Sections:
1. Introduction (below) 2. The Progress Coaching Questions & Review 3. The Lights of Coaching 4. Resources Section
What is Coaching? First and foremost, coaching is a conversation. Coaching’s main objective is to help someone improve. The area of improvement does not necessarily have to be something they’re doing wrong but could also leverage the strengths they want to improve or an aspiration or motivation they’d like to pursue. In addition to coaching as a conversation, there are two simple components that make successful conversations a reality: • Asking questions to truly listen and be present without interruption or disruption. • Be in a state of true listening without interruption so the coach can gain clarity while the person(s) being coached can develop self-awareness through the delivery of questions. As simple as this sounds, how often are we as human beings not listening, or we’re distracted or thinking about what we want to say when someone is talking to us? In addition, most people dismiss feedback based on agreement or disagreement. Most people who enter the workforce after high school and college, which represent anywhere from 4 to 10 years, almost all these individuals have never attended a course on how to seek and accept feedback openly and thoughtfully. The workplace inherits these behaviors and roadblocks that cultivate people’s lack of self-awareness and willingness to truly look in the mirror and seek improvement. Coaching is a relationship between a person who’s doing the coaching and the person who’s being coached. It is a cooperative effort to move in a direction together to facilitate self- awareness and actions that drive improvement to a specific situation(s). Mistakes Leaders Make Trying to Coach Often people will provide feedback as a mechanism without questions and later call it ‘coaching’ which can be a huge assumption in terms of its positive impact. Most people avoid feedback, especially when it’s constructive. That’s why coaching filled with questions is a more powerful combination. Next, leaders who coach must be present and in a positive state, refraining from having negative emotional responses such as folding arms or rolling eyes, which can have an impact on the person(s) being coached. Everyone has a different coaching style, from humor, to being laid back, or more direct.
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