Coaching Goals

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The goal of this exercise is to increase awareness of the strengths of the client’s social environment. The insights that result from this exercise can be used to help clients cope with difficulties and realize their goals. 

The goal of the exercise is to make clients aware of the impact of bias and the implications of faulty affective forecasting for well-being. It can make clients aware that it is important to enjoy the present moment, rather than (continuously) believe that happiness will be found in the future if certain conditions are being met. In other words, postponing happiness for some uncontrollable future circumstance is unlikely to result in happiness.

The goal of this exercise is to help clients deliberately create savoring rituals around small, everyday moments of pleasure. In this way, clients may learn to stop, notice, enjoy, and prolong the positive experiences that can be found in everyday activities. 

The goal of this exercise is to help clients become aware of what they are doing right to manage a particular problem and to highlight their strengths and move away from problem-focused thinking. 

The goal of this exercise is twofold. First, the exercise can make clients recognize that the end of something is also the beginning of something new. Having something positive end can not only be negative, but can also create room for something positive to begin again in its place. 

The exercise can help clients become aware that this requires a shift in perspective from focusing on things that are not there anymore to seeing the potential of the future. Second, the exercise can help clients become aware of what currently prevents them from adopting a more optimistic outlook when doors close. This insight can be used to develop a more positive outlook for future “closing door events.”

The goal of this tool is to help clients evoke and savor the feeling of awe. 

The goal of this exercise is to bring awareness to the moments of experiencing a flow-state. 

The goal of the exercise is to make clients aware of the well-known process that inhibits happiness: hedonic adaptation. In addition, this exercise requires participants to think of ways to prevent hedonic adaptation in the future by focusing on changes that are likely to result in long-lasting increases in happiness.

There are two primary goals of this exercise: 

1. To help the client develop the skill of savoring 

2. To build positive emotions 

The goal of the exercise is to increase "well-being" by consciously performing acts of kindness. Becoming more aware of one’s kind behavior toward other people has been found to increase subjective happiness (Otake et al., 2006). 

This activity aims to promote emotional well-being and resilience by rewriting a previously embarrassing or shameful narrative with humor. 

The purpose of this tool is to generate a new, shared understanding of a team functioning at its highest level, and to increase the optimism of team members.

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The goal of this tool is to provide an analogy for the process through which positive interventions aim to increase authenticity. 

The goal of this exercise is to create a graphical representation of the potential use of existing strengths that could be utilized more or less frequently. The advantage of using this approach is that a client can immediately see what strengths are being emphasized too little or too much. In addition, this exercise offers a helpful starting point for creating plans to increase or optimize strengths use.

This exercise aims to help clients become aware of the positive aspects of their daily lives in a playful way. 

This exercise aims to increase the client’s mood by writing about a positive experience for three consecutive days. 

The goal of this exercise is for clients to connect with their values in a creative and playful way.

The goal of this tool is to help clients clarify their values and find meaning by creating a bucket list.

This exercise aims to introduce the notion of choice points to clients to give them more freedom and choice in their behavior. 

The goal of this tool is to help clients reflect on and clarify their values in specified life domains. 

The goal of this assessment is to investigate the client’s past actions that allowed them to live in alignment with their values and to use this information to formulate concrete actions that can be taken in the present to promote value-based living. 

The goal of this tool is to promote value-congruent behavior by advising people on the benefits of saying no as well as guiding them on how to say no. 

The goal of this exercise is to offer clients a simple and playful way to explore meaning in their lives intuitively. 

The goal of this exercise is to increase individuals’ awareness of personal values by considering one’s mortality. 

The goal of this exercise is for the client to set actionable goals that will contribute to their journey of living a purposeful life by: 

■ Connecting the client’s gifts, talents, passions, and values to altruistic actions or behaviors. 

■ Helping the client use their altruistic ideas to create actionable goals that will give back to others and make valuable contributions to the world. 

The goal of this exercise is to help team members identify with one another by constructing their unique group identity. Using a collaborative process, this exercise aims to enhance team cohesion by helping members focus on a shared mission. 

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The goal of this exercise is to gain insight into a client’s core values and goals that are driven by authentic, intrinsic motivation. This is done by helping the client think outside their normal limitations.

The goal of the BEVS is to identify and measure personal values, values attainment, and persistence in the face of barriers. 

The goal of this exercise is to create awareness of the discrepancy between the values of a client and the extent to which the client lives in line with their values. This tool assesses the time clients devote to valued (and less significant) areas of life and the time they wish to devote to these areas.

