3 More Ways to Use the Coaching Wheel: Find Calm, Be a Better Parent & Get a Promotion!

2) A Parenting Wheel

Use a Blank Coaching Wheel to help clients prioritise which areas of their parenting to focus on.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Ask clients to label a blank wheel with 8 things they consider important to be a good parent.
   • We don’t want our clients simply listing the areas they need to improve.
   • Instead what we want here is for them to ponder in a heartfelt way, the 8 things the client thinks make up being a good parent.
   • If it helps, you can ask them to consider what their own parents did well—and didn’t do well—when they were growing up.
2. Next, ask your clients them to score how well they think they’re doing in each area.
   • IMPORTANT: Ask your clients to be kind and patient with themselves as they consider their scores. This is simply a tool to identify and prioritise areas to focus on.
   • TIP: Do not allow your client to use this as an opportunity to ‘judge’ themselves! If it helps, ask them to imagine that an extremely kind and understanding parenting expert is doing the scoring.
   • TIP: If necessary, remind clients that being here and working with you is a wonderful example of being a good parent (eg. being willing to learn and wanting to improve!)
3. Review and discuss the resulting scores. Ask questions like:
   • So, as you look at your completed parenting wheel, how do you feel?
   • What surprised you? And what didn’t?
   • Which area most needs your attention?
   • And which segment would you be most excited to work on?
4. Finally, develop an action plan.
   • One option is simply to focus on the areas that have the lowest scores. But my recommendation is to choose 3-4 areas to work with:
     • First ask them to choose 1-2 areas with a high score and then ask how they could boost this area they’re good at!
     • Then ask them to choose 1-2 areas with low scores, and come up with an action plan to raise these scores as well.

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3) Get a Promotion at Work Wheel *

Help your clients get that promotion with a Blank Coaching Wheel!

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Ask your client to label the wheel “My Promotion Wheel” (or similar).
2. Next ask your client to identify 8 key areas they need to be competent in (eg. knowledge/skills) to get their promotion.
   • TIP: Your client may first need to do some pre-work to identify the skills/knowledge needed for the promotion.
   • This might mean some homework like online research, talking to the HR department and/or their boss and reviewing the job specification.
3. Now ask your client to score how competent they are currently in each area out of 10.
4. Review your client’s competency scores and make an action plan.
   • Clarify whether each ‘gap’ is a skill or knowledge gap. This will help when it comes to choosing actions!
   • As they look at their wheel scores, what most surprises them? Excites them? Scares them?
5. Next, explore action ideas!
   1. If a competence is 7/10 or less:
      • How can they raise their competency levels in the areas where they are 7/10 or less?
   2. If a competency is 8/10 or more:
      • How can they highlight their competence and strengths in these areas where they already excel?
6. Finally make an action plan and identify next steps or actions

* If you like this Promotion Wheel idea, check out our Career Wheel below:

We also turned this popular Promotion Wheel idea into a done-for-you Career Wheel Tool with instructions. Use this exercise to help your clients get a new job or promotion. Now also in our Career Coaching Toolkit!