APPENDIX D
THE COACHING WHEEL
The wheel usually has eight segments, though you can have a different number if you think that suits the client better.
Each segment represents a significant area of the client’s life. An example ‘split’ is:
- Career
- Money
- Health
- Friends and family
- Partner
- Personal growth
- Fun
- Physical environment.
Suggest this to the client: they might want to tinker with it, and this is fine.
The client then grades their life as it is right now for each segment. 10 is the top score; 1 is a low score. The grading should be realistic: for health ‘10’ is not an Olympic gold medallist but what the client would consider would be super fit for him- or herself.
The exercise should be done quite quickly: a minute or two is enough. The ...
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