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How to pick the right coach for you |
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Monday, 10 August 2009 10:09 |
The right coach can help you achieve your personal and professional goals, improving performance, communication and understanding, helping balance priorities and identifying areas for personal and professional development. The coach must be aware of your personal and professional needs and be able to make a significant contribution without taking control.
The right coach will:
• Have skills relevant to you and your business. This may include factors such as training or previous employment experience.
• Give you confidence in their abilities and experience.
• Have a philosophy and training methods that are compatible with your needs, and be prepared to discuss these with you.
• Discuss the methods and activities that are likely to be used during the course of a coaching programme.
• Engage you in dialogue, look at the issues with you and ultimately let you decide what’s best.
• Provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that you already have. Coaches will look for solutions from their clients, but a skilled coach knows when to direct you, providing focus and structure if you get off track.
• Provide testimonials and referrals from other clients.
Once you are satisfied that the coach has what you are looking for, you need to:
• Make sure you have a great rapport with your coach.
• Trust your instincts when deciding if the coach genuinely understands who you are and what you need.
• Make sure you can trust the coach with certain details of your life, and that they will not judge you.
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Goal setting, results getting |
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Monday, 10 August 2009 09:47 |
Coaching assists with planning and goal setting to get the results you want. Goal setting provides structure and focus to improve performance and achieve success.
• A good goal is one that you believe is worthwhile achieving.
• You must believe that it is possible for you to achieve the goal or you will not be motivated to try.
• Combine several easy goals and at least one challenging goal. The easy goals build good habits by achieving quick results and rewards. The challenging goals help you to grow.
• Limit the number of goals you're working on to a manageable number, somewhere between 5 and 10 goals. Keeping the number of goals down allows you to accomplish a few of them quickly, but not at the expense of your health or personal relationships.
• Almost any goal can be made easier by breaking it down into several smaller goals, to be tackled one at a time.
• List all the relevant obstacles and the tasks needed to overcome them.
• Decide which of your goals are most important, but be flexible. Even when one goal is clearly more important than another, timing sometimes means that the less important goals take precedence. In this case, the important thing is not to prioritize the goal, but to prioritize what you're going to do right now.
• Evaluate why you want to achieve each goal. This can lead to insights and personal discovery. Know what you are doing and know why you are doing it. The more fully you understand why you want something, the more motivated you will be to keep working at it until you have accomplished it.
• Ask for help and encouragement from supportive family members and friends.
• Don't stop, even if you get distracted or discouraged. Just get back on track and keep moving forward. The surest way to success is to keep on going.
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