Personal Coaching To Be All You Can Be
It is extremely important to set goals if you want to achieve results. We all know this; we've all heard it repeatedly. For goal-setting, you need clarity and balance. A personal coach will help you in determining your goals, which will lead to better performance and a better chance to get what you want from your career and personal life.
The role of a personal coach is to help individuals clarify their thinking, set and achieve their goals, realize their dreams, and create balance in their lives. Hiring a personal coach to help identify and achieve desired results is a relatively new phenomenon. There are now approximately one hundred personal coaches in the Greater Vancouver area, up from a handful in 1998.
The personal coach can only act as a facilitator and not a therapist. While a therapist tries to fix things which are the result of past activities coaches look into the future to maximize the potential which resides within their client. A coach can be a confident and as a source to look into whenever life face some stumbling blocks.
Personal coaching is less about giving advice than about discovering what you want to do with your career and your life. It helps people build on strengths, address weaknesses, and create reasonable plans for the future. It is much easier to hold to your own plan than one imposed on you from outside.
One of the best way to ensure positive results is to install accountability. The best way to do this is to have an outsider regularly assess your progress. Studies have shown that while only one in five people who start exercise programs reach their goals, the vast majority of them had a coach to provide advice and progress reports.
Anyone who wants to achieve their goals can benefit from personal coaching. Many athletes have personal coaches, as do a growing number of professionals and executives. In the work place, corporations are using personal coaching programs as part of their human resource management strategy.
The coach will do questions like this: What's the biggest challenge you have? What do you really want? What are you merely tolerating? What manageable steps would help you to achieve your goals? Personal coaching may involve homework and exercises, and your coach will seek a response.
Every one with unmet ambitions or unrealized potential can gain from personal coaches. A personal coach helps you clarify your thinking, setting goals and focusing your efforts towards achieving them and gaining a sense of balance in your life. He is not a therapist but a facilitator for maximizing your potential. His personal coaching improves your performance and also helps you through homework, exercises and your feedback, to face such questions as what you really want out of your life and how to go about attaining your objectives. Coaching as part of human resource management also helps organizations to develop the capabilities of their employees.
Published July 20th, 2007
Filed in Education