Power Tool Assessment Name: Sandeep Singh Arora Date: 5th July 2012 Student ID: Email: sandeepsingharora@gmail.

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My Power Tool - Transitory vs. Anchored

By Sandeep Singh Arora Phil Jackson the famous basketball coach said that the glory of a transient victory is not as important as the cultivation of team spirit and belief. One can believe that winning, getting to a solution, getting to the answer is an end in itself, but Phil Jackson is highlighting that the benefit could be transitory and that it is important to look at ways to make the progress more sustainable. What is Transitory in terms of coaching? Transitory as defined in the dictionary means short lived, tending to pass away, not persistent. Similarly in a coaching environment it can be very easy to give solutions, advice but the benefits of such a process will be short lived and transitory. Coaching is about helping the individual to think for themselves, find their own answers and discover within themselves their potential and path to success. The route to finding the answers for ones own self will involve awareness, discovery and creating new thinking. Simple awareness of the issue will create a behavioral change but the change is likely to be transitory in nature. During the coaching process there are times when the client is made aware of issues that are blind to him (others are aware of the issue but the person concerned is not). This could be an observation by the coach or feedback received from peers, direct reports in an executive coaching environment. The awareness of the issue can make the client more conscious of trying to make a change but will it result in strong commitment to the change? For example - a client would not listen to others ideas and even if he did pretend to listen, would always insist on his idea being taken forward by the team. This made the team feel miserable and they shared the same during the 360 feedback. The awareness of the issue resulted in the client making an effort to listen to his team members but found it difficult to give up his position. Soon he was back to his earlier behavior. The behavioral change was transitory at best. Impact of Transitory behavioral change Clients are likely to fall back into old patterns and this could further reinforce the disempowering beliefs. Behaviors are influenced by our beliefs, which are formed over time based on our experiences and environment. The beliefs are part of the subconscious and influence behavior.

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There can also be a tendency for clients to look for safe issues like depression, procrastination to mask the true issues i.e. fear or anxiety from a career shift, commitment in a relationship. All the above can over time lead to lack of selfbelief and motivation. The coaching manifestations Transitory change is likely to happen when awareness and planning for behavior change is not rooted in cognitive learning. Change in most times involves not just awareness in the conscious but also thinking and alignment in the subconscious mind. Transitory behavior changes happen when coaches fall into the trap of giving advice, when they are under pressure to complete sessions and get the client to an action plan without any new thinking. The questions that a coach should ask are as follows: - Am I being authentic? Am I present and focused on the benefit of the client? Am I willing to devote more time beyond the contract so that client can find their answers? - Does the language, energy and tone of the client reflect an insight, an Aha moment that has led to a new perspective for the client? - Has change been integrated with beliefs to provide an anchor and make it sustainable? Power tool The power tool of Transitory vs. Anchored opens our mind to the polarity between change that is short lived and that which sustains over time. It explores the ways in which we can get our clients to overcome the barriers (limiting beliefs) to change and get them motivated and committed to change by ensuring that it is anchored to an empowering belief. Anchored change leads to positive emotion, momentum and lasting change leading to effectiveness and success for the client. What does Anchored mean? The dictionary meaning of the word Anchored is to hold the object firmly, to secure. Anchoring is a term/ tool used in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and stands for changing the mind state to a more resourceful and empowering mind state. Anchors can be a stimuli that call forth states of mind (thoughts and emotions) that allow the client to feel confident and take on the challenge. The term Anchored has been inspired by NLP, but I have defined it as follows: Anchored is when change is rooted in an empowering belief, a belief that contributes to the clients unique perspective on situations. Without our being aware, everything we do is governed by our belief system. They act as filters and influence our choices and how we respond to any situation. They are assumptions that we have made about ourselves and how we see the world. They are powerful as we could distort or omit data to support the
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beliefs. It is therefore important to get the client to identify their limiting beliefs / disempowering beliefs. Changing/ reframing the belief will tend to change what the client will do. The change and action plan will then be anchored and be more sustainable. Anchored Change - Coaching Questions and Tools We all encounter clients who are struggling and dont seem to move forward inspite of having the skill and capability to do well. This is because there are limiting beliefs in their subconscious that are influencing their conscious behavior. Our actions or behaviors are influenced by our belief system, which are assumptions that we have made about the world based on our experiences and environment. Limiting beliefs tend not to be true and therefore don't allow the client to move forward. Therefore for ANCHORED behavior change, the coach must first facilitate self awareness of the beliefs that are influencing the behavior. The coach needs to get the client to move from conscious understanding to the subconscious reasons for the behavior. The coach with the questions needs to get the client to think about the unnecessary assumptions and rules that convince them about the behavior. Questions that link how the behavior is leading to their defining themselves. Listening is also important as clients reveal their beliefs during conversation. Please find below a tool called the "Behavior to Belief Tree" that will help in the identification of the limiting beliefs.

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The second phase to the Anchored behavior change is to Reframe and Reprogram the limiting belief. Reframing is about changing perspective or the way we see things. Reframing happens in the mind and leads to a new perspective (empowering belief) that allows the client to see possibilities and experience positive emotions i.e. belief is that getting the degree is everything and therefore a client is anxious and worried about missing the deadline. Reframed belief could be that the "journey is as important as the destination" which leads to new possibilities and commitment to do additional credits and research. The third and final stage of the Anchored Behavior stage is to get the client to use the insight and new thinking of the empowering belief to develop an action plan for change. To us the energy, positive emotion to get the client to commit to and confidently make the change. By ensuring that the change is ANCHORED to the belief ensures that the client experiences tremendous positive emotion every time he attempts the change. This helps build self esteem and motivation that are important ingredients for success. The role of a coach in this process is to facilitate self awareness. To question so that the client can understand if their beliefs are supporting them to move forward. The coach must respect the clients beliefs even though they might not agree with them. The coach must try and see things from the clients perspective, which will lead to empathy, trust and support for the client. The support is important, as the client could be scared as they attempt to themselves question the assumptions, which form their worldview. Conclusion: The power tool of Transitory vs. Anchored Coaching is about facilitating client growth and change. Growth happens through self awareness and the self esteem that comes from the change that is ANCHORED to an empowering belief. This leads to long lasting change that is based on subconscious beliefs and not just short lived change based on conscious awareness. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) References Evidence Based Coaching. David B Peterson NLP in 21 Days. Harry Alder, B Heather David Turner on Phil Jackson Authentic Coaching and the Exquisite self. A Mcleod Coaching Behavior Change. Margaret Moore, G. HighStein Values and Beliefs. Mike Munro Turner

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