Why You Should Try Coaching
What is Coaching?
Thriving in a demanding career is like excelling as a professional athlete - you’re both playing on fields where the stakes are high and their success is increasingly determined by the smallest of margins under extreme pressure. “Both spend hours upon hours honing their technical abilities so they can perform at their best or at the next level. What separates a good athlete from a great one isn’t just their athletic or technical ability, but rather their ability to master the mental game. [Leaders and professionals] who want to play their best game also recognize that this is the key to differentiating themselves as well.” Coaching helps them do this faster and with more ease.
An executive coach partners with a client in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires the client to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership. The results can be life changing.
A study conducted by Harvard’s Institute of Coaching found that coaching produces measurable positive impacts on performance/skills well-being coping work attitudes and goal-directed self-regulation. A separate survey conducted by the International Coaching Federation showed that 80% of people who receive coaching report increased self-confidence, and over 70% benefit from improved work performance, relationships, and more effective communication skills. 86% of companies reported that they recouped their investment on coaching.
The right coach can exponentially increase the likelihood of you achieving your desired transformation. You are the expert of your career, but when you’re too close to the mirror, it’s hard to see the whole picture. A good coach will help you zoom out to get more perspective so you can find the answers that are best for you - not just tell you what to do! A good coach will also help you zoom in to appreciate the nuances of your own behavior that may be impeding your progress. Finally, a good coach will be an accountability partner to keep you on track towards the goals you know you want you achieve. Clients often say they’ve created a new outlook on life and have found renewed inspiration, courage, confidence, and answers to long-burning questions within themselves.
Coaching is Not:
Coaching is not the same thing as consulting, mentoring or therapy. A consultant in an expert that provides information (expertise, strategy, structures, methodologies) to solve your problems for you. A mentor provides subject matter expertise, wisdom and guidance based on their own experiences. Therapy deals with healing pain, trauma, dysfunction or conflict of some kind, typically with the goal of healing difficulties that impair an individual’s emotional health and psychological functioning.
By contrast, coaching focuses on facilitating individuals or groups to draw upon their own experiences and capabilities to set and reach their own objectives. The coach is the expert in the coaching process, but you are the expert on your career journey.
Working with Me:
Coaching is a powerful catalyst for professional growth, but my clients often need more tools in their toolbox. Personal and professional growth research is fundamental to my own career alignment plan (and I enjoy it!) so you can expect a bit of “consulting” from me as well. I’ll share new insights from human performance and positive psychology, along with insights from my proprietary career alignment process. A broader perspective means you’ll have more options from which to choose when curating the unique solution to address your career concerns.
If you’re ready to transform or accelerate your career, click HERE to set up a FREE 20 minute discover call to see if working together would be a good fit.
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