What is Coaching Really All About?

These days, the word ‘coaching’ has become an abused term.

In my experience, this has happened because of a perception, strongly encouraged by the personal and professional development industry, that coaching is there to “fix” or to “bridge the gap” between where we are today and where we want to be.

Many of you have experienced coaching in one shape or another and have formed your own views on the concept.

My opinion about coaching is very different.

It is about:
·         Understanding and releasing aspirations to reality
·         Building capability
·         Creating / producing results

Another way to view coaching is that it is about continuously expanding your personal capacity to grow, learn and perform.

In a previous newsletter, I wrote about how “it’s always hard before it gets easy.”

Coaching is the tool that assists in making it easy to master the hard – not to remove the hard. This is why we have teachers and coaches in business, education, the arts and sport.... in fact everywhere. We just don’t always call them coaches.

A great example is Toastmasters – where you can learn to speak in public and are given coaching in the form of an evaluation.....and it’s not called coaching.

The Phils_osophy

Allow yourself to be open to coaching moments when they occur; they provide insight and the real opportunity to reflect, learn and expand your personal capacity.

Enjoy those moments ..even later when you have the realisation ...because it is a WOW moment when we get it !

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To your continued success….

Phil