Your client lacks self-belief in goal-setting. How can you guide them to achieve success?

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When a client struggles with self-belief in goal-setting, guiding them starts with helping them understand their core values. These values serve as a personal compass, directing them toward goals that are not only meaningful but also deeply motivating. In the framework of motivational interviewing, exploring and clarifying these values is a powerful tool. It helps clients connect with what truly matters to them, whether it's family, career advancement, health, or personal growth. When a client articulates these values, they gain clarity and insight into why certain goals are important. This alignment with their core beliefs and priorities makes goals feel more attainable because they resonate on a personal level.

Getting to the root of a client’s “core belief” system is essential! Understanding and working through how one feels about themselves. Bottom line, if self esteem is severely impacted and if the ideology is “I am not good enough/ I am not worthy” and working through all of that baggage is essential. Which means what in the past and present holds them back to set up a successful positive outlook for the future. Reframing and restructuring those negative thoughts. Working on small strides SMART goals to build a positive self worth

When clients struggle with self-belief in goal-setting, connecting their aspirations to core values can make all the difference. Motivational interviewing leverages value exploration as a powerful tool. Encourage clients to identify what truly drives them—family, career, health, or personal growth. By aligning goals with their values, goals become more meaningful and attainable. This approach transforms self-doubt into self-belief, empowering clients to pursue success with confidence. #MotivationalInterviewing #ExploringValues #CoachingSuccess #GoalSetting

Using values clarification and exploration tools are a wonderful way to aid clients in learning about what truly matters to them. This can then be used as a point of reference when setting goals to ensure that what they are working towards is truly in alignment with what is meaningful to them.

By breaking down larger goals into smaller, more manageable tasks, the journey becomes less daunting. Each step forward, no matter how small, represents progress. Encourage your client to be as specific as possible when defining their goals. This specificity not only makes the goals more tangible but also allows for easier tracking of progress. Celebrating these small victories along the way is vital, as it reinforces their ability to succeed, gradually building the self-belief necessary to pursue and achieve larger goals.

Making a list of what you would like to achieve, then trying to break those items down into smaller points, helps see the bigger picture in more manageable chunks. From there you can choose a limiting time, an amount of something to be done, or another goal for each smaller task. The goals should be accomplishable, so that when you have finished it, you can celebrate the success and push yourself a little bit more the next time. When you can accomplish the smaller things, a slightly bigger task feels less daunting the next time!

This is a great tool and can be even better with a visual like a gantt chart. Putting the large goa at the top of grid paper and then listing all the things that must be accomplished in a column to the left with maybe months or dates going across the top. Place the date each small goal must be achieved by in the column with the appropriate date. Use stickers to show your progress when one goal has been accomplished or have a check box. Let them make it their own. Ask questions about what the backup plans are if something unexpected should arise. What might that look like. Goals are fluid and a guide. You are not a failure if your timeline doesn’t work. What did you learn from it. Change doesn’t come easy. Sometimes we are our worst enemy.

SMART goals are mostly helpful. When we set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-based goals, clients can reach these goals easily. Furthermore, by setting smart goals, progress could be measured, and the individuals' motivation would grow by seeing this progress.

Wichtig erscheint mir an diesem Punkt zu erwähnen, dass wir als Therapeuten uns sicher sein sollten, dass wir erst die Hoffnungen und Erwartungen des Klienten erforscht haben, diese müssen dann auf konkrete Ziele reduziert werden. Fragen könnte man: Wie wünschen Sie sich, dass Ihr Leben sich verändert? Wenn die Situation besser wäre, was wäre dann besser als jetzt? Wovon wünschen Sie sich mehr und wovon weniger?

Building confidence is no small task—it requires showing customers they're on the right path. One effective approach is to regularly update them on small achievements, demonstrating their progress. Highlighting these milestones is key to guiding their journey and boosting confidence in your services and customer support team. Consistent recognition of their successes can pave the way for exponential growth.

Building confidence is a crucial element in helping your client overcome self-doubt and believe in their ability to achieve their goals. Start by guiding your client to reflect on their past achievements. These successes, whether in personal or professional life, are proof of their abilities and resilience. Help them see that they’ve already demonstrated many of the skills needed to accomplish their current goals. This reflection can serve as a powerful reminder of their strengths and potential. Additionally, encourage your client to engage in visualization exercises. This helps in effectively building confidence. This can reduce anxiety and make the actual goal-setting process feel more familiar and attainable.

