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Best Year of Your Life Presents “Coach Your Self Up,” a six-week online course with master coach Mike Normant starting June 7, 2021
Mike is the former head of Global Learning & Development at eBay
Coach Your Self Up teaches you practical self-coaching techniques to identify and break through self-limiting thought patterns and behaviors. Learn to be your own coach and take more ownership of your life and career development. You will be learning in community with one of the top experts in the coaching field.
“The CYSU course was terrific and extremely transformational for me. I highly encourage this course to anyone who is looking to become more self-aware and learn how to overcome any self-limiting behaviors.” ~ Ben E, Sales Team Lead
How do you want to “show up” in your life… at home, at work, socially?
Our behavioral patterns have huge implications for our overall life and career success. Many of us consciously or unconsciously exhibit habits that can impede our judgment, productivity, collaboration or enjoyment in life.
Learn how to overcome self-limiting behaviors
In this course you’ll discover and prioritize self-development opportunities. You’ll learn an approach to create positive behavioral shifts and apply it to a self-limiting behavior you select. In addition, past participants report improvements in focus, emotional intelligence, interpersonal relationships, decision making, and satisfaction.
Self-Assessment Exercise: Self-Limiting Behaviors
Where Do You Get In Your Own Way?
Self-Limiting Behaviors
A key focus of Coach Your Self Up is to help you identify and begin making shifts to one of your own Self-Limiting Behaviors. You will learn a repeatable process such that you can circle back and work on other Self-Limiting Behaviors at any time.
If you aspire to reach your fullest potential, it will serve you to make these positive changes. How you “show up” in life and at work has huge implications for your overall life and career success.
Here are three common self-limiting behaviors:
Listed below are additional common examples. Simply click to expand either of these lists. Please pause and reflect on which of these behaviors may be part of your own experience.
- I’m too easily distracted during meetings and conversations.
- I’m unable to say “no” (when it’s a reasonable and viable option).
- I (talk too much / don’t speak up) in meetings and conversations.
Listed below are additional common examples. Simply click to expand either of these lists. Please pause and reflect on which of these behaviors may be part of your own experience.
This set of examples pertains to any individual at any organizational level
Examples of Self-Limiting Behaviors…
- I frequently interrupt others when they’re speaking.
- I don’t listen to others when they’re speaking.
- I speak too softly.
- I solicit the input of others with no intention of changing my position.
- I take credit for the work of others.
- I blame others when things go wrong.
- I talk about others behind their backs.
- I react too negatively / emotionally when issues arise.
- I get frustrated too easily / often.
- I complain a lot.
- I’m unable / lack confidence to make decisions.
- I’m condescending and/or dismissive of others.
- I frequently “bully” others until they acknowledge that I am right.
- I am consistently late.
- I don’t solicit advice or help from others when it would help me to do so.
The second set of examples pertain to managers and leaders
Examples of “leader-centric” Self-Limiting Behaviors…
- I don’t set clear expectations for one of more of my direct reports.
- I don’t conduct regular 1-on-1 meetings with one or more of my direct reports.
- I frequently cancel 1-on-1 meetings with one or more of my direct reports.
- I hold on to tasks/projects that could be effectively delegated.
- I stay overly involved in the business of one or more of my direct reports (micro-managing).
- I avoid discussing performance concerns with one or more of my direct reports.
- I don’t provide ongoing feedback (positive and constructive) to one or more of my direct reports.
- I discuss/raise/highlight performance concerns about one or more of my direct reports in a public setting.
- I speak negatively or gossip about my boss or any other employees with one or more of my direct reports.
- I hold on to strong performers when it would be in their best interest to move to another group or role.
- I make decisions without soliciting appropriate team-member input.
- I make promises/commitments I know my team can’t deliver.
- I don’t challenge superiors even when I believe I have an important POV to share.
- I don’t stand firm when the situation calls for it.
How powerful would it be if you could make a sustainable positive shift in these types of behaviors?
Keep reading to see all the other ways this program can help you.
What to Expect
Coach Your Self Up is a development program that provides participants with the approach, techniques, and skills to coach themselves to heightened levels of success at work, and in all aspects of their lives.
Unlocking Potential Through the Self-Coaching Path
Coach Your Self Up is a 6-week, instructor-led, online course and peer support experience. With about 60 minutes of self-paced instruction and practice per week, each module allows for personal reflection, interaction and discussion. There will be three additional 1-hour live online interactive group events during the course.
Participants complete hands-on learning practices to begin shifting a personally selected self-limiting behavior that may be impeding some aspect of reaching desired success.
On-demand lecture content and self-paced exercises are enhanced by online Q&A and interaction with a live instructor and fellow participants.
Exercises provide cohort participants the opportunity to practice new principles together before taking them back to the workplace. Accountability partners also help each other integrate new practices into their lives.
