Coaches
assist you in deepening your learning, improving your performance, and
enhancing your quality of life. Progress is made as the coach gathers from you, through solution-focused conversations, exactly what you desires
to achieve. Then he encourages
you to consider all the possibilities,
even the ones that seem out of reach. The coaching conversation always focuses
on four questions: 1. What do you want? 2. How might you get it? 3. How might
you commit to making this happen? 4. How will you know if you got it? The coach
guides you into generating your own insights and solutions so that you truly own the outcome and understands your personal potential for
maintaining a positive direction in the future.
After
establishing rapport and building trust in the relationship, a coach begins to
use his communication skills by asking pertinent and powerful questions. This
moves the client toward learning to think outside the proverbial box, realizing
that continuing to do the same things in the same ways will not lead to
positive change and progress. Listening to the client’s responses to questions,
making key observations, and suggesting helpful tools and exercises, allows the
coach to lead the client into a place of clarity, focus, and readiness for
action. This enhanced awareness and motivation enables the coach/client
partnership to begin planning, setting goals, and designing effective action
steps. Ultimately, the client develops a vision and a blueprint for a preferred
future, accompanied by very real ways to progress in that direction at all
times, while the coach encourages and holds the client accountable to his own
decisions and commitments.
