{"id":5607,"date":"2010-11-22T05:42:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T05:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=5607"},"modified":"2016-08-17T16:52:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T00:52:59","slug":"coaching-tips-freemasonry-which-apron-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/coaching-tips-freemasonry-which-apron-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching Tips From Freemasonry: Which Apron Is Best?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever noticed how coaching tips<\/strong><\/a> can show up in the strangest places? Take Freemasonry for example. My husband has been a freemason since before I met him and he’s held many positions within that fraternity. Until his recent promotion to Inspector for the Grand Lodge of California, he held the job of Officer’s Coach in his local lodge. Consequently coaching tips<\/strong> have been flying fast and furious between us for some time now! This blog comes from a conversation we had about which apron he should wear to an event he attended as part of his new responsibilities.<\/p>\n

What Do Masonic Aprons Have To Do With Coach’s Hats?<\/h3>\n

Masonic aprons aren’t like the BBQ aprons we see in the summertime. They are worn ceremonially by the officer corps of freemasonry. They identify of the rank and position of the wearer, and hold a message about what responsibilities he has in relation to other Masons. In this case, the choice was to wear his past master’s apron\u2014indicating that he has had the honor and responsibility of running his lodge for a year, or wearing his inspector’s apron, indicating his new authority and responsibilities for the three lodges now under his purvue. As life coaches we wear figurative hats rather than aprons, but the question of \u201cwhich one do I wear to give the message I need to give\u201d isn’t much different. How do you decide which hat to put on when you interact with your client? Here are some coaching tips<\/span> to help you make the decision.<\/p>\n

Coaching Tips On The Coaching Hat You Choose<\/h3>\n

As a life coach, your style and comfort zone fall into one or more of five basic coaching models.<\/p>\n

1. Consultant\u2014you provide advice and information in usable, bite-size chunks.
\n2. Friend\u2014you listen without an agenda, provide support and clarity.
\n3. Strategist\u2014you use the information your client provides to work out a plan to reach his goal and act as a sounding board for his ideas.
\n4. Guru\u2014you instill confidence just because you say he is worthy of it.
\n5. Leader\u2014you give instructions and provide accountability to get your client into action.<\/p>\n

One of the best coaching tips<\/strong> I know is to get very clear on what role fits you most comfortably. Then you will know your most effective coaching style. Another of my favorite coaching tips<\/span> is that once you are clear about your comfort zone, you can step out of it more easily when your client needs you to do so to get the results he wants.<\/p>\n

Hats or aprons. The best tip of all is that it’s all about knowing who you are and what you need to do to get the result you want.<\/p>\n

Hope you took some great value out of this post today! I\u2019d love to hear your feedback, so make sure you leave a comment<\/strong> with your thoughts or questions. And also, you can click on the Twitter button below to retweet this article\u2026 Thank you<\/strong><\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n

Dorine G Kramer
\nJTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever noticed how coaching tips can show up in the strangest places? Take Freemasonry for example. My husband has been a freemason since before I met him and he’s held many positions within that fraternity. Until his recent promotion to Inspector for the Grand Lodge of California, he held the job of Officer’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[950],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-coaching-tips","tag-coaching-tips","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19113,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions\/19113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}