Coaching is a collaborative process where a trained professional, known as a coach, assists individuals or groups in achieving specific goals, enhancing performance, and unlocking their potential.
How to be a Responsible Coach
Coaching
Assuming the Responsibilities that come with Being a Coach
Who can forget the famous line of Peter Parker (Spidermans grandfather)? He said, With great
power comes great responsibility.
Society expects Spiderman a comic book, TV and movie superhero with extraordinary powers to
be responsible for saving his town and the world from the forces of Evil. And he never let us
down. Despite the temptations of owning such powers, he uses his abilities only for the good of
the people around him.
Being a coach has similar parallels. They dont have superhuman powers such as x-ray vision or
flying through the air with magic sticky ropes. But great coaches can have real power through
their abilities to help others and with it, the responsibility to guide others towards success. This
is REAL power that can be used to help real people in THIS world. Done well, coaches can help
others turn around their lives. Done wrong, and a coach could guide a client down the wrong
path.
So, with this power to coach your clients towards manifesting their personal and/or business
vision comes responsibilities. Great coaches assume them all as part of the professional
responsibility. This can include everything from making sure your client is moving in the right
direction, getting them back on course when they are not, and developing and tracking their use
of exercises to help them along the way.
There are a few things you can do to be a more responsible coach. Just as important, these same
skills can be imparted to your clients to help them lead more responsible, integrity-filled lives.
How to Bring out the more Responsible You in Yourself and your Client
#1 – Develop self-awareness.
Learn and know your own strengths and weaknesses to be able to view your behavior
objectively. Recognize your shortcomings, receive feedback, and make changes when necessary.
The more self-aware you become of all your aspects, the more you will know what kind of clients
you can coach best and just as important those best referred to others.
Dr. Gerard Bell, business consultant and professor at the University of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill, advises us on how to expand our self-knowledge. He said, Study yourself closely and
practice self-assessment techniques to learn how you behave, and the effects you have on
others. As others for their option, feedback, and suggestions to become a better coach.
The lesson is simple: the more we grow, the more we can offer, and the more we can help
others.
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