Listening for Time Troubles
Sunday, May 15, 2011 4 Comments
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Struggles with Time
and Follow-Throughby Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, ACT, MCC, SCAC
Part of ADD Coaching Skills SeriesMost ADD/EFDers have trouble with T-I-M-E. We run out of it, we are continually surprised by it, and we sometimes seem to be completely unaware of it.
All ADD Coaches worthy of the term must remain aware that Listening For your client’s awareness of time and their relationship to time (yes, they do have one!) almost always involves some serious sleuthing on the part of the coach!.
The Following Exercise is designed to help ADD Coaches sharpen their Listening FROM Skills
Not a coach? That’s OK – answer the questions below for yourself. The information will be useful to you in a Peer Coaching relationship [click HERE if you don’t have one of those]. Your functioning insights will be valuable even without an outside observer, but it might be difficult to sherlock in real time or to actuate changes. Do it anyway.