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Daniel Adanri Student (Other), United Kingdom
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The Impact of Personal Coaching
Personal career coaching is akin to having a skilled navigator on a journey towards professional fulfillment. A coach serves as a GUIDING LIGHT, illuminating the path, and providing valuable insights and strategies that empower individuals being coached to navigate challenges, capitalize on opportunities, and unlock their full potential.
Through personal coaching, individuals gain a deeper understanding of themselves, their strengths, and areas for improvement. This self-awareness becomes a cornerstone for career development as it allows individuals to ALIGN THEIR GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS with their unique talents, values, and passions. With this newfound clarity, individuals can make informed decisions, set meaningful objectives, and chart a course towards a fulfilling and successful career.
Moreover, personal coaching goes beyond mere goal-setting; it delves into the realm of MINDSET AND BELIEF SYSTEMS. Coaches help individuals challenge self-limiting beliefs, overcome fears and insecurities, and cultivate a positive and resilient mindset. This shift in thinking enables individuals to tap into their full potential, embrace challenges as growth opportunities, and persist in the face of adversity.
The ACCOUNTABILITY aspect of personal coaching also plays a crucial role in career growth and success. Coaches hold individuals accountable for their actions, commitments, and progress. This level of accountability fosters discipline, consistency, and a sense of ownership over one's professional development. It ensures that individuals stay focused, motivated, and on track towards their desired outcomes, even when faced with distractions or setbacks.
In addition to personal growth, coaching can also ENHANCE INTERPERSONAL SKILLS and leadership abilities. Coaches provide feedback, guidance, and practical tools for effective communication, collaboration, and relationship-building. These skills are invaluable in today's interconnected and team-oriented work environments, enabling individuals to forge strong professional relationships, influence others positively, and navigate complex organizational dynamics.
Furthermore, personal coaching offers a SAFE AND CONFIDENTIAL SPACE for individuals to explore their fears, doubts, and uncertainties. It encourages self-reflection, introspection, and the exploration of alternative perspectives. This process of self-discovery enables individuals to break free from limiting patterns, overcome obstacles, and develop resilience in the face of adversity.
Ultimately, the IMPACT OF PERSONAL COACHING on career growth and success lies in its ability to unlock hidden potential, optimize performance, and ignite a transformative journey of professional development. It empowers individuals to not only achieve their goals but also to cultivate a sense of purpose, fulfillment, and lifelong learning. Through the guidance and support of a skilled coach, individuals can embark on a path towards meaningful career growth, realizing their aspirations, and making a lasting impact in their chosen fields.
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Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar India
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Coaching is Vital to Today's Education System To change the behaviour of a coachee (person being coached) is a challenging task. To educate and have the right transformation happen in individuals with their tendencies lurking at different layers of human personality requires the coach, like a lightened candle, to show the way. Also the coach will need to work on and refine the tendencies lurking at physical, intellectual, emotional (positive and negative), conscious, subconscious, guidance layers of the coachee's personality.
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kayode Fayemi Entrepreneur, Nigeria
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Coaching, an Important Tool Coaching is a form of development in which an experienced person, called a coach, supports a learner called a coachee in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training and guidance. Coaching is a vital tool in development of skills.
Awareness, self-belief and responsibility are vital ingredients that enhance coaching. As important as it is to realize things, it's also important to believe in ourselves and assume the responsibilities that lead to the desired change.
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Gregory Johnson Coach, United States
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Coaching - the Golden Thread This is an EXCELLENT overview of the Coaching enterprise. For Career Coaching, Leadership Coaching, Executive Coaching, OD Coaching and more. Stimulating presentation prompting my out of the box geek resource thinking. My first thought was Thomas Leonard was a pioneer of the American Coaching platform. I immediately turned to what I consider the best assessment resources for this work by Human Synergistics, which I am certified to administer the LSI.
It is perfect and presented the best narrative I have experienced in many years.
Thank you.
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Maurice Hogarth Consultant, United Kingdom
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Careful with 'Coaching' and Terminology Confusion I agree with the concept of "career coach" and am in total agreement with much of the opening posting in terms of the what and why. However, I have concerns with the points relating to the how as being inappropriate to (from my understanding) the nature of COACHING and so may cause some confusion.
Specifically the terms "skilled navigator ... GUIDING LIGHT... professional fulfillment, providing insights and strategies" may be seen to indicate that the coach knows better than the coachee where the coachee should be going: what is the 'correct' destination and route for them.
But that is counter to, from my understanding and belief, the nature and role of a coach. The description seems more suitable to a mentor and even here the idea that someone knows better than you what route you should be taking to get to where, in their opinion, you should be going seems inappropriate.
I also have concerns with the points that "Coaches provide feedback, guidance, and practical tools for..."
I would say no they do not.
Feedback of its nature is judgemental and the whole essence of coaching is that it is not judgemental. Any 'feedback' to or judgement of the coachee MUST come from the coachee, from their consideration of their answers to questions and their behaviours.
"Feedback" comes from colleagues, line-seniors, mentors and trainers; while providing "... practical tools for ..." is the role of the "trainer", not the coach.
The role of the coach is to ask questions. Questions designed to PROBE, ASSIST, SUPPORT, ENABLE the coachee to think, to consider, delve, commit, act, reflect, develop etc. with the purpose of doing and achieving what the other points of the posting outline.
If the coach is to replace their 'coaching cap' with that of trainer, mentor or line-manager then it is ESSENTIAL that the individual knows, understands and accepts which cap is being worn at the time in order to avoid any confusion.
See also this extensive comparison of the differences in roles of managers, coaches and mentors.
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Judith Santizo Consultant, Guatemala
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Careful with Term 'Coaching' I have read the different expositions on the role of a coach and it seems to me that I share the criteria that Maurice Hogarth exposes. Wether a coach, mentor, trainer or whatever you want to call him...
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kayode Fayemi Entrepreneur, Nigeria
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Coaching Requires a Targeted Group I totally share the view of Judith Santizo in that there must be a targeted group in which effort is directed towards with the absolute knowledge of the peculiarity of such group. A coaching effort ge...
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Jaap de Jonge Editor, Netherlands
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Impact of Personal Coaching is Massively Underestimated by Young People Personal coaching can be especially useful for people who are stuck somewhere or who are still at the beginning of their career. Unfortunately, at this stage in their lives, many of the latter are eag...
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kayode Fayemi Entrepreneur, Nigeria
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Impact of Coaching can be Big Coaching has a powerful, positive impact on self -confidence, wellness, and work performance. When a manager receives professional coaching, their team members also benefit from the mentoring, leaders...
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Jayaraman
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Coaching is Creating Accountability Through Trust Coaching is a wonderful system to create personal accountability for a coachee. Through continuous collaboration and communication, the foundation of trust, the coachee's self-belief factor takes deep...
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Rob Thompson Coach, United Kingdom
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Two-way Impact of Coaching Whilst I agree with Maurice above on the nature of coaching - one of the issues is still around the multiple definitions of coaching. Some define coaching in terms that I would call mentoring, some me...
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kayode Fayemi Entrepreneur, Nigeria
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Positive Impact of Coaching Coaching is shown to have a powerful, positive impact on self-confidence, wellness, and work performance. When a manager receives professional coaching, their team members also benefit from the mentor...
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