Professional and career coaching became the buzz earlier this decade, immediately showcasing numerous benefits to positioning individuals for success.
Helping people become more emotionally competent and effective personally and professionally develops avenues for new opportunities. Career and professional coaches provide confidence, inspiration and insight. They also provide the right mindset for professional achievement.
Here are five things successful career coaches understand.
The coaching process
- Takes a complete inventory of the clients current professional experience.
- Institutes self-awareness and identifies core strengths.
- Uses core strengths to create relevant and realistic goals.
- Establishes new behaviors and beliefs that frees individuals from old habits.
- Increases focus and provides a balanced perspective, confidence and effectiveness.
2. Blind spots
Insist that clients be clear and authentic about their goals. Responsibilities, set-backs and the demands of an adult life can overshadow reality and cloud vision. Human nature creates blind spots to options and solutions. Coaching can help gain insight and clarity.
3. Coaching tools
- 360-degree listening: Listen and watch the person and get a composite of information form verbal and nonverbal communication. Also, hear the message behind the words.
- Curiosity: Coaching is not judging. It is a process of discovery.
- Principles of emotional intelligence: Developing the four competencies of emotional intelligence (self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness, relationship-management) is a great pathway for building insight, patience and resilience.
- Positive psychology: The strength-based approach uses core strengths to build resilience and stay connected to the joy of one’s work.
- Appreciative inquiry: Assists in identifying what is working and why and clarifies paths to professional growth.
4. Coaching differs from training
While insight and personal growth are often coaching outcomes, learning is based in self-discovery, as opposed to information being imparted in a didactic manner.
5. When and why individuals seek coaching
The decision to seek a partnership with a coach is very personal. The choice should be proactive and viewed as an investment. Conventionally, most people seek coaching during times of transition, challenges with performance and when they stop experiencing professional happiness.
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