5 benefits of using Coaching cards in decision making

What are the coaching cards?

It’s a set of hard paper cards with photos and/or text, with the purpose to help someone explore or express more profound thoughts and emotions associated with any given theme.

5 benefits of using Coaching cards in the decision-making process

1 – They can help you add value to the question.
Sometimes the challenge is not in finding the right answer, but in asking the right question. Adding value to the definition of the challenge might help you find a more profound response to it.
2 – The cards can increase the quality of your brainstorming and ideation process.
Because using cards overrides your rational brain they can help you get authentic association that might lead to unique solutions
3 – They help you reach your deeper thoughts and knowledge while keeping your mind in safe mode.
Your more profound thought, emotion and intuitive understanding are already there, influencing your decision. Using cards is a very soft way to get in touch with them
4 – Cards offer inspiration in the moments of feeling blocked.
Regardless of if you consider yourself and your field of work creative or not creative, decision making is often a creative process.
The primary challenge of all creative processes is the moment before a breakthrough, the point where you feel blocked as you’ll never get to the other side. This feeling might be so unpleasant that many people make a U-turn at that point and take the step back, depriving themselves of more significant success.
Using the cards can help you choose the right word and shape to undefinable, and bridge over the feeling of blocked thought process.
5 – The cards can increase the quality of a team or group communication.
If you are familiar with misunderstanding based on diversity of expression about the same thoughts, you know how long it might take to find the universal language.
Cards can help you get to that point faster, with the feeling of joy and curiosity.

So where can you find a set of Coaching cards?

It might not be so easy to find the appropriate set of cards. When googling, you might discover several cute therapeutical cards that are not so appropriate for business challenges.
Spiritual cards are also there, but also not so helpful in solving practical business challenges.
Some cards ask for extra skills that you don’t have time or interest to acquire.

Being an architect, art therapy practitioner, design thinker and business coach I tend to use creative tools in my work, I found out that a simple and inspiring set of coaching cards is acceptable to most of the people and suitable to most of the fields of business.
I faced the challenge of finding the “right” set of cards that I could recommend to my clients, but didn’t find the suitable one – some were not appropriate, some were too expensive, and all of them asked for extra engagement (time, effort) that my client just couldn’t afford, because they were busy working on their business.

So I decided to make a set of cards myself – and anyone who books a free Strategy call gets them as PDF file that can be printed out at any home printer and easily cut to cards.
These free cards are medium sized – a bit larger than a business card.
In this way, all of my clients get nice, simple and usable Coaching cards set before the session, and we might use it when working together.
If interested, you can book your free Strategy call here>>>

My paying clients get the PDF file XL-sized cards (each card is A5 size).

I recommend printing any card set on hard white paper (200-300gram) with a matte surface.