MASTER Risk Model - Learning Resources - Mindset

Cognitive Adaptability

Read an article that challenges your consulting method, summarize its strongest point in one sentence.

Pause and ask: “What’s another lens here?” when evaluating a client’s challenge.

Change one coaching habit today, alter the order, pace, or tool you normally use.

Read from a field outside coaching, note one idea to apply in your work.

Challenge a default choice in your routine, pick the opposite to stretch flexibility.

Use the phrase: “That’s interesting, tell me more” when a client challenges you.

Emotional Adaptability

When emotions rise with a client, pause and name the feeling, labeling it reduces its hold on you.

Use a grounding question in stress: “What emotion am I feeling, and is it serving this moment?”

Replace one reactive email with a calmer draft, pause before pressing send.

Repeat the phrase “I choose my response” before entering a tense conversation.

Take a breath and smile before replying to frustrating feedback, reset your tone.

Scan your body when stressed, note where tension sits and breathe into it.

Behavioral Adaptability

In your next session, shift your style, if you usually lead, listen more; if quiet, share more.

Adjust your coaching flow today, change sequence or method, and note the client’s response.

Choose to observe one client meeting fully before speaking, adapt to their rhythm first.

Say yes to something you’d normally decline, test a new response and record results.

Try a new coaching approach today, ask more questions if you usually advise, or vice versa.

Work in a new environment today, observe how it shifts your energy and focus.

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