What It Really Means To Be A Coach
Coaching is an ongoing intentional conversation that empowers a person or group to fully live out their true calling.
Coaches don’t talk, they listen.
Coaches don’t give information, they ask questions.
Coaches don’t offer ideas, they generate ideas from clients.
Coaches don’t share their story, they tap into the client’s experience.
Coaches don’t present solutions, they expand the client’s thinking.
Coaches don’t give recommendations, they empower clients to choose.
The three “sets” of coaching
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Coaching Mindset
Coaching is not about coaches providing answers, it’s about drawing out answers from you, the client. This is one of many mindset shifts you will experience as you work with a coach that will help you reach your goals..
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Coaching Skill Set
Coaches use a unique set of skills such as active listening, asking powerful questions, generating feedback, and expanding awareness that creates new learning. This will help you grow, get unstuck, and live with purpose.
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Coaching Tool Set
A Coaches tool set includes tools to focus on the person and not the problem, techniques to identify and challenge limiting beliefs, and much more. These tools will you find the support you need to move forward.
What coaching is not:
Consulting
A consultant gives expert advice, while coaching empowers you to find broader and more personal solutions.
Counseling or Therapy
Counselors and therapists help bring a person into health and often focuses on the past. Instead, a coach helps you look forward and move quicker along the learning curve.
Mentoring
Mentors primarily share from personal experience to help others progress within a specified field or endeavor. Instead, coaches are process experts who help you develop unique solutions that work for your unique situation.
Coaching enables you to learn while in the process of finding answers.
This increases your development, builds your character, and helps ensure lasting change while accomplishing the outcomes you desire.