game is grossly overlooked, even dismissed. Not here. We know that your knowledge, wisdom and experience is one of your greatest assets as a coach and in this program we show you how to refine it and leverage it for the maximum benefit of your players / clients.

There are three major themes in this program:

1) Personalized Learning and Game Planning
2) Evaluate Progress to Increase Performance
3) Coaching Method

Personalized Learning and Game Planning
Here we get into the guts of what it takes to get better at playing a game through coaching: PRACTICE. And we delve into the art of crafting a game plan with your player / client that has them excited about getting into action.

Topic 1: The Art of Personalized Learning and planning

Personalized learning and planning is a real art. It requires dancing on the fine line between suggesting a specific action and encouraging them figure it out for themselves. Finding a hybrid between these two requires grace, patience and skill. This is where the coach helps the client design a strategy and action plan based on the situation and the clients strengths

Topic 2: Reading the Coachee level of overwhelm

One of the most essential clues that the coach must read is the coachee current level of overwhelm. If the coachee is NOT overwhelmed then the coach will help the client most by challenging him/her to focus on desired results and find their own answers to current challenges. If the coachee IS overwhelmed then the coach will serve the client best by guiding and sharing solutions. If the coachee is somewhere in between complete overwhelm and no overwhelm, then collaboration will serve the client best

Topic 3: Designing practices for learning and results

One of the primary jobs of the coach is to create situations for the player / client to practice the necessary skills to play the game better. Establishing the coachee game / objective as a series of practices is a powerful context for learning and results. This is because it is assumed that the coachee is trying to accomplish something that they have not done before. Guided by the coach, designed practices allow the coachee to gradually create predictable results. These practices then become the plan for sustainable activity.

Topic 4: Collaboratively Designed Solutions and Action Plans

At its best, coaching is about the coach and client working together to craft solutions and activities that help the client reach his or her goals. This class helps provides the "how-to" of creating solid solutions and gives examples and options for arriving at actions plans, all in a highly collaborative way. Learn to navigate "with" your clients instead of "for" them.

Topic 5: Introduction to the 15 Listening Clarifiers

A coach needs a way to hear and organize all that a client is saying. These 15 Clarifiers do just that, which frees you up to be with the client vs trying to figure out what they are saying or where to jump in.

Evaluate Progress to Increase Performance
Here you will learn the fine art of designing a scorecard for the games your clients are playing. With a scorecard you will have a tangible way to track results and performance. AND have tool to guide you and your client on the path to excellence and mastery. You will also learn how to celebrate victories and debrief losses in a way that has your client excited about the next game.

Topic 1: Developing an action oriented scorecard for the Game

An essential element of a GREAT GAME is a way to keep score. Here we will discuss how to design any endeavor into a winnable game that can be played. We will share with you a basic scorecard concept for you to use as a template. We will discuss the differences for games that are based on repeating activities (MOST GAMES) and those for one-time project plan type of activities. Having a scorecard that inspires action is a powerful TANGIBLE way for your client AND you to track results. Without it, you never really know if you are a winning coach.

Topic 2: Acknowledging and debriefing failures and making course corrections

Failure is a natural part of the path to success. The key is to acknowledge failure quickly and learn as much as possible from what did not work. Every failure, every challenge can be leveraged if the coach and coachee are willing to look and learn. But this way of working requires courage because looking at ones shortcomings is often unpleasant. When done frequently and objectively however, it can be a hugely effective tool.

Topic 3: Celebrating accomplishments and victories and leveraging success

Celebrating accomplishments and victories with a coachee is one of the truly rewarding aspects of coaching. It is an opportunity to champion the client and explore what it all means in the big picture of life. It is a time to relax and enjoy. Then it is the job of the coach to help the coachee focus on leverage; How can this success be leveraged into the next big objective?

Coaching Practice and Method
Topic 1: Expanding your certainty as a coach

The number one factor that determines if a client will hire a particular coach can be summed up in one word: certainty. A client will only hire you as a coach, and make the investment of time and money, when they are certain that you can help them do what they want to do. Certainty can not be faked or forced! It is a feeling that you have inside of you that comes from knowing that YOU know what you are doing; That you have what it takes to get results.

Topic 2: Designing Your Coaching Method

In the Coach-Two-Win program you learned the basic coaching method. In this session you will craft your own coaching method using Coach-Two-Win as a basis. Knowing your method will serve you well in your initial conversations with a potential client. Your method is the way you go about something. Your clients / players expect that you have a way of working that works; that you know what you are doing. Having a well crafted method takes care of that.

Topic 3: Understanding the 15 Client Deliverables

Our view is that every several minutes during a coaching session, value is being delivered or created. It is just that the client (and often the coach) have not recognized it or been able to put it into words. In this overview of Client Deliverables, you will learn this language and we will show you how to weave these terms into your coaching sessions so that your client will recognize all that they are receiving from you. And interestingly, as you learn these 15 Deliverables, your coaching will also shift to ensure that you are delivering these during your coaching sessions. Quite clever when you think about it. And, the more/better your clients understand what they are getting from you during their coaching sessions, the more they will stick with you and have faith in the process until the "big result" occurs.