Motivation Activity2

Career Whiteboard Coaching is a method that helps people find their motivation and pursue it. It involves creating three columns on a whiteboard: current state, ideal state, and actions. In the current state column, individuals assess their strengths, growth opportunities, likes, and dislikes. In the ideal state column, they envision where they want to be and what they want to be doing. The actions column is used to outline specific steps towards the ideal state. The whiteboard serves as a mirror, allowing individuals to visualize their path and become more motivated to achieve their goals. The coaching process is then put into action to help individuals progress towards their ideal state. What we're about to teach you is a career development that really stems from helping people find their motivation and pursue their motivation, and it's called Career Whiteboard Coaching. If you happen to have a piece of paper, grab it right now and just write down two vertical lines to create three columns. You will have column one, two, and three. Now, the first column, title that current state, where they're currently at. Ask them, what do you feel like your strengths are? What do you feel like you have opportunities to grow? What do you love about what you're currently doing? What do you like about what you're currently doing? And what do you dislike about what you're currently doing and potentially would like to have taken off your plate? Now, that's column one, and you literally write this. You write this on the whiteboard. You can do this in person or digitally. Now, there's a reason for that, and we'll get to that. It stems from a visualization self-awareness technique and strategy. Number two, most of the time we go from column one to column two. You're going to go all the way over to column three, and you're going to title that ideal state. And you ask them, ideally, where do you want to end up? What would you be doing? What would you love to be doing more of that maybe you're not doing enough of now? What would you like to be doing? What's something you'd like to have taken off your plate? What's that ideal spot you want to end up, whether it be now, six months, six years from now? What does that look like? What would you be doing? The reason I use those questions is so often after we even teach it to leaders, I'll have a leader say, you know, what's your end game? Is it a promotion? And that's called a run-on question. Now you've got someone thinking promotion. Uh-oh, he wants to promote me. I don't want to go into people management, or I don't want a promotion in this department. But now I can't say no. That subtlety makes a huge, huge difference. Okay? So once you get a picture of that, the ideal state, the desired state, and then you go to the column two, and you title it actions. And you put an arrow. Underneath the arrow, you put numbers one through five. And you say, what specific things do we need to do together to move in the direction of your ideal state? And they start answering. What they're crafting out is their own motivation, career development, coaching plan. Here is a very cool thing. Okay? The coolest thing is what they're looking at isn't just a whiteboard. It's a mirror. They're looking at themselves. So when people can visualize how to get from point A to point B to point C, they're more willing participants to travel that road because they have a destination to get to. They see how to get there. That's why when using a whiteboard, a coach is so powerful, because now they're not looking at you as the boss. They're looking at the whiteboard, which is themselves. It serves as a mirror. And then they can start to envision what's possible. Now, once you do this, obviously you have to put the coaching into action, which we'll talk about as we go into the activity in the other sections.