Who Am I?

Pathway Builder 🔒
Domain
Life Coaching
Type
Worksheet
Phase
Discovery
Details
15 min Opener
Topics
Values Identity Mindset

Coaching tools for personal clarity and intentional living.

When to Use This Tool
Early in a coaching engagement and both parties want a single-page view of what the client values, why they do what they do, and where they are headed
Client has been operating on autopilot and hasn't articulated their personal why recently
Client's stated goals feel disconnected from what they actually care about
How to Introduce This Tool Plus

There's a simple three-section worksheet — values, your why, and your goals — th...

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For the Coaching Practitioner

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Coaching Scenarios Plus
1 The client who can describe what they do but not who they are
Context

A 40-year-old senior account executive at a B2B tech company has been in sales for fifteen years. His professional identity is highly developed — he knows his numbers, his methodology, his market. Asked about his values in the first coaching session, he described his compensation structure. Asked what motivates him beyond results, he paused for almost forty seconds. The Who Am I worksheet — values, why, goals — gives him a structured format to produce a single-page answer to a question he hasn't answered in decades.

How to Introduce

Frame this as a document he doesn't currently have. 'Most people who are good at their jobs can tell you exactly what th...

2 The professional re-entering the workforce after an extended caregiving leave 🔒
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3 coaching scenarios with introduction language, observation guides, debrief maps, and red flags
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Tool Flow Plus
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