Coaching Handbook: An Action Kit for Trainers and Managers

Purpose

This exercise helps the coachee to commit to a course of action by verbally finishing a sentence .

Resources

This will take approximately 15 minutes. No equipment is required.

Notes to the coach

Below we give you some of the sentences that can be used to help a coachee commit to the action plan. However, this activity can be used with any sentence; for example, it is often used to evaluate a development activity. Make up your own sentences as appropriate.

Instructions

Tell the coachee that you are going to give the first part of a sentence and the coachee has to finish it with something that is true for him or her. Some sentences to use are:

• The first thing I am going to do after today is. . .

• I am going to ensure that. . .

• I will avoid. . .

• When I put my plan into action I am going to. . .

• I will. . .

• I will not. . .

• I must. . .

• I must not. .

• I have to. . .