We all have goals, dreams, concerns, and fears. We can address them or do nothing at all!
Coaching helps us find all the answers we need for ourselves! It believes in our ability to solve our own challenges…and helps us to find solutions within and seek support when needed! Coaching is non-judgmental, positive, and forward looking. Other forms of support like mentoring, counselling and therapy are all useful but serve different purposes.
Coaching helps people to articulate their goals and to prioritise them; to reflect on their realities and available options (it also pushes people for more ‘creative’ options); to choose the best option and to decide on an action plan.
The beauty of coaching is that it helps people increase awareness of their abilities, of the options available to them, of the alternatives, of their values and limiting beliefs. Coaching also increases people’s commitment to themselves and their chosen goals.
The role of the coach is to listen, to encourage (sometimes to challenge), and to ask the right questions, to ensure that the Goal is clear and the action plan is SMART. Finally, the coach ensures that the person takes responsibility of the goal and the action they chose. The coach is a facilitator not a magician, yet the process is magical. It truly transforms people’s lives.