Coaching

JUST COACH IT

The orthodox definition of success has changed as our society has evolved from agrarian to industrial then into knowledge-based. The heart of true success is a sense of personal satisfaction and accomplishment that is nourished and grows with purpose, training, vision, and action.

What is Coaching Like?

Coaching is a courageous adventure, a magical synergy between client and coach. It is a labor of love and acceptance that takes coach and client into a special place of purpose, passion and action. Excellent coaching is far more than moving a client along a path of personal and professional strategies and accomplishment of goals. It is a co-collaboration of client and coach, an ongoing dialogue of non-judgment, acceptance and freedom which illuminates the client’s true brilliance and true purpose. There are often coaching groups where one can go for support and therapy. These groups often link you with a peer. Sometimes peer coaching can be very successful. There is a certain authenticity and connection humans feel when there are issue to relate to.

Coaching is engaging, passionate purposeful work that allows you to see clients grow and gain in many different areas of their lives and careers. Coaching touches all aspects of work and existence. Coaching is a journey of courage, excitement and challenge that is full of twists and turns, of known and unknown. Coaching is a reflection and expression of all that our client truly wants and needs to be.

As clients begin to flex their success muscles, to stretch out of the comfort zone, they move into a place that speaks loudly to who they truly are and what they truly want… magic happens. The magic starts when they begin to speak to translating their knowledge and truth into passion, vision and action. Coaching requires that each part of our life, each dimension of our value system work in combination to great a successful, satisfactory whole.

What you need to do Coaching?

Excellent Coaching requires the right combination of education and life experience that has given the Coach a broad experience with personal success and also failure. With Coaching you need to have achieved success and to have experienced failure in order to help a client reach his/her apex of personal and professional excellence and satisfaction. Coaching requires individuals who are not only trained in coaching, but work with mind and heart aligned to excavate the true seedbed of a client’s success through a journey of trial, error and accomplishment.

Excellent coaching requires that the coach remove his or her perspective of success in order to truly understand the perspective of the client. The coach has to totally let go of his/her personal understanding of success in order to understand what success truly means to the client. Coaching is only through honest, confidential, safe communication that we can move clients to a place of illumination, personal growth and potential that will allow them to fulfill their destiny of choice. To do coaching one must understand that there is a special place where we let go of intellect and fuse with the special purpose of our client, to illuminate their personal and professional best, their success path. It is a dance of appreciation; a tango of acceptance and service that necessitates being able to change the tune, change the steps to meet the best purpose and passion of the client.

Success for our clients and for ourselves doing coaching is based on honestly accessing what gives and has meaning, relevance, passion and purpose for the client and in so doing to work hand in had to develop a greater personal understanding of purpose and passion and ways to translate them into effective, ongoing action and motivation.

Success coaching requires a particular ability to facilitate the client’s courage for self awareness, and his/her willingness to move past the intellectual in order to combine mind, body and soul in a path of positive transformation. Sometimes a client’s personal definition of success changes through coaching, other times clients may find that success was clearer and nearer to what they were doing than they anticipated. Some coaching sessions bring great revelation, others acceptance of the realization of patterns and actions that sabotage success.

Coaching sessions are always alive with new possibilities and can evoke the best and the worst in clients as they move past their self imposed limitations and the expectations of others to a place of true passion, purpose and action. Coaching requires the courage, commitment, confidentiality and mutual respect to move out of the comfort zone of the known in order to explore values, vision and mission.

Coaching is the juncture of honest communication, awareness, passion and purpose. Coaching is a place where the success coach can reach beyond the intellectual and the tangible to excavate and access the client’s power and purpose in order to develop new strategies and perspectives of full engagement, satisfaction and success.

The Market for Coaching

Coaching is an investment in personal awareness and accomplishment that a client must have the financial latitude and the personal commitment to engage in. The market for success coaching is enormous, and will continue to expand as we face the reality of a rapidly changing work and personal world.

I have little doubt that in due course coaching will in turn spawn off specific niches of coaching that recognize different areas of focus. Check out the International Coach Federation for further information:

http://www.coachfederation.org/ICF/

Reality tells us that we will all continue to grapple with personal, professional and societal change, and that the forward motion, the velocity of change will challenge our ability to truly reach an honest point of self awareness in order to determine what we need want and must do to attain success can best be accomplished by the co-collaborative, co-creative energy that coaching brings to the table.

The greatest most important business that any of us have is the business of our life, the realization of personal success and satisfaction.