Optional Annual Review and Planning

Use optional annual review and planning as an optional, client-owned tool while separating observations, sources, interpretations, assumptions, and unknowns.

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When to Use This Tool
A client is considering Optional Annual Review and Planning for one current situation
A client wants to separate observations, interpretations, assumptions, and unknowns
A client wants to preserve choice, consent, privacy, access, culture, power, and context
How to Introduce This Tool Plus

What is directly observed, what remains interpreted or unknown, and which optional question, support, referral, experiment, or no next step feels useful?

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Tool Classification
Domain
Executive
Type
Planner
Phase
Goal Setting Review
Details
45+ min Between sessions As-needed
Topics
Accountability Leadership

For the Coaching Practitioner

Plus
Coaching Scenarios Plus
1 Client choosing an optional use of Optional Annual Review and Planning for context 1
Context

A client brings a situation related to Optional Annual Review and Planning. Confirm their words, direct observations, sources, interpretations, assumptions, unknowns, goal, consent, privacy, access needs, culture, power context, and preferred scope.

How to Introduce

Offer the tool as optional. Explain its limited job, distinguish it from nearby tools, and confirm language, access, consent, privacy, and scope.

What to Watch For

Keep observations client-owned. Do not infer diagnosis, cause, hidden motive, fixed trait, score, truth, risk, priority, or outcome from an answer, blank, label, estimate, difficulty, repetition, or another person's reported behavior.

Debrief

Ask what is directly observed, what remains interpreted or unknown, and whether one optional question, support, referral, experiment, or no next step would be useful.

Flags

Not therapy, diagnosis, medical, business, financial, tax, accounting, investment, legal, employment, or relationship advice. Adapt or stop for distress or risk; use qualified or emergency support when appropriate.

2 Client choosing an optional use of Optional Annual Review and Planning for context 2
Context

A client brings a situation related to Optional Annual Review and Planning. Confirm their words, direct observations, sources, interpretations, assumptions, unknowns, goal, consent, privacy, access needs, culture, power context, and preferred scope.

How to Introduce

Offer the tool as optional. Explain its limited job, distinguish it from nearby tools, and confirm language, access, consent, privacy, and scope.

What to Watch For

Keep observations client-owned. Do not infer diagnosis, cause, hidden motive, fixed trait, score, truth, risk, priority, or outcome from an answer, blank, label, estimate, difficulty, repetition, or another person's reported behavior.

Debrief

Ask what is directly observed, what remains interpreted or unknown, and whether one optional question, support, referral, experiment, or no next step would be useful.

Flags

Not therapy, diagnosis, medical, business, financial, tax, accounting, investment, legal, employment, or relationship advice. Adapt or stop for distress or risk; use qualified or emergency support when appropriate.

3 Client choosing an optional use of Optional Annual Review and Planning for context 3
Context

A client brings a situation related to Optional Annual Review and Planning. Confirm their words, direct observations, sources, interpretations, assumptions, unknowns, goal, consent, privacy, access needs, culture, power context, and preferred scope.

How to Introduce

Offer the tool as optional. Explain its limited job, distinguish it from nearby tools, and confirm language, access, consent, privacy, and scope.

What to Watch For

Keep observations client-owned. Do not infer diagnosis, cause, hidden motive, fixed trait, score, truth, risk, priority, or outcome from an answer, blank, label, estimate, difficulty, repetition, or another person's reported behavior.

Debrief

Ask what is directly observed, what remains interpreted or unknown, and whether one optional question, support, referral, experiment, or no next step would be useful.

Flags

Not therapy, diagnosis, medical, business, financial, tax, accounting, investment, legal, employment, or relationship advice. Adapt or stop for distress or risk; use qualified or emergency support when appropriate.

Tool Flow Plus
Requires
  • None - standalone tool
Produces
  • client-owned observations and sources
  • interpretations, assumptions, and unknowns
  • an optional question, support, referral, experiment, or no next step

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