{"id":8646,"date":"2020-03-26T11:03:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T11:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=8646"},"modified":"2020-03-15T17:42:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T17:42:03","slug":"tips-for-facing-todays-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/tips-for-facing-todays-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Facing Today\u2019s Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given that we all face challenges, approaching them with a solution focus is smart.\u00a0 Whether you are facing challenges yourself or supporting coaching clients facing challenges or both, following are questions to explore yourself and\/or to ask your clients. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8647 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tips-for-Facing-Today\u2019s-Challenges-.jpg\" alt=\"Tips for Facing Today\u2019s Challenges\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tips-for-Facing-Today\u2019s-Challenges-.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tips-for-Facing-Today\u2019s-Challenges--300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tips-for-Facing-Today\u2019s-Challenges--150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tips-for-Facing-Today\u2019s-Challenges--768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tips-for-Facing-Today\u2019s-Challenges--60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Loss of Income<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the financial impact?<\/li>\n<li>What are your reserves to carry you through?<\/li>\n<li>What are your options for cutting expenses?<\/li>\n<li>What are your options for accessing resources in a different way?<\/li>\n<li>What are your options for adding to your income?<\/li>\n<li>What support is available?<\/li>\n<li>What happens is you do not change anything?<\/li>\n<li>What changes are possible?<\/li>\n<li>How will you move forward?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Closure of Children\u2019s Schools<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does it impact childcare?<\/li>\n<li>How does it impact your children\u2019s education?<\/li>\n<li>How long will this be a consideration?<\/li>\n<li>How can you adjust your work schedule?<\/li>\n<li>What flexibility do you have with your job?<\/li>\n<li>Who can help?<\/li>\n<li>Who can you exchange help with?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Inability to Get Home<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where are you now?<\/li>\n<li>What are the travel limitations?<\/li>\n<li>What are the travel alternatives?<\/li>\n<li>How long will you be dealing with the circumstances?<\/li>\n<li>How are you impacted by staying where you are? (Ask follow-up questions about: Financial, Family, and Work Considerations, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Who can help your family?<\/li>\n<li>How can you address work considerations?<\/li>\n<li>What are your options in terms of expenditures?<\/li>\n<li>How will you take care of yourself?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quarantines<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the challenges with being quarantined?<\/li>\n<li>What are the benefits?<\/li>\n<li>What protocols do you want in a place to ensure maximum safety?<\/li>\n<li>What necessities to you have?<\/li>\n<li>What necessities do you want to acquire?<\/li>\n<li>How will you acquire those necessities?<\/li>\n<li>What services are available to help?<\/li>\n<li>What other support is available?<\/li>\n<li>How will you take advantage of the time?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lack of Access to Basic Necessities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is available to you?<\/li>\n<li>What is missing?<\/li>\n<li>What are the resources for acquiring necessities?<\/li>\n<li>How can you ration what you do have?<\/li>\n<li>What opportunities do you have for sharing resources?<\/li>\n<li>What alternatives are available?<\/li>\n<li>How can you maximize what you have?<\/li>\n<li>What are alternatives for what you lack?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Illness<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the status now?<\/li>\n<li>What is the prognosis?<\/li>\n<li>What do you know about taking care of someone with this illness?<\/li>\n<li>What additional information do you want?<\/li>\n<li>Where can you get that information?<\/li>\n<li>What is the best way to take care of yourself and \/ or the person who is ill?<\/li>\n<li>What protocols do you want to have in place?<\/li>\n<li>How will you take care of others who are nearby?<\/li>\n<li>Who else do you want to connect with during this time? How?<\/li>\n<li>How can you make this time as comfortable as possible?<\/li>\n<li>How can you maximize this time?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Death<\/p>\n<p>If there is time available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can you best support the person who is dying?<\/li>\n<li>What do they want in their remaining time?<\/li>\n<li>What conversations are important to complete?<\/li>\n<li>What people are important to connect with?<\/li>\n<li>What planning do you want to do?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After Death:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do you want to honor their life?<\/li>\n<li>What memories do you want to preserve?<\/li>\n<li>What planning is required now?<\/li>\n<li>What must be decided?<\/li>\n<li>What must be managed over time?<\/li>\n<li>What will it take for closure?<\/li>\n<li>What would they say to you if they could?<\/li>\n<li>How will you hold on to the good?<\/li>\n<li>How will you move forward?<\/li>\n<li>How will you celebrate them?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These questions are intended to help whoever is facing a challenge moving forward in the best way possible.\u00a0 The questions are coaching questions based on the tips taught during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/en\/training\/certified-professional-coach\/program-overview.html\">coaching certification.<\/a>\u00a0 There are more questions to ask based on individual circumstances.\u00a0 Use what you learned during your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/en\/training.html\">coach training<\/a> to best help yourself and \/ or others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that we all face challenges, approaching them with a solution focus is smart.\u00a0 Whether you are facing challenges yourself or supporting coaching clients facing &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,470,471,16,40],"tags":[748,48,85,50,86,1112,1111],"class_list":["post-8646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-program","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-challenges","tag-coach","tag-coach-training","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-certification","tag-face-challenges","tag-tips-for-facing-todays-challenges","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8648,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646\/revisions\/8648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}