The Play Two Win Method

24 hours of Audio and 125 page EBook

You will become better at getting results when you learn how to:

• Dramatically increase your confidence because you have a reliable method that gets results.
  
• Develop the ability to help your player craft an effective personalized game plan.
  
• Develop the ability to teach your player how to play the game better by practicing and refining the skills of the game
  
• Develop the ability to expand inner freedom through playing and facing challenges
  
• Develop the ability to create environments for sustainable results.
  
• Powerfully distinquish between work and play – and you will discover how to PLAY in the serious games of life: like business, career, family and romance.
  
• Elicit greatness using play pattern language – the natural language of the coaching craft
  
• Determine if the game your player wants to play is winnable or not
  
• Outline the activities of any life or business game and identify the game plans, skills, sources of inner resistance and environments for each one.
  

Program includes:

1. 24 hours of thought provoking audio
2. 125 Page Life-Changing Ebook
3. Recordings of 24 REAL coaching conversations with that demonstrate the method.

*The program qualifies for 30 ICF CCEU’s; 12 2.5 hour sessions

MODULE #1
Define the purpose and objectives of the game

Clarify focus on the BIG game

Coaching always begins with a desire to play a winnable game. In this part of the process the coach and player identify what the game is, why the game is being played, what winning looks like, determine if the game is winnable, assess the skills that are needed to play well and scan the environment for assets and obstacles. Whew!

The main ingredient is to make it a game worth playing; A game that is connected to what the player truly wants out of life; A game that touches the heart of the player in some way.

MODULE #2
Design the actions of the game

Identify the recurring activities of the game and the desired results

There are two essential ingredients to this step: The first is to make sure the game is winnable game in terms of the desired short term results. A winnable game is right in the sweet spot between easy and challenging. If the game is too easy it is not inspiring. If it is too hard (not winnable) then apathy sets in. The coach must continually expand the game so that the player grows in ability by stepping into bigger and bigger challenges.

Next is identifying the activities of the game and the way to earn points toward winning. Essentially you “make up a game” by assigning points to performing designated activities and achieving specific results. For example in a business game you might assign one point for meeting with a potential new customer and five points for signing a new paying client. In a loving relationship game you might assign one point for each day you remember to lovingly acknowledge something you enjoy or admire about your partner and three points for enjoying a date that both agree was fabulous.

Making up a game and then setting a standard for a number of points to be obtained in order to “win” is a highly creative process. And it is important to know that while it is made up, it is NOT arbitrary! Keeping score is essential to pursuing excellence in any game. Making a game that inspires the desire to play sets the stage for everything that follows.

MODULE #3
Play the game

Give your heart, soul and energy

AND enjoy it! Have fun.

Playing the game is what it is all about. The key is to play fair, play with gusto and be respectful of the game itself and everyone in the game. AND play to win. Playing to win means that you play with purpose; with the intention to give the very best of yourself. Playing to win means that you will do whatever it takes - within the context of fair play - to achieve the desired outcome. This way of playing always creates the best experience of playing no matter what the outcome is.

ENJOY the experience of playing. The ultimate reward for all of your effort and preparation is the experience of playing well. YES!

MODULE #4
Respond to challenges

Get the best result possible from the situation

When the game is on, there are surprises and things you don't expect. These are opportunities to make the most of situations; to make adjustments to your plan or push through difficulties in pursuit of the desired result: winning the game. Often the game can pull the player through challenges where they would normally stop.

The way your player responds to challenges will tell you a LOT about them. And it will give you a lot of important clues that you can use to help them become a better player.

MODULE #5
Evaluate progress

Learn and grow from judgment-free awareness

Playing any game well requires an ongoing process of evaluation and refinement. The coach must keep one eye on how the client is playing now, and another on where the client is going. Often the client will not see that what they are doing is not working! Celebrating wins and transforming loses into learning opportunities are at the very essence of coaching. Enjoy, celebrate and leverage victories. Debrief and quickly learn from losses by practicing judgment- free awareness. This is how coaches create long term player improvement and growth.

The essential ingredient here is to realize that there will always be wins and losses in any game. One of the BIG jobs of a coach is to transform losing experiences into learning experiences. If you lose and you are playing alone, often you feel like a loser. If you lose and you have a coach, you become a fast learner. BIG DIFFERENCE.

The method has a natural flow, but is not always linear. A method is a predictable process designed to produce consistent results. While there is a natural flow to the nine distinct steps in the process they are not necessarily linear. Typically you will use the nine steps in order when first working with a new player; Defining the game comes first and designing the game comes next and so on. But once you are really working with someone the steps can be used in any order depending on the situation.

Once the winnable game is designed, the coach and player / client delve into playing better every day.

MODULE #6
Game plan to leverage strengths

Teach the strategies of the game

Here the coach uses experience of similar situations and their ability use strategy to craft just the right action plan with the player. A strategy is a WAY of playing that uses your skills to get the best possible result. It is your approach to the game.

To create a game plan, the coach and player(s) look at the upcoming game together and collaborate to decide on the best approach.

What is the desired outcome?

How do we make best use of your current skills?

What assets and resources can we utilize?

What challenges are we likely to face and how will we respond to them?

The player now has a clear action plan with a strategic foundation which is a real gift in the age of infinite (overwhelming) possibility and endless (overwhelming) information. The player also develops an expanded capacity to think strategically for themselves.

