How to Coach Yourself and Others Influencing, Inter Personal and Leadership Skills | Page 25

Redefine the words:
• You don’t have to learn them, you only need to become familiar with them.
• Learning them isn’t hard, it just takes a little more effort.
Change the time frame:
• The quicker you do it, the easier it will see.
• You have plenty of time to practice and become more comfortable with them.
Explore the consequences:
• Unless you try it, you will never know how easy it can be.
•If you don’t learn them, you won’t be as effective in your job as you could be.
Change the chunk size:
• Chunk up: “is learning hard in general?”
• Chunk down: “how hard is it to learn one specific skill?”
Find a counter example:
• Has there ever been a time when you found learning………easy?
• Have you ever had an experience where you thought something was hard at
first, but you eventually got the hang of it?
Ask for evidence:
• How do you know that?
• Why do you feel