If you're contemplating using a coach, particularly a developmental coach, here are some ways that the right coach can be beneficial for you and your business:
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Focused: Good coaches always focus on you and your goals. They place the spotlight on you and your results, not on themselves.
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Revelatory: Good coaching helps to reveal and release your potential. You learn to uncover your deepest desires, identify your strengths, and unmask the constraints that previously held you back. This places you in a position to take the right action to achieve your goals.
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Authentic: Good coaches check their egos at the door and are simply “themselves;” your coaching sessions flow effortlessly, and create great value for you.
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Empowering: Authentic, focused coaching creates a safe space for you to E X P A N D. When an atmosphere of safety and trust are established, your creativity is unlocked, possibilities are discovered, and movement is initiated. Good coaching is centered on empowering rather then impressing.
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Responsive: Effective coaching involves listening and responding to you, not “advising” or “fixing” you. Dynamic inquiry is used as a powerful tool for unlocking the power that is within you.
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Synergistic: You and the coach achieve more significant results by working together than alone.
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Experiential: As you immerse yourself in the experience, creative energy is released and the results are transformative. Your results last because they are built on a strong foundation, which is the basis of developmental coaching.
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Mutually Beneficial: Successful coaching unleashes your creative energy that creates value for both you and the coach.
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Transformational: Coaching is not simply about improving situations, it’s about transforming people. Coaching does not simply help you solve problems; it transforms the way you solve them.
To summarize, effective coaching is ALL about you and your results.