A Coaching Power Tool Created by Benedicto Garcia
(Coach, UNITED STATES)
Power Bar explores client’s sources of energy, endurance, and power to propel the client’s careers, vocations, businesses, relationships, handling transitions and lives to new heights.
Power Bar is the element of the Raise the BAR coaching model that looks specifically to the sources of ones power to raise the quality of awareness of beliefs that fuels forward movement, raise the degree of accountability for actions as a strategy to achieve goals and aspirations and raise the level of understanding of results to evolve values and inform decisions.
Power Bar power tool explores the following internal and external resources that generate the fundamental energy, endurance and power to raise the client’s bar of performance:
- Power Habits
- Power Support
- Power Body
- Power Words
- Power Activities
In the course of the coaching engagements, these Power Bar tools are strategically tapped to unleash the power to raise the client’s performance bar.
Power Habits
Explores the client’s thoughts or beliefs around effective habits and design actions to start incorporating these powerful habits and track related results to allow tweaking, or deciding not to continue or even introduce a new one.
Here are some of the possible coaching questions:
- How can effective habits affect your life?
- Name 3 of your habits and elaborate on each one as it pertains to its purpose and effect in your life.
- Can you think of a habit that you may not be aware you have?
Power Support
Explores the client’s thoughts or beliefs around support systems and design actions to examine current support systems and structures, identify new ones and even re-evaluate non-functioning associations anchored on what supports the client’s goals.
Here are some of the possible coaching questions:
- What are the support systems that you have now and how do each one support you?
- What does it feel like to help someone?
- What does it feel like to ask for help?
Power Body
Explores the client’s thoughts or beliefs around overall ones physical make up as it affect efficiency and effectiveness to support and push forward the client’s goals.
Here are some of the possible coaching questions:
- In a scale of 1-10, how are you, health wise?
- What are the top 3 activities that you currently do to be “healthy”?
- What are the top 3 activities that you currently do that your body would complain if it can?
Power Words
Explores the client’s favorite passages, saying, words of wisdom or phrases to surface personal meanings. These Power Words become more powerful as they are now not just words from someone but are alive from within.
Here are some of the possible coaching questions:
- What are your favorite sayings?
- Pick a saying from your list. If you are to rephrase this saying in your own words, what will it be?
- How does this saying manifest in your life?
- What aspects of this saying you wish shows more in your life?
Power Activities
Explores the client’s activities and routines considered to achieve clarity, focus, resolve to effectively work on goals and aspirations. Example of activities include: exercising, sports, yoga, meditation, volunteer work, being coached, mentored, etc.
Here are some of the possible coaching questions:
- When you are feeling emotionally, mentally, or spiritually low, what do you do?
- How does this activity improve your state?
- List down 3 power activities you wish you do more often.
- Do you have any activity that depletes your emotional, mental and spiritual energy?
These Power Bar tools are like the pole that can anchor the client’s goal to catapult the client’s life to a chosen spectrum.
