The Wheel of Life can be a “hat” for us coaches, but it is a powerful visual coaching tool that is used in many coaching countries. In fact, it can be the best and most flexible coaching tool - in any set of coach tools.
We forget that the Wheel of Life is still new for most of our customers. And even when they encounter this, before he tells them something new, when they use it again, because, like most coaching tools, he can only catch how someone feels at a moment in time.
So, besides the general use of the wheel to look at the balance of life, how else can we use the Wheel of Life to help our customers? Here are 11 new and improved applications for The Wheel of Life:
- Use the Wheel of Life to help your customers set meaningful goals. Low score areas are ideal candidates for your clients to set larger goals. Tip: This is a particularly useful tool for business and career / executive coaches - in order to lower left customers into “soft” areas that improve their lives. This, of course, will benefit their career and business in the long run.
- Use the wheel to deploy and help your customers understand their lives and problems more deeply. Take one of the segments or categories and ask them to plunge into a deer by writing the 8 areas that make up this segment for them. Tip: For example. a & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; the wheel can include savings at home or for a wedding, lower expenses / budgeting, saving for retirement, paying off credit cards, getting paid work, etc.
- Help your customers see how far they come. Use the Wheel of Life monthly or quarterly with your customers, as per registration, to see how they do it, and as a way for them to see how they have improved and grown. Improved grades demonstrate specific coaching value and help clients see their lessons and progress. Tip: A little like looking back at an old magazine and see how far you have come!
- Remove stress from your customers! What about the Wheel of tension The wheels of frustration? Take the usual balance of life. categories behind the wheel and help your client think for free & through their problems. Get them to label the top 8 areas that emphasize them or upset them the most. Ask them to enroll HOW stressful and frustrating each of their areas - out of 10 - and review the results with them. Tip: Ask which area emphasizes them the most? Are there any surprises? How could they lower their points?
- Help your customers worry about life! What about the Wheel of happiness, fun, or even excitement? Depending on what your client is looking for / looking for, ask your client to come up with 8 areas or something interesting or make them excited or happy. Label the wheel segments accordingly and ask your customer to fulfill an action or a commitment for each segment. What do they notice? How could they bring more of each segment into their lives? Tip: Help them find a few wins, i.e. areas where a single action improves their score in a variety of areas?
- For business coaches, use the wheel to determine sales and / or marketing activities for your clients. , Take an empty wheel and add key areas where your customers should take action. Ask your clients to take action for each of them next month. Tip: For example, the marketing wheel may include the following: online social networks, SEO, article marketing, traditional networks, newsletters, trade shows, advertising, seminars.
- Prioritization management. What are your priorities for your client - this may be at work, at home or in life in general. Ask your client to mark each segment and determine their priority 3 priorities. Then ask them to get their satisfaction out of 10 for each area. Tip: What do they notice? Do they have their priorities? or do they need to focus? What actions can they take to improve their scores?
- Understanding what is really important in life. Ask your client to list or brainstorm their priorities or goals — ask them to list everything they want to “Be, do and have” in life, this is a great way to do it. Now ask them to take each priority or goal and go around the Wheel of Life. and ask, “Will this improvement reach my satisfaction in this area?” and for each area that is improved, this goal gets a point. Then you see which goals get the highest and lowest scores. What do they notice? What did they learn? It helps people understand what will truly change their lives, and not what they think will improve their lives. Tip: Suppose your customer wants to buy Ferrari. Will this improve their finances? No. Will their relationships with family and friends improve? Probably no. Will he improve his career? Hardly. Will it improve their pleasure? Yes. And so on, until you get a bill, perhaps 2 out of a possible 8. Now make a great dad. It may not improve your finances or your career (although you never know), but it will help your family relationships, entertainment, health, personal growth, etc., therefore you sometimes get a rating of 6 out of 8.
- Identification of gaps in promotion / new job / career skills , Use an empty wheel and get your client (or you can do it in advance) to designate the Top 8 Skills that will have to get the job or promotion they want. Now ask them to score, out of 10, where they are currently against each of the skills. Finally, assign an action against each of the skill areas where they need to improve their skills. Tip: You can even ask them to define action in areas where they highly appreciate: “What could they do to really succeed in this skill?”
- Help your clients determine what they are looking for in a relationship. This is called the relationship wheel. So, take an empty wheel and ask your client to map out the 8-quality segments that would be the perfect partner. This MUST be done by the client! And then ask them to give an assessment of how IMPORTANT out of 10 each quality. This will help them determine whether attractive or romantic is as important as being reliable, with a good sense of humor or a good parent. Tip: You can even use the strategy earlier in number 8, where you take every personal quality they listed, and give him the opportunity for each area of the Wheel of Life to improve it. What qualities will really matter in their lives?
- General action planning. Simply use an empty wheel to help your client perform actions. Write a goal at the top of the page, and then ask them to write out 8 actions or pieces of work that make up their goal. Tip: Ask them to put a date for each - and they can use the pieces of the pie to write% complete for each area until it ends!
And whatever we use, I would like to ask this question when we finish: “So, if this wheel represented your life / relationship / career / marketing strategy, is it a bumpy ride?”
I hope this has given you some new ideas on how you can work and use the Wheel of Life. in your coaching practice. Try it - it's great!
