The Inner Game:
Know Yourself Before You Coach
Explore the chapter, practise your reactions in a branching management simulation, and produce a 5G self-awareness development report. Suggested time: 30–45 minutes. Responses are stored only in this browser unless you export them.
Explore the inner game
Work through nine practical lessons adapted from the structure and concepts of Chapter 2. Record what each idea means for your management practice.
Chapter knowledge check
The pre-conversation mirror
The chapter asks coaches to notice what they bring into a conversation. Before you meet the employee, use this short check-in. No one else sees the entry unless you share your report.
Chapter link: §§2.1–2.5 and §2.11. These notes are prompts for reflection, not a psychological evaluation.
The difficult one-to-one
You are the operations director. Jordan, an experienced project manager, has missed an important milestone. In your last meeting, Jordan questioned your priorities in front of senior colleagues. You have a reputation for decisive action and privately value independence. Your job is to coach while recognising your own internal responses.
Points reflect the quality of decisions in this educational scenario, not an objective assessment of the manager.
5G self-awareness diagnostic
Rate your usual behaviour over the last month, not your ideal behaviour. Scores are your own self-report and should be checked against feedback from others.
Turning insight into behaviour
Your 5G Inner Game Analysis
A developmental reflection based on your own responses and the choices made in a hypothetical scenario. It is not a validated psychological instrument, a clinical test or a measure of employee performance.