Use these questions to prepare for Conversation Number One. Base your assessment upon actual observations.

1. What opening did you observe for coaching?

• breakdown (specify)

• enhancing a competence (specify)

• new possibility for client (specify)

• threat to social identity (specify)

1. What new competence or quality must your client have to address the situation described in #1 above?

2. What is your potential client s current competence in doing this? Write down at least three examples of behavior that verify your assessment.

   Using at least one model, determine the structure of interpretation of your potential client.

• Five Elements Model

  • Immediate concerns

  • Commitments

  • Possibilities

  • Mood

  • Current history

• Domains of Competence Model

  • Facts and events

  • Relationships with others

  • Self-management

• Components of Satisfaction/Effectiveness Model

  • Intellect

  • Emotion

  • Will

  • Context

  • Soul