4 Misconceptions About Career Coaching
4 Misconceptions About Coaching
Coaching is primarily for correcting behavior, or for lifting poor performance.
This may well have been true in the past. Up until the last few years you might have kept it to yourself that you were working with a coach. Many coaching programs were initiated by the employer to improve performance or lift their game. The focus today is more proactively placed on what people are capable of doing and being. It’s about building on success and not fault finding or correcting.
If you work with a coach it is seen that you’re serious about building your future, building your professional skills and more importantly, that you’re proactive about achieving it.
Your Coach will tell you what to do or how to do it.
We don’t learn by being told. We learn best through self-discovery which is far more profound and long lasting.
The coach’s role is to help you connect you to a path that will make the most significant positive difference to you – in your current job, your career, your leadership or any other area of your life. You’ll be guided and challenged through discussion and questioning to identify the direction that will motivate and excite you – a direction that has more meaning and purpose, with increased opportunities for success. A direction that helps you achieve what you really want in your life.
Your coach, will find you the job and/or write your CV.
Purpose of a coaching is to help and support you to move your career forward more quickly than you can on your own. Moving your career forward requires building on your skills, your professional identity, of marketing yourself to stand out from others. CV is a part of your brand. It is not helping you by doing your CV for you.
Coaching requires only 1 or two sessions.
The direction and outcomes from coaching are determined by goals and actions set, and your willingness to commit to the coaching process. In a practical sense – achieving lasting change is not a short term process. However, should you want to test the waters with a coach, most coaches will offer a short package. But achievement of a significant goal such as career change, new job, managing workplace conflict, building leadership skills, takes an investment in time.
Many successful people and high performers are using a coach.
Why aren’t you?
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