Focus & Equip (2009.09): How often do you talk about your mission?
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How often are you clear on the other person’s goal?
You’re coaching Toru. You have 30 minutes to help Toru achieve his goal. To use this time effectively, make sure you are clear on Toru’s goal. Otherwise, you’ll waste Toru’s time by asking irrelevant questions.
Question: How often are you clear on the other person’s goal?
Me: What would you like to accomplish in our session?
Client: I want to find ways to get better at my job.
Me: What do you mean by “get better” at your job?
Client: Well, I’m having trouble with my boss. I’m not getting my projects done on time. I want to find ways to get my projects done before the deadline.
Me: So your goal for our session is to identify ways to get your projects done before the deadline.
Client: Yes, that’s what I want to accomplish.
Question: What action steps will you take to ensure that you consistently are clear on the other person’s goal?
*To learn more about coaching others on goals, click here.
How often do you talk about your mission?
Want to focus on your mission? If so, talk about it. Why? Because talking helps you focus. The more you talk about your mission, the more you’ll focus on it.
Want to find out how focused you are on your mission? If so, find out how often you talk about it. If you regularly talk about your mission each day, you’re focused on it. If you don’t talk about your mission each day, you’re not fully focused on it.
Consider 5 questions:
What’s God doing?
Good news—God has a plan. He’s already at work. And He’s prepared ways for you to join Him in His work (Eph. 2.10). So, you have the opportunity to be part of God’s plan and work. You don’t have to go figure it all out by yourself or do it all by yourself.
Point: Join God in what He’s already doing.
3 questions:
How can you increase the impact of professional development?
You want your organization to achieve its mission. Your staff are your key resource, and you invest in them by providing professional development. And you want to ensure that professional development makes a positive impact on the achievement of your mission.
Question: How can you increase the impact of professional development?
Answer: Follow up. If you want to help your staff apply their learning in order to achieve the mission, follow up. Spend 50% of your resources on follow-up, in helping your staff apply what they learned.
Follow up by having professional development participants do 3 things:
What 3 things will you put on your course handouts?
You want to target Biblical perspective. So, you decide to include Biblical perspective on your course handouts.
Question: What 3 things will you put on your course handouts?
Here are sample things you could put on your handouts:
Target Biblical perspective. Put 3 things on your course handouts. Today.
How can peer coaching help your students use relevant Biblical principles?
Your 8th graders have finished the rough draft of their essays. The prompt required them to connect course content and a relevant Biblical principle.
Question: How can you help your students use a relevant Biblical principle?
Answer: By having them reflect on their rough drafts. By having them reflect on the relevance of the Biblical principle they used.
Question: How can you do this?
Answer: By having your students coach each other by asking the following 5 questions:
Empower others to help students connect course content, the Bible, and life
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you design assessments so that your students connect a Biblical perspective with their lives?”
Define: Get the facts defined.
In the past week or unit, what connections did your student make between…
1-2-14 Shinkawa Cho, Higashi Kurume Shi, Tokyo 203-0013
How often are you clear on the other person’s goal?
You’re coaching Toru. You have 30 minutes to help Toru achieve his goal. To use this time effectively, make sure you are clear on Toru’s goal. Otherwise, you’ll waste Toru’s time by asking irrelevant questions.
Question: How often are you clear on the other person’s goal?
- Consistently?
- Usually?
- Sometimes?
- Rarely?
Me: What would you like to accomplish in our session?
Client: I want to find ways to get better at my job.
Me: What do you mean by “get better” at your job?
Client: Well, I’m having trouble with my boss. I’m not getting my projects done on time. I want to find ways to get my projects done before the deadline.
Me: So your goal for our session is to identify ways to get your projects done before the deadline.
Client: Yes, that’s what I want to accomplish.
Question: What action steps will you take to ensure that you consistently are clear on the other person’s goal?
*To learn more about coaching others on goals, click here.
How often do you talk about your mission?
Want to focus on your mission? If so, talk about it. Why? Because talking helps you focus. The more you talk about your mission, the more you’ll focus on it.
Want to find out how focused you are on your mission? If so, find out how often you talk about it. If you regularly talk about your mission each day, you’re focused on it. If you don’t talk about your mission each day, you’re not fully focused on it.
Consider 5 questions:
- What do you talk about with others?
- What priorities do your daily conversations reflect?
- How does talking impact what you focus on?
- If you talked more about your mission, what might happen?
- What will you do?
What’s God doing?
Good news—God has a plan. He’s already at work. And He’s prepared ways for you to join Him in His work (Eph. 2.10). So, you have the opportunity to be part of God’s plan and work. You don’t have to go figure it all out by yourself or do it all by yourself.
Point: Join God in what He’s already doing.
3 questions:
- How clear are you on what God is already doing?
- How clear are you on how God wants you to join Him in His work?
- How willing are you to join God in what He’s already doing?
- Pray daily for a minimum of 2 weeks.
- Read God’s Word daily.
- Seek wisdom from 5 of God’s people.
How can you increase the impact of professional development?
You want your organization to achieve its mission. Your staff are your key resource, and you invest in them by providing professional development. And you want to ensure that professional development makes a positive impact on the achievement of your mission.
Question: How can you increase the impact of professional development?
Answer: Follow up. If you want to help your staff apply their learning in order to achieve the mission, follow up. Spend 50% of your resources on follow-up, in helping your staff apply what they learned.
Follow up by having professional development participants do 3 things:
- Share what they learned with colleagues. They can report in a meeting, write an article for a publication, or lead a workshop.
- Develop action steps to apply what they learned. Supervisors should monitor these action steps.
- Work with a coach.
What 3 things will you put on your course handouts?
You want to target Biblical perspective. So, you decide to include Biblical perspective on your course handouts.
Question: What 3 things will you put on your course handouts?
Here are sample things you could put on your handouts:
- A personal testimony that includes your passion about Biblical perspective.
- Bible verses that you want your students to learn. (I like Genesis 1.26-28, Micah 6.8, and Romans 12.2.)
- Biblical principles you want your students to learn. Here are 3 examples: All truth is God’s truth. Be content. Take care of God’s creation.
Target Biblical perspective. Put 3 things on your course handouts. Today.
How can peer coaching help your students use relevant Biblical principles?
Your 8th graders have finished the rough draft of their essays. The prompt required them to connect course content and a relevant Biblical principle.
Question: How can you help your students use a relevant Biblical principle?
Answer: By having them reflect on their rough drafts. By having them reflect on the relevance of the Biblical principle they used.
Question: How can you do this?
Answer: By having your students coach each other by asking the following 5 questions:
- What’s your thesis?
- What Biblical principle did you use to support your thesis?
- What’s satisfying/unsatisfying about the Biblical principle you used?
- On a scale of 1-5 (5 being high), how relevant is the Biblical principle you used?
- What question do you want to ask ____ (teacher’s name) about your Biblical principle?
Empower others to help students connect course content, the Bible, and life
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you design assessments so that your students connect a Biblical perspective with their lives?”
Define: Get the facts defined.
In the past week or unit, what connections did your student make between…
- Course content and life?
- Course content and the Bible?
- What’s comfortable/uncomfortable about having your students connect course content and life? course content and the Bible? course content, the Bible, and life?
- What’s comfortable/uncomfortable for your students in terms of connecting course content and life? course content and the Bible? course content, the Bible, and life?
- How does making connections impact student learning?
- How does connecting course content and the Bible help students apply a Biblical perspective?
- How might connecting course content, the Bible, and life help students apply a Biblical perspective?
- What questions can you ask your students?
- How can you use questions to help your students love God?