To improve the client’s ability to time manage by creating weekly plans to assess how many tasks are completed within 2 weeks is the SMART goal that I’ve developed along with the client. Personally, I believe that the goal was highly achievable and simple to understand/ follow. A significant part of the goal is that it does not require a huge commitment to complete. At the start of the day or of the week, tasks can be determined by the client, which is extremely flexible. Success is determined by the number of tasks completed. For the most part, the goal features reasonable accommodation to the client’s time and account for likeliness to complete the goal.
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As a coach, I believe that there is a lot more that needs to be done. The inability to help my client change her behavioral concern and achieve her goal mean I failed as a coach. I would say, I have done well to maintain a professional interaction with the client when discussing the program. The client asserted that when talking to her about the project, I was an entirely different person. Tone of voice, facial expressions and body language plays an important role during interactions with the client. In conclusion of the project, I realized that I could improve on the motivational aspect between coach and client. There should’ve been more done to help motivate the client to adopt the weekly planning, but it became unsuccessful. Based on the feedback, to improve my skills as a wellness coach, I need to learn better ways to follow up with the client to motivate and remind them of how important commitment is to achieving set goals. This is something that I plan to keep in mind when using the skills learned in class, in a real clinical