The Top Four Reasons to Be Coached
Here are some compelling reasons why you as a leader could benefit from a coach.
Take a look and decide for yourself if you need a life coach to help see you through to your goals.
1) Experience More Tranformation - Transformation is deep, lasting, significant change.
Coaching transforms people because it zeros in at the place God is at work in the individual's life: the transformationl experience.
It is in these teachable moments, when circumstances put us under pressure, that we are most receptive to radical change.
And when you combine a teachable moment with a transparent, growth-oriented coaching relationship, the potential for transformation is enormous.
2) Grow Faster, Get More Done - A second key reason to coach and be coached is that coaching is an outstanding way to accelerate growth and accomplish more, both at home and at work.
One large study found that out of the billions of dollars spent on corporate training programs (seminars, e-learning, classes, etc.
), only about 10% of those who attend show any measurable, lasting change in their actual work behavior.
Trainees were taught new skills or ideas, but usually given no support or follow-up to help them implement what they learned.
Consequently, 90% of them promptly went back to their old way of doing things.
We need support, encouragement and accountability to function at our full capacity.
That's why leaders with a coach get more done.
3) Unleash People - One feeling I think every beginning coach struggles with is that coaching is inefficient.
In the short term, advice-giving saves you time by keeping your conversations short.
It always takes longer to help someone discover an answer than it does to dispense solutions.
When someone comes to me for coaching on a major decision, we almost always end up talking about how that person makes decisions.
Do you have confidence in your ability to hear God? Do you know who you are and how this opportunity fits with your life purpose? I'm much more interested in helping people become great decision-makers than in helping them make a right decision.
If they make a good choice, I've influenced that one situation.
But if I help them grow in their ability to make great choices, I've affected every decision they make for the rest of their life.
If you are a leader, taking this approach produces a healthy long-term payoff for you.
The more you help those you lead take responsibility for their own lives, the less work it is for you! Coaching cuts the cord of dependence and unleashes people.
4) Develop Leaders and Multiply Yourself Setting goals, taking action, taking responsibility, making choices, problem solving - these are all important parts of being a leader.
Because coaching exercises people's abilities in these areas, it naturally increases their ability and capacity as leaders.
We need leaders with potent new tools to raise others up and the radical belief in them to unleash them to pursue their destinies.
That's the power of coaching.
Take a look and decide for yourself if you need a life coach to help see you through to your goals.
1) Experience More Tranformation - Transformation is deep, lasting, significant change.
Coaching transforms people because it zeros in at the place God is at work in the individual's life: the transformationl experience.
It is in these teachable moments, when circumstances put us under pressure, that we are most receptive to radical change.
And when you combine a teachable moment with a transparent, growth-oriented coaching relationship, the potential for transformation is enormous.
2) Grow Faster, Get More Done - A second key reason to coach and be coached is that coaching is an outstanding way to accelerate growth and accomplish more, both at home and at work.
One large study found that out of the billions of dollars spent on corporate training programs (seminars, e-learning, classes, etc.
), only about 10% of those who attend show any measurable, lasting change in their actual work behavior.
Trainees were taught new skills or ideas, but usually given no support or follow-up to help them implement what they learned.
Consequently, 90% of them promptly went back to their old way of doing things.
We need support, encouragement and accountability to function at our full capacity.
That's why leaders with a coach get more done.
3) Unleash People - One feeling I think every beginning coach struggles with is that coaching is inefficient.
In the short term, advice-giving saves you time by keeping your conversations short.
It always takes longer to help someone discover an answer than it does to dispense solutions.
When someone comes to me for coaching on a major decision, we almost always end up talking about how that person makes decisions.
Do you have confidence in your ability to hear God? Do you know who you are and how this opportunity fits with your life purpose? I'm much more interested in helping people become great decision-makers than in helping them make a right decision.
If they make a good choice, I've influenced that one situation.
But if I help them grow in their ability to make great choices, I've affected every decision they make for the rest of their life.
If you are a leader, taking this approach produces a healthy long-term payoff for you.
The more you help those you lead take responsibility for their own lives, the less work it is for you! Coaching cuts the cord of dependence and unleashes people.
4) Develop Leaders and Multiply Yourself Setting goals, taking action, taking responsibility, making choices, problem solving - these are all important parts of being a leader.
Because coaching exercises people's abilities in these areas, it naturally increases their ability and capacity as leaders.
We need leaders with potent new tools to raise others up and the radical belief in them to unleash them to pursue their destinies.
That's the power of coaching.
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