| What can a coach be to
you: A listener
A coach hears what the client is
saying and what he is not saying. By asking,
questioning, searching for clarity, your story
will get clear to the coach and to you.
Open minded listener
No biases, judgments, shoulds,
coulds.
A teacher
A coach will share with you what
he knows and how he feels.
Someone who is totally there
for you
A coach is almost a fan of his
client. He enjoys who and what you are (including
their upsides and downsides). Enjoys your
strengths and qualities, faults and foibles.
Enjoys your missed opportunities. You are able to
take more risks and move forward further and more
quickly because you know your coach is totally
there for you. That makes coaching
collaborative and light, not heavy.
You will be championed
It is more than encouragement.
Your coach will champion you at all levels (your
actions, progress, dreams, traits, commitments,
gifts and qualities). And this will help you to
succeed.
Observer that shares with you
what is there
A coach will share with you what
he sees, feels and hears. Clients rely on the
observations, intuition and even the inklings of
a coach to help move them forward in
life. It's often the tiniest, most subtle
inklings that can act as powerful beacons and
catalysts to the client's life or business.
Reveal You to yourselve
The more aware anyone is, the
better choices they can make for
themselves. Part of what a coach does with
clients is to help them discover their gifts,
talents, wants, values, needs and dreams, as well
as come to understand what what motivates and
inspires them. The result? A well-informed
client, quickly moving forward on their path of
self-awareness.
Elicit greatness
While it is true that few clients
come to a coach and specifically ask that we
bring out and develop this greatness, this is
what a coach does when he asks the client to
think and act bigger, and by challenging the
client to continually raise their own bar and
standards.
Expand your efforts.
One of the reasons clients hire a
coach is to support them to do more in a shorter
period of time than they would do on their
own. And they are right. A coach acts as
both a catalyst and accelerant. By
supporting you to do more than you have done or
think that you are capable of doing, significant
value is added.
Help you recognize the perfect
good reason in every situation
One way of looking at life is to
believe that everything happens for a perfectly
good reason, even if we cannot always see or know
what that reason is, within our own
lifetime. But to look for that reason, to
recognize and understand it, you can come over it
and move on. A coach helps you identify the
Greater Truth of the situation, the perfection in
an event, problem, situation or trait.
Help you focus on what is most
important
What is most important to you is
not allways clear in our lives full of demands
and opportunities. And it changes during your
life. A coach helps you focus on what is
most important, not just most urgent.
Enter new territories
Your coach will expand your
thinking. Bring to you new concepts, principles
and distinctions and also invites you to
experiment with new models, ways of doing things,
and even to identify new goals or outcomes.
Open to truths
A coach will be open and enjoy
truth. About the client's abilities and
limitations. About the coaching style/paradigm.
Help you design supportive
environments
Success, not to mention personal
evolution, becomes sustainable when there are
environments and failsafe structures that support
it. After all, who wants to rely on
fortitude and willpower to get things done or to
develop oneself? The coach will help the
client to design and install, enhance or repair
these environments.
Success without stress
We all have limits, both internal
and external, and as much as coaching is about
maximizing potential and opportunities, we are
all human and the coach respects
this. Success without stress is what we are
all after and by recognizing limits and
appreciating different paths to achievement, you
as a client are both individually and universally
respected.
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