The A To Z Of Coaching

Be clear about what results you want. You’ve decided you want some coaching on an area. What outcomes do you want? If you don’t decide this up front, you won’t know when you get there. This is about deciding for yourself what successful looks like for you.

Decide what you want from your coach. What is the role that they can support you best in? It may be that you need the ability to have an independent listener, or that you need someone to hold you accountable. Maybe you need a safe place to be able to brainstorm what your next step is. Maybe it’s about how you turn thoughts into action. Whatever it is, make sure that your coach knows what it is, so that they can be best placed to work with you in the way that you want

Understand what you don’t want. What would bad coaching look like for you and make you feel like you had not received value for money? Again, sharing this with your coach can help them to understand what will work against the success of the coaching relationship. Discussing this up front with your coach will help you keep to boundaries that work for you and also mean that your coach has a clear flag of demotivators for you.

Set some goals for your overall coaching. What was it that made you come to a coach? What would make you really feel that it was the right decision that moved you forwards and got you the result that you wanted? Setting goals for your overall coaching which a good coach will do in the very early stages of working with you will ensure that you have something to judge the success of the coaching against. It will enable you as the client to see what progress you have made as you work through your coaching programme.

Understand where you are coming from. What does the coach need to know about you and your background to be effective for you? This may be sharing things about your background and how www.shayyourlovediva.com fits with your overall situation that you want coaching for.
Know what you want, so you can be clear when you’ve got it.

This builds on the first 5 tips. You’ll have a clear idea about what made you take the step of contacting a coach. Leveraging that idea can give you strength when working with your coach on your goals.

Get clear about how you want to be coached. Yes, that’s right – it’s your session, so if something isn’t working for you share that with the coach. The coach may challenge you about what your reasons are, and whether it is a strategy to avoid moving forwards, but should do so in a way that is supportive to you.