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In the coaching context, time is both a parameter and a container for reflection that spans the duration of the continuing lived experiences that is drawn to attention, a space for learning-unlearning-(re)learning, realising growth and development, and continuing developing character within a series of timed scheduled events.
What this article is about is ‘approaches to coaching’, with the big exception that you don’t have to part with any money. On the other hand, you may have to pay in another currency; the effort of hard thinking and coming up with your own answers. I hope that is an acceptable compromise. I explored in part 1 the various approaches a coach can learn their craft and journey so far, and in part 2, as a reflexive practitioner I attempt to articulate my personal model of coaching that generates the results that my clients find most beneficial to them.
What this article is about is ‘approaches to coaching’, with the big exception that you don’t have to part with any money. On the other hand, you may have to pay in another currency; the effort of hard thinking and coming up with your own answers. I hope that is an acceptable compromise. Part 1: Explores the various approach a coach can learn their craft.
Working with family managed organisations as a Mentor and Coach, combined with my Executive roles in professionally managed companies, I would like to share some of my learnings and insights here.
Advancing insights from 1st piece written Dec 12, 2016 from
What to do when the plan goes awry. This is the last in the 5-part series looking at how Sarah, a recent postgraduate who’s in her mid-20’s, with just over £40,000 student debt, learned to handle her personal finances. She’s determined to start her own business as a coach because it’s her passion and earns an inconsistent salary throughout the year. She came to me, for financial coaching, as she wanted to achieve her goals.
The first three parts of this blog looked at what Sarah wanted her money to do, her priorities (the heart bit) and some of the reality of finance (head). In this 4th part, we’ll look at the “hands” of the process, taking the information about the person, their dreams and their realities, and putting those into concrete plans for their finances.
In Parts 1 to 3 I introduced Sarah and her situation, looked at how we unpacked the details of Sarah’s dreams and gave them more structure and how these linked to her current life situation and beliefs. In this 3rd part of the five-part series I’ll look in more detail at realities of her finances, applying the “head”, a more objective approach to the “heart” of her dreams.
In Part 2, I’ll look at how we unpacked the details of her rather vague dreams and gave them more structure. Then we’ll move to how this relates to her current life situation. This is the ‘heart’ of my approach, and in the remaining parts of my 5 part series, I’ll focus on the ‘head’ and the ‘hands’ of making personal finance for Sarah (and others like her) fit into their current realities.
“Why don’t you do an article for coaches on financial wellbeing?” “What, on providing it for themselves, or adding a string to their bow with clients?” “Why not both?”
That’s the origin of this series. In Part 1 I introduce Sarah, a recent graduate with both a Masters and a Bachelors, who was exploring for the first time what is personal finance, how this relates to her situation and her dreams for the future.
Most Coaches & Business Consultants are keen to pass on their knowledge & experience through Power point Presentations (PPT) or slide decks. These Presentations are often good, but do not entirely capture the issues plaguing the Team that need to be addressed. Unfortunately, presentations cannot be the Swiss Army knife of communication.
I was relaxing on my holidays in the USA. On a sunny morning, Mohan, CEO of Grow Investment, called me. I completed a coaching assignment with Mohan about a year ago. In our conversation together, Mohan mentioned that he currently has a highly qualified, competent team reporting to him; however, he saw a lack of trust amongst his team members. As he knew that I had done team coaching for many leadership teams, he wanted to explore if team coaching would work for his top team and help to increase that trust among his members
In part 3 I will examine how trustworthy our self-awareness is, and how knowing that might lead to greater confidence for both coach and client, in three key lessons;
Metacognition can be misleading
Self-awareness is less common than we think
Metacognition has causal power.
My friend and fellow coach Suhas called me on a Monday morning. He had just returned after attending a meeting of all CHROs and Heads of L&D of the large engineering company. He heard a presentation from one of the heads of L&D about a very successful team coaching assignment done by me. Suhas wanted me to meet and talk about my team coaching approach to the CEO of one of the group companies.
We all have something to teach and something to learn. This reciprocity has been a theme for me, and somewhat of a mantra in my ongoing professional development - it is possible to both contribute and learn simultaneously, and using coaching skills has become my way of showing up. To me, this mindset equates to being an empathetic and life-long learner.
This is a story and a dream that started many years ago. It is about the search for the Holy Grail, the key to unleashing the potential energy in leaders, teams and organisations. The journey will cover a new understanding and importance of system energy, how to measure it and most importantly, how to change it.
Understanding that curiosity is one of the basic traits needed for survival has been a paradigm shift for me, my coaching practice, and my education because it addresses how I have intuitively applied curiosity in my coaching practice with my clients to enable their potential. In Part 2, I’ll go into more detail of how curiosity manifests itself in my work as a coach and the approach I’ve used to write up these experiences for curious coaching practitioners to consider as part of their own continuing professional and personal development.
My coach training was excellent but it didn’t prepare me for what I needed to do to set up and run my own coaching business successfully. I want to share some of the things I’ve learnt in this 3-part blog:- 1) before training 2) surviving and prospering post training 3) the nitty gritty of setting up your own business.
My coach training was excellent but it didn’t prepare me for what I needed to do to set up and run my own coaching business successfully. I want to share some of the things I’ve learnt in this 3-part blog:- 1) before training 2) surviving and prospering post training 3) the nitty gritty of setting up your own business.
