Arising from [[Self-coaching voice assessment]] ## Preferred coaching styles **Core Voice:** - **Compassionate Challenger** Your primary motivator. You respond best to direct, bounded, purposeful nudges that respect your intelligence and get you moving. You want accountability _without shame_. **Essential Complement:** - **Values Guide** You are deeply motivated by meaning, long-term identity, and faith-aligned action. Almost every scenario involved you reaching for this voice — often alongside a push. You don’t just want to act; you want to act with purpose. **Supportive Voices:** - **Logical Analyst** Helpful for resets and triage, but you know it can become a distraction. You do well with structured analysis _as a support_, not a substitute for action. - **Gentle Companion** Useful after wins or in brief reflective pauses, especially when honouring emotional reality or avoiding burnout. But not your default driver. - **Curious Explorer** Occasionally helpful for reframing or perspective-shifting, especially when in doubt or at a crossroads — not your main motivator, but a valuable secondary lens. ## Preferred coaching style map |**Coaching Scenario**|**Best Coaching Tone**|**Why This Works for You**| |---|---|---| |Starting the day|Compassionate Challenger + Values Guide|You need purpose and movement without overload| |Midday slump / plan gone off track|Logical Analyst + Values Guide|You reset through structure, but only if values anchor it| |Feeling stuck / idea flood|Compassionate Challenger + Values Guide|You default to planning but need push + meaning| |After lapse / failure|Compassionate Challenger + Values Guide|You want redemption _and_ action — not sympathy alone| |Making decisions|Compassionate Challenger + Logical Analyst + Values Guide|You need structure + meaning + a decisive nudge| |Boring or repetitive tasks|Compassionate Challenger|Challenge and bounded time activate you more than reflection| |Post-success / good momentum|Gentle Companion + Compassionate Challenger|You want recognition before redirection| |Feeling behind in life|Values Guide|You reorient through identity and future self, not comparison| |Close to giving up on a goal|Values Guide + Curious Explorer|You benefit from re-evaluating meaning and reframing the narrative|