Why see a coach?
If you want to improve your golf swing, you might seek out a sporting coach. If you want greater flexibility or core strength, you’ll likely turn to a yoga or pilates coach. But who do you turn to when you want to improve yourself and reach your goals? A coach.
People see life and organisational coaches for a variety of reasons. Perhaps you’re at a crossroad and not sure how to proceed. Or maybe you’re facing conflict at work. You may have lost sight of your goals and what you want from life. Whatever your challenge, is a coach’s opportunity.
Here are five great reasons to see a coach:
Achieve your goals
A coach can help you to identify a list of realistic goals, that are meaningful, realistic and achievable. There’s over 20 years of goal research, that coaching psychologist’s use to help you know what you want to achieve but most importantly how you’ll achieve it.
Develop yourself
Some believe that leadership is an innate quality; we are either born with it or we’re not. Coaching dispels this myth, offering a range of techniques that allow anyone to become a leader. While leadership requires vision, direction and inspiration, management is about helping your team achieve the task at hand and usually once we reach this stage we also need to be a technical expert. Sometimes people struggle to do all this simultaneously. A coach will explore your strength and help you develop your weakness.
Get a confidence boost
Need a confidence boost? A coach will help you to determine what’s undermining your confidence at work or in your personal life, then help you to deal with those issues. Certain techniques can be employed to boost your confidence, which will improve your capacity to deal with conflict and manage change.
Manage stress
A coach will talk to you about stressful areas of your life and help you solve ways to manage these issues. After your session, you’ll be able to confront difficulties and be more assertive. You coach might also recommend other ways to manage your stress levels, like diet, exercise and relaxation activities.
Improve relationships with others
What’s your relationship like with others? Do you have the best possible working relationship with the people you work with? Coaching will help you understand how you relate with others, what your typical conflict style and how you work in team. It will then use this information to discover what can be improved and work with you to improve that.
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