How to start coaching yourself

Before you have try out your coaching skills in your Voco conversations, we recommend that you use yourself as a guinea pig first! Not only will it give you the chance to familiarise yourself with the coaching process but it will help you to see the benefits first hand.

We recommend that you start by thinking about what you want to get out of your Voco experience and work through these questions, some of which follow in our recommended coaching process:

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Start with an open question:

- What do you want to get out of your Voco membership?

- What do you hope will be different / better because of your Voco peer-coaching conversations?

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Give time for context:

- When will you fit your conversations in? Will you set aside a regular time slot?

- What challenges / difficulties might you face?

- What other activities are you doing at the moment to address these period in your career journey? How could they support your Voco conversations?

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Explore the possibilities

- What can you do to make sure that you get the best out of your Voco conversations?

- What challenges do you think you might face?

- How do you expect your Voco conversations to feel?

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Make a commitment

Complete the action plan below. You can use this throughout your Voco experience and can adapt it as you wish:

What I want to get out of the Voco experience:

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The things I would like to discuss / would like support with with are:

To get the best out of my Voco experience I will:

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Make a commitment

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