X Table of Contents Introduction 1.1 Gospel Centered Training 1.2 Maintaining a Clear Focus 1.3 Weekly Development Plan Discussion 1.4 Quarterly Development Plan Discussion 1.5 Master Your Role 1.6 The Cadence of Accountability 1.7 Utilizing the Blessings of the Lord's Storehouse 2.1 Accountability and Talent Improvement (ATI) 2.2 Using the Leadership Pattern as a Learning Tool 2.3 Lead Like the Savior 3.1 Disability Awareness 3.2 Substance Abuse: Causes of Addiction 3.3 Substance Abuse: Signs and Symptoms 3.4 Substance Abuse: Recovery 3.5 Managing Stress 3.6 The Hidden Rules of Two Economic Classes 4.1 Inspiring Others to Become Converted in the Doctrine of Work and Service 4.2 Using AWARE Form as a Tool for Development 4.3 Attendance and Punctuality 4.4 Accepting the Work Role 4.5 Preparing for and Responding to Change 4.6 Managing My Work and Work Needs 4.7 Accepting Supervision 4.8 Coaching Associates on How to Work with Their Coworkers 4.9 Increasing Productivity 4.10 How to Use the Life Skills Library 4.11 History, Foundations, and the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing 4.12 The Stages of Change in Motivational Interviewing 4.13 Reflective Listening 4.14 Open-Ended Questions, Affirmations and Summaries 4.15 Change Talk 4.16 Ambivalence and Rolling with Resistance 4.17 The ABCs of Behavior 4.18 Using Positive Reinforcement to Achieve Behavioral Change 4.19 Introduction to Behavior Modification 4.20 Behavior Modification: Correcting Poor Behavior 4.21 Behavior Modification: Prompting Good Behavior 4.22 How to Use Positive Attitude to Facilitate Change 4.23 Conflict Management 4.24 Decision-Making Skills 4.25 Problem-Solving Skills 4.26 Improving Performance 5.1 Incorporating Assessment Results in the Development Plan 5.2 Ethics 5.3 Maintaining Confidentiality 5.4 Writing Effective Case Notes 5.5 Business Partnerships 6.1 Honoring Agency While Influencing Behavior 6.2 Teaching Self-Reliance
Lesson 1.1

Gospel Centered Training

Lesson Preparation

Before coming to your coaching training, please do the following:

 

Lesson Preview

Effective gospel-centered training requires both learning from the Spirit and training by the Spirit. In the article “Teaching and Learning by the Spirit,” Elder Dallin H. Oaks taught four principles that you can use to enhance your training efforts with your associates. As you seek for the Spirit’s guidance in your training efforts, also look for opportunities to demonstrate the pure love of Christ and show true care and concern for each associate you work with on a daily basis. As you do so, your training efforts will become more gospel-centered.

Learn from and Train by the Spirit

When you focus on gospel-centered teaching, you should never force obedience, have a self-righteous approach, or call associates to repentance. These approaches are inappropriate and can negatively impact associates.

From the following list, choose and complete one or more activities that best apply to your situation.

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Activity 1

With the person next to you, share an experience of when you felt the Spirit during a training experience with an associate.

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Activity 2

In small groups, discuss how you know when the Spirit is directing you while you are teaching a principle.

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Activity 3

Discuss how to train by the Spirit. Write ideas on the board and generate a list of techniques you can use during training that may invite the Spirit into your training sessions.

Be Familiar with Four Principles from “Teaching and Learning by the Spirit”

From the following list, choose and complete one or more activities that best apply to your situation.

For each of these activities, you will need to reference “Teaching and Learning by the Spirit,” which you reviewed as part of the lesson preparation. The four principles taught in the article are:

  1. 1Live worthy of the Spirit
  2. 2Make proper preparations
  3. 3Desire to be led by the Spirit
  4. 4Recognize communication from the Spirit

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Activity 1

Divide into small groups. Read Mosiah 27:34–37, 28:1–9, and Alma 17:2–4 with your group. As you read the scriptures, look for the principles Elder Dallin H. Oaks taught in his Ensign article, “Teaching and Learning by the Spirit.” Discuss the following questions as a group:

  • How did the sons of Mosiah incorporate these principles in their teaching?
  • How can you incorporate these principles in your trainings?

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Divide into two groups. Each group should write a quiz with five questions based on Elder Dallin H. Oaks’s article, “Teaching and Learning by the Spirit.” In your quiz, include the four principles that Elder Oaks teaches in this article.

Once both groups have finished writing the quizzes, have each group take the other’s quiz.

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Discuss Elder Dallin H. Oaks’s article, “Teaching and Learning by the Spirit,” as a group. Ask for volunteers to share any thoughts and impressions they may have had while reading the article. As you discuss the article, ensure that the four principles Elder Oaks teaches are included.

  • How can each of the principles improve training experiences with associates?

Discuss how these principles can be applied at work.

Demonstrate the Pure Love of Christ

From the following list, choose and complete one or more activities that best apply to your situation.

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As a group, share experiences that you or others you know have had with teaching by the Spirit. Discuss how you can incorporate what you learned from the experiences that were mentioned.

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In small groups, review 1 Corinthians 13:1–8. Read the following case study and discuss ways to help Berta by exercising charity.

Berta is extremely difficult to work with. She argues with and talks back to her job coach trainer almost every day. When she is not displaying insubordination and anger, she is passive-aggressive. She will pleasantly agree to do something and then not do it. She loves to gossip about other associates and spread rumors about their behaviors. She openly criticizes her bishop and often calls him names.

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Activity 3

Watch the video “Reach Out with Love” (Mormon Messages for Youth, LDS.org). Then, discuss how you can incorporate the principles you just learned from the video as you work with associates.

Reach Out With Love

Ponder and Plan

“What Lack I Yet?”

Seek to identify a personal or business gap or need.

Spend a few minutes silently pondering what you've discussed during this lesson. Listen as the Holy Ghost helps you identify areas where you can improve. Record your impressions in your journal under the question “What Lack I Yet?”

“What Must I Do?”

Seek ways to close the gap or develop the required talent(s) to meet the need.

With the guidance of the Spirit, create your plan of how you will improve and close the gap(s) you have identified. You may use one or more of the exercises below, your own strategy, or a combination of both. Record this plan in your journal under “What Must I Do?”

  1. 1 Consider the influence of the Spirit in your life, and commit to do at least one thing to increase direction from the Holy Ghost in your life.
  2. 2 Choose an associate for whom you would like to increase your love (care and concern). Write down specific steps you can take that will help you increase your love (care and concern) for that individual. Share your plan with a staff member and ask for feedback.

After a few minutes, those who are comfortable doing so can share their impressions with the group.

“Therefore What?”

Seek understanding, and then share what you learned.

During the week, focus on implementing the plan you created. Record your impressions or lessons learned in your journal under “Therefore What?” You will be given time at the beginning of next week's lesson to share your experience with the group.

“Because love is the great commandment [see Matthew 22:37–39], it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our Church callings, and in our livelihood”

Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “The Love of God”, Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2009, 21

Additional Study Material

Use this material if you would like to learn more about teaching with the Spirit.