MODULE #7
Practice the skills of the game

Create a personalized learning plan for your player

EVERY game has specific skills or techniques associated with the activities of the game. In the game of soccer one skill is kicking the ball in the direction you want it to go. With business a key skill connecting with potential customers. The coach must use their experience to design a practice plan that matches the current ability of your player / client. The purpose is to teach your player the skills of the game in a way that is appropriate to their current level of play.

Through constant practice you help your players improve their abilities and expand their capability to figure out for themselves what to do and how to do it when the game is on.

MODULE #8
Expand inner freedom

Inner Freedom IS the game

Inner Freedom effects every decision your player makes and nearly every action they take. Decisions and actions are what creates winning and losing in every game. The key to inner freedom coaching is to understand the fundamental influence of values, thoughts, beliefs, feelings, emotions and motivations to help your player achieve peak performance.

A typical way of thinking about this is to use the term blind spots. It is the nature of patterns that they become invisible to us. As a coach you are a highly informed outside observer that can see the patterns that the player has become blind too and then expand the self- awareness of the player.

The end result of all of this is a state of flow; ease and grace while playing the game. This is sort of deep and lasting growth that people play games for in the first place.

MODULE #9
Design winning environments

The environment always wins

It does not matter how inspired or motivated or skillful you are if the world around you is full of obstacles, you can not win. If your team mates are not on the same page, your best effort will not make a difference. The master coach helps the player design the world around them to inspire ongoing excellence.

The essential ingredient here is to realize that environmental design is the key to sustainable success in life and in coaching! The environment must be redesigned for the game the player is playing now. For most people the environment is a reflection of the games they used to play. Why is this? People have a two-way relationship with the world around them: they are adapting to what is there while at the same time the world around them is becoming a reflection of who they are. BIG INSIGHT: The adaptive process is fast and somewhat transient while the reflective process is slow but more substantive.

In other words, over time, the world around you becomes an accurate reflection of who you WERE are on the inside; This may or may not be good news! While in a new environment, quick change may occur, typically people return to the way they were before if they leave that new environment.

So in order to create sustainable change, the coach must use their creativity, design sense and awareness of workability to help the player make immediate changes to the outside world that reflect the changes made on the inside. Then the adaptive process works FOR positive change rather than against it! The player becomes more aware of the world around them and more connected to it. This leads to sustainable results.

The method is a framework

Use everything YOU have to help your players win

BONUS: Play Two Win Method "Playbook"

1. Complete Course Outline – Session by session
2. Fundamental Coaching Theory
3. Play Two Win (TM) Method in Detail
4. Program themes in Detail
5. What to do in a Coaching Conversation
6. How to find 5 "Practice Players"
7. Understanding the Inspiration Economy
8. Session 1: What a player expects from a Coach

TESTIMONIALS

"I have had great success using the Play Two Win method with my clients. I have found it so much easier to use than other vague
coaching concepts / techniques."
–June M. Porter

"I am very happy, relieved and pleased that there is such a simple, straight forward method for getting started in coaching. I greatly enjoyed the discussion about coaching in the spirit of play. I also enjoyed discussing the difference between work and play and agree that most people don’t have enough joy in their day to day lives. I’m excited that coaching can address this!"
–Melissa Wheeler

"I loved the discussion about the difference between project management and coaching especially using the play to win model. I assumed that coaching was helping people figure out their tasks! But now I see that it is about figuring out who they want to become! I actually used this concept with one of my clients and we both had an “ah ha” moment which lead right into a BIG next step for her."
–Amy Magyar

Coach Dave Buck is an MBA, Master Certified Coach and the CEO of CoachVille, the original global online community for Coaches with 30,000 members.

He is the author of the forthcoming book Coach!: How to thrive in a world that LOVES results. The book that re-invents Human Achievement for the 21st Century.

Coach Dave is a Master of Human Achievement. He has coached over 1,000 people including: Michael Port – Best Selling Author of "Book Yourself Solid",
Sacha Kljestans (Sasha Klesh-Jen) a US World Cup Soccer Player,
AND Many, Many High Achieving Entrepreneurs and Leaders

Coach Dave is on a quest to teach leaders how to transform from 20th Century Management Science to 21st Century Coach Approach Leadership. He coaches leaders and entrepreneurs to transform places of work into winnable games worth playing.

According to Coach Dave: "People HATE to be managed, but they LOVE to be coached. So BE a Coach!". "ANYONE can improve their quality of life by learning how to coach".

Coach Dave is a leading visionary voice of professional coaching. He collaborated with Thomas Leonard – the "Founding Father" of Professional Life-Business Coaching - to found CoachVille in 2000. Coach Dave has delivered coach training programs to thousands of professionals through his school: The Center for Coaching Mastery. He began his business-life coaching career in 1997 and has logged WELL over 10,000 hours of Coaching.

Dave is a Founding Member of the Transformational Leadership Council with Jack Canfield for leaders of the personal growth movement including Stephen MR Covey, Marci Shimoff, John Gray, Marianne Williamson and Joe Vitale.

Coach Dave was the assistant Men's soccer Coach at Seton Hall University for 14 seasons and coached many players that became professional soccer players. He has also served on the MBA Faculty for Seton Hall University Stillman School of Business. Coach Dave is a spiritual adventurer. He lived in Bolivia for two summers on a quest to LIVE the game of soccer. He traveled through Southern India with a Tamil Siddha on a quest to learn how to compress time.

Finally, Coach Dave Buck is the REAL Life Gamification Guru and creator of the REAL Life Game Platform used by CoachVille. REAL=Results Energize Authentic Living!

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