The goal of this exercise is to help clients enhance their value-based living by using the metaphor of a lantern to uncover, connect to, and protect personal values. The metaphor allows for a playful yet insightful introduction to personal values.

This tool was developed to increase self-knowledge of one’s values. 

The goal of this exercise is to help clients express their values creatively. This exercise enables a playful and intuitive search for one’s core values that, when finished, can easily function as a visual reminder. Increased awareness of one’s core values is likely to facilitate living a meaningful life.

This exercise aims to help clients take steps to translate their most important values into committed actions. This exercise helps clients generate feasible goals that enable them to live in line with their values. The larger goal of translating values into committed actions is to help the client live an authentic, purposeful, and intentional life. 

 The goal of this tool is to (1) illuminate individual family members’ strengths, (2) identify patterns of family strengths, (3) facilitate a positive family discussion about strengths, and (4) enhance family bonding and interconnection. 

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In general, positive feedback is rare. Although our clients may have received occasional general positive feedback from others, they often lack such feedback on a deeper level. The reason for this is that they do not receive feedback that specifies what they did that made a difference. 

In addition, many clients do not actively seek this kind of information. This is because they may be unaware that a deeper level of feedback is possible, or they may not even know what questions to ask to elicit such feedback.

The goal of this exercise is to consider potential jobs through the lens of personal strengths. Rather than selecting and applying for jobs based on previously acquired skills, this exercise allows clients to match jobs to their strengths. 

This exercise has several goals: 

■ to improve the performance of individuals and the team as a whole by allowing team members to use their strengths more effectively at work 

■ to create more opportunities for team members to use their strengths in different ways 

■ to enhance team cohesion 

■ to enhance awareness of others’ strengths for support 

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The goal of this exercise is to increase the client’s knowledge of their strengths by promoting daily introspection. During strengths-spotting interviews, clients are typically asked to reflect on past experiences. 

"However", "no matter" how accurate these experiences may seem, they are all reconstructions from memory. This exercise circumvents this problem by addressing experiences in real-time, in daily life. This is a straightforward way to identify one’s strengths.

The goal of this exercise is to allow group members to look at other group members through the lens of strengths. In this way, group members deliberately start to think about the positive characteristics and contributions of other group members. This positive lens can help increase group cohesion and, at the same time, promote an appreciation of the unique contributions that individuals can bring to the team. 

In an organizational context, this knowledge may be used to divide tasks or assignments based on the strengths of group members. This may be done instead of relying exclusively on biographical information, such as education or years of experience in a position.

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The goal of this tool is to help people examine the extent to which they express a given social strength outward (to others) and inwardly (to themselves) to identify and address discrepancies between these types of strength use. 

The goal of this exercise is to gain insight into the specific ways in which the strengths of a client are manifested in their life. “Signature strengths” are strengths we bring to the table across multiple settings. This exercise, therefore, addresses multiple areas of strength use to determine whether a strength can be considered a true signature strength. 

Additionally, this exercise helps clients become aware of how their strengths help them and others. Again, this is very personal: strengths can be beneficial in many ways and in different circumstances.

The goal of this tool is to help clients (1) identify a strength collision that is contributing to a current interpersonal problem and (2) "work towards resolving the problem by adopting each individual's perspective."

This tool is designed to help clients develop character strengths by acknowledging and celebrating their strengths via journaling. 

The goal of this exercise is to increase awareness of personal strengths by analyzing crucial moments in life. 

This exercise is designed to help participants practice listening for strengths and giving constructive feedback. This exercise allows participants to learn personal and positive things about one another that they would not have learned otherwise, which enhances relationships between participants.

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In this exercise, clients are asked to imagine what it would be like to be self-employed. Considering oneself from this perspective of autonomy can reveal interesting information about one’s preference for the type of work and colleagues. In addition, it can reveal interesting information about the relationship to work in general. This perspective can help clients think outside the box when considering new job opportunities. 

This exercise has several goals. The first goal is to learn to look at others, especially those who are inspirational, through a lens of strengths. The more we become accustomed to “looking through the lens of strengths,” the easier and more natural the process becomes. This exercise can be a beneficial way to start cultivating a strengths-based mindset in teams. The second goal is to analyze why a person is considered inspiring. Why does someone choose a particular person? 

The choices people make in this exercise often reveal personal preferences or wishes. Perhaps they consider the strengths of the chosen candidate significant. Perhaps they would like to develop the same strengths as the person that inspires them. The personal nature of this part of the exercise can also be beneficial in terms of team building.

Can be taken individually  

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This exercise aims to introduce the concepts of “strengths” and “weaknesses” in a practical way that allows discussion.