For coaches
Exploring value to strengthen coaching practice
Coaches work alongside individuals to help them develop and enrich their capabilities. They are often invited in when someone is facing a challenge, a decision point, or a sense that something in their workscape is no longer working as it should.
Coaches may be engaged directly by individuals or commissioned by organisations, but the focus of the work remains the same. The aim is to support the individual to make sense of their situation and take action that improves how they experience and navigate their workscape.
If this reflects your work, read on!
Why you should care about value
Many coaching conversations revolve around effort, confidence, motivation, or choice. Often, what sits beneath these themes is value. (Not to be confused with values.) What feels worthwhile. What feels draining. What no longer feels fair or sustainable.
Without a language for value, these conversations can remain abstract. Insight may emerge, but translating that insight into practical action can be harder. Clients may understand how they feel without being able to explain why or what to do next.
Value literacy gives coaches a way to help clients surface what truly matters to them in their workscape. It supports more focused conversations about contribution, expectations, and balance. When clients can see where value is created, lost, or misaligned, they are better positioned to take responsibility for change.
How you can use the value(x) approach
The value(x) approach gives you language, tools, and methods to help an individual explore what’s valuable in, for and from their workscape. Here are options for uplifting your coaching.
- Extend your coaching practice to include value-based conversations, without confusion with values, with our handy VALUE framework.
- Read the article ‘A Value-based Approach to Shaping a Workscape‘ to gain an overall understanding of taking a value-based approach in your personal workscape. Consider how this might influence your coaching practice.
- Get your own set of Workscape Value Elements deck of cards and experience the Value Exchange Ledger™ method for yourself as a foundation for helping individuals make sense of what value they want to claim, contribute, or create in their workscape.
- Learn how to coach individuals in the Workscape Value Exchange Ledger method so you can better support their growth and address performance matters.
- Read the article ‘An Invitation to be a Value Creator‘ to explore how indiviudals might be a value-creating entity in their workscape.
- Check out other methods and explanations useful to the workscape context in our Resource collection.