When
participating in a businesscoaching training program or executive coaching certification, what is
the biggest
challenge to learning how
to coach effectively? The answer comes from 7 years of training coaches:
the most common challenge is to transition from mentoring, consulting, or
giving advice to accessing the expertise of the client them self and eliciting
the goals, obstacles, solutions, and plan from them.
For example, a mental health
professional has
great transferable skills. The challenge for them is that they are
trained to diagnose, work with past issues, provide information, and give
advice. A coach does not do any of these things. So for a mental
health professional the challenge is to switch gears and truly put the client
in charge.
Consultants and mentors are accustomed
to being the expert and giving advice. They do have many transferable
skills. The key is to ask questions that are truly open to the client
discovering whatever their answer is instead.
For people that have education and
experience and really want to help, the challenge is the paradigm shift from
helping by providing answers to helping by empowering the individual client to
figure out their own answers.
Business
coaching training and executive coaching certification is designed to
develop the core competencies of a coach, which means that fully embracing the
content of the training will move participants past the big challenge to really
understanding the value of
helping by empowering. In the business world this enhances
engagement and productivity.
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