Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff

Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff

When you hear the word ‘coaching’, what exactly does it conjure up?

In a business context, does it bring together thoughts of some stuffy, retired ex-bank manager, telling you not to lease that car, to buy that printer or meet that potential client?

Or does it make you picture some “Transatlantic ‘guru’”, who will take your hard-earned, tell you to subscribe to their ‘life-affirming’ blog, offer you a downloadable ‘performance optimisation’ course and tell you it’s your own fault when you don’t gain any more paying clients?

Well, the news is, it should be neither of these.

In fact, coaching should be what you want it to be. It should be non-directed, so that you, the recipient, gain the maximum sustainable benefit. In other words, you feel that you have embarked on and travelled on that journey yourself. That’s the way you actually receive a genuine, meaningful, lasting effect.

Think of it this way – if someone tells you that you MUST do something, you would either refuse point blank (rebelling against their self-aggrandising authority), or comply (solely for a quiet life, but without taking on board the reasoning).

Either way is wrong.

What a successful coach needs to achieve is this, quite simply: a facilitation of the change that the business or person needs. Nothing more, nothing less.

The coach should assist the person to come to their own conclusions and generate their own way of getting there. He or she should only interject if that helps the client achieve that goal more swiftly and effectively. After all, the client’s needs are paramount – not some standardised framework, masquerading as a coaching ethos.

This explains my view of coaching , but the only way to find out what it really means is to try it . To do that have a chat with me - 07876173444