As a CASAC or Peer Support Professional, person-centered goals are a natural part of the therapeutic space. While exploring the stages of change, one must be open to a participant’s ambivalence. It’s within this moment that the opportunity to effectively use MI can gently open the participants mind to the idea of something new. Point out how the client has already set and achieved goals, start with smaller everyday goals, allowing them to explore their own comfort with the larger goals.

Three words: Low. Hanging. Fruit. I generally try to guide my clients towards choosing 'goals' that don't have the intimidation factor of something big and long-term. I ask them to think of a few pain points they have or the biggest culprits they know are contributing to their dilemma and how they'd like to change them. More often than not, the things they choose are simple fixes that they know they can do - they just haven't up to that point because they hadn't thought about it (i.e. running on autopilot). Focusing on the little things first do wonders for developing self efficacy and building that confidence they need to take on bigger goals.

Vertrauen aufbauen durch reflektierendes Zuhören ist die primäre Fertigkeit auf der MI basiert und aus meiner Sicht deshalb die wichtigste Grundlage zum Aufbau von Vertrauen. Beim reflektierenden Zuhören bringen wir Therapeuten den Klinenten Interesse, Empathie und Verständnis entgegen. Wir bringen zum Ausdruck, dass wir die Klienten akzeptieren. Reflektierendes Zuhören kann man darüber hinaus nutzen, um einen Anstoß zu geben. Die aktivierte Energie lässt sich dann in eine produktive Richtung lenken.

In the context of motivational interviewing, reflective listening allows clients to hear their own motivations and reasons for change reflected back to them. This can be incredibly empowering, as it helps them recognize and articulate their own desires, strengths, and potential. Through this process, clients may begin to discover their own arguments for why they are capable of achieving their goals, thereby strengthening their self-belief. Reflective listening validates their experiences but also encourages them to engage more deeply with their own aspirations, ultimately guiding them toward a more confident and motivated mindset.

The use of effective listening can open a world of self-empowerment for participants. Reflective listening involves not just hearing what the participants are saying, but the ability to reflect back to them using empathy and understanding. Being able to reflect back sheds light to how well you are listening, making the participant feel heard, feel empowered.

When clients describe and tell their story, by reflective listening they can figure out that they are being listened and this technique could lead them to continue their story also, resistant individuals would feel more comfortable.

Reflektierendes Zuhören erfordert harte Arbeit und viel Erfahrung, die größte Herausforderung ist, auf das zu achten, was genau der Klient sagt.

I’m a big believer in drawing on clients’ strengths and helping them see how they can use said strengths to approach challenges that they are facing currently, as well as seeing how their strengths have helped them overcome challenges in the past.

By affirming their strengths, you create a supportive environment where your client feels empowered to take on new challenges. This positive reinforcement plays a key role in enhancing their self-belief, making them more confident in their ability to set and achieve meaningful goals. Through regular affirmation, you help them internalize their strengths, laying the foundation for sustained motivation and successful goal attainment.

Affirming a client’s strengths involves more than just telling them what they are capable of or good at. As clinicians, we must wholeheartedly believe in their capabilities as well. When we genuinely believe in our clients, we are more effective at empowering and uncovering even more of their strengths.

Through the use of affirming a participants strengths, as a clinician, it not only embodies the concept of active listening, but by affirming the participants ideas, thoughts, feelings or actions, they may begin to see themselves in a new light. Part of the role of a CASAC or Peer Support Professional is not to give advise and tell someone what to do, but rather use open ended questions, positive affirmations – all with an empathetic tone, to support them in their own recovery journey.

Affirmation is very important and a difficult skill to teach. We are brought up not to boast or brag about our accomplishments. So finding something they enjoy doing and feel that they are good at is a great way to have them start seeing themselves in another light. Have them reflect why they think they are good at it and restate their response. Maybe ask how this skill could help them in other parts of their lives. Ask them to reflect and write down daily 3 positive things they did Have them review the things they have written in the morning to keep the positive energy going. Ask them what gifts they have been given. Maybe a good listener maybe a good friend. Can they share their gift. How can that lead to more affirmations.