Target Outcomes
Identify and Begin Shifting One Self-Limiting Behavior (SLB):
Apply self-coaching techniques to a self-selected, self-limiting behavior. This brings the concepts and techniques to life via practical hands-on experience.
Improve Attention Management:
Utilizing increased control over your attention, cultivate the ability to focus when needed and, perhaps more importantly, to notice when it has “wandered off” and needs to be “brought back.”
Increase Emotional Intelligence (Self-Awareness and Empathy):
By paying more focused attention to one’s own internal state, self-awareness will expand. Becoming more self-aware of behaviors, stories, and feelings, empathy for the perspectives and feelings of others is also likely to increase. Practicing self-compassion often leads to more compassion with others.
Enhance Interpersonal Relationships:
Understand how mental stories can negatively impact relationships to nurture and manage relationships with more awareness and objectivity.
Improve Decision Making:
Learn to make conscious/aware decisions in the moment and not succumb to habitual/reflexive responses. Note the old adage that, “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you respond.”
Improve the Ability to Coach Others:
Learn self-coaching skills to not only share those techniques with others, but also to be more fully self-aware, live by example and be more articulate in coaching others.
Improve the Ability to be Coached:
Develop a mindset and framework for requesting and being open to feedback and coaching.
“We are positioning CYSU as an innovative foundational component of our approach to Career Development. What could be more helpful to any employee than learning to see where their behaviors are getting in their way and giving them tools to address that?” ~ Rich Jacquet, CHRO, Gigamon
Self-Awareness is Key
The focus is on three areas: our attention (or lack thereof), our self-limiting behaviors, and the stories we tell ourselves that shape our experiences.
Psychology & Science
The methods are built upon strong foundations of psychology, neuroscience (most notably our brain’s malleability), and behavioral science.
Powerful in its Simplicity
A simple three-step framework called ‘The Self-Coaching Path’ can be utilized by participants for the rest of their lives.
Program Details
The course unfolds over six weeks, as outlined below.
- Orientation: Welcome to Coach Your Self Up
- Week 1: Self-Coaching – Bend Your Future!
- Week 2: Your Superpower for Life and SLBs
- Week 3: Learning Practices
- Week 4: Presence and Freedom from Stories
- Week 5: Learning Practices
- Week 6: Courage to Challenge Your “Deep Stories”
Course Instructor
While advancing to management on an engineering career path, Mike discovered a passion for his own personal growth journey and that of others. He became a Learning & Development professional and ran the global L&D function at eBay for five years and then at ServiceSource for another five years.
After a 25-year corporate career, Mike launched his own executive coaching and leadership training company, The Unlimit Group, in 2012. He led the first Coach Your Self Up program in 2014. He published a book by the same title in 2018. Teaching and coaching on this subject matter is much more than a business to Mike, it’s very much the realization of his true passion.
Mike is also an active member of the executive coaching cadres at Skyline Group International, Lee Hecht Harrison, and Sidekick.
Mike earned his coaching certification from The Hudson Institute of Coaching, and he is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a BS in Electrical Engineering.
Learn more about Mike and The Unlimit Group at CoachYourSelfup.com
Mike Normant
Frequently Asked Questions
Will the live conference calls be recorded?
All of the live video events will be recorded (audio only). If you miss a live event, you may listen to an audio recording online at your convenience.
Will I have access to the course after it has ended?
Yes, you will have eight weeks following the course completion date to review all content, take notes, engage with your classmates in the forum, and download handouts and audio files that you may have missed.
What if I’m new to online learning?
Our helpdesk team will be here to help walk you through the classroom and assist you with any technical questions you may have. You will be comfortable with the classroom in no time.
I have a busy schedule, what if I fall behind?
This course has been crafted with active schedules in mind. The self-led portion is available 24/7 for you to access at your own pace and schedule within the course presentation timeframe.
How much time does the course take each week?
We estimate that it takes approximately 60-90 minutes a week to participate fully in the self-paced, on-demand components of the course. Additionally, there will be three one-hour live video conference sessions. You will also be given the opportunity to optionally meet and practice with classmate “accountability partners.”
Will I have direct access to the faculty?
Yes. At multiple intervals during the course, there are live class video calls and you are invited to participate in the group exercises and Q&A/discussion there. Additionally, the faculty will participate in forum and chat conversations with you and your fellow classmates.
Will I have interaction opportunities with fellow participants?
Yes. Course participants are encouraged to comment on each other’s postings in an online forum, and it’s recommended to practice the methods taught with study partners. Online messaging tools enable private and group communications between faculty and participants.
Participants are also encouraged to identify two other participants to form a small accountability team to increase success in applying the self-coaching techniques.
Can I earn Continuing Education Units?
This course does not offer a continuing education credit option at this time.
