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5.5.5 Topics5.5.5 Key Learning Points

Encouraging Exercise Part 1

Take 3 minutes and write down:

Two people you want to encourage
One way you can authentically acknowledge each one

Be Supportive:To always be wanting the most for the coachee and willing to symbolically walk with them the whole way. Patient, Tolerant, Consistent, Accessible, Collaborative.

The Coach:

Demonstrates patience.
Is consistent.
Is encouraging and acknowledging.
Is available and accessible.
Is a collaborative partner.
Being Supportive means the coach, in their way of being and with the language they use, gives the message that they will be there every step of the way with the coachee on their path to achieving their goals.
Patience and tolerance are two hallmarks of being supportive.
Allowing someone the time and space to work things out and arrange things in their way and in their time demonstrates genuine support of their unique way of working, thinking and acting.
Tolerance for who they are as a person and their unique way of being supports people to shed their self-consciousness and the need to manage perceptions.

Without the pressure of feeling judged, people tend to open up to new possibilities and behaviours that moves them into being at their best.