59 Action Planning Listening Questioning Encouraging Requesting The coach has listened and both the coach and coachee have learned more about how the coachee wants to move forward. Many things associated with that such as attitudes, beliefs and perceived obstacles have surfaced through questioning. The coachee has been encouraged to keep thinking forward and expressing more and perhaps the coach has challenged the coachee with a request to stretch in some way. Now it’s time to put it all into action. Action Planning requires the coach to become a co-creative partner in designing relevant and pragmatic actions with the coachee. Relevant, in that they are appropriately aligned with the goal, outcome or solution that has been identified and clarified in the coaching dialogue. Pragmatic, in that they are achievable, attainable and practical considerations have been explored and weighed. Becoming a co-creative partner means that the coach enters into the creative process with the coachee as: An elicitor of ideas A brainstorming partner An advocate A challenger A champion of their resourcefulness An accountability partner At no point in Action Planning does the coach tell the coachee what to do and how to do it. Instead, the coach using Listening and Questioning, allows the coachee to discover that they have the ability to create relevant and practical action steps that can get them from where they are to where they want to go. Core Skill 5 - Action Planning PART FOUR - THE 5 CORE COACHING SKILLS “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. ” - Carl Jung
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