Coaching has enabled me to unlock the potential of many of the people that I worked with in my former career. As a recruitment business leader, I used coaching skills to get closer to my staff. To help me to understand their motivations better. And because of these coaching skills, I was able to design incentives and working patterns in order for them to flourish.
I'm more curious and able to suspend judgement which is incredibly valuable for building productive working relationships It allows me to build trust, understand motivations and explore perspectives different to my own. In turn, that's meant I am able to offer perspectives to others in ways they are more willing consider and incorporate
The Google Oxygen project correlated the top skills of managers of high performing teams. The #1 skill? Coaching. It makes you more self-aware, a better listener and critical thinker, and helps you engage whoever you're interacting with. I've trained hundreds of managers in coaching skills, and now that I manage a team, I realize how much easier the coach approach makes to support my team members engagement, performance and development.
CORE Certified Master Coach/Communication Consultant at Lean Into Change
Answered 4 years ago
As a Certified Master Coach with the Center for Coaching Certification and an ICF member on track to receive my ACC Credential, I have benefited from the training greatly as a professional actor. While words have always been my specialty (saying them with intention, singing them with feeling, storytelling), communication is such a huge part of coaching. The way I conduct myself in my theatrical surroundings has changed. I sit back. I listen. I observe the way people speak to each other, and I am tapped into how dialogue flows between leadership (directors, choreographers, music directors and producers) and their casts and crews and production teams. With the mindset that I want to be part of the solution and not part of the problem, when I am in leadership roles I empower. I ask questions instead of telling. When a team member falls, I pick them and ask them to explore options. It's a fulfilling and powerfully positive headspace to be in, and coach training has helped me stay there.
I learned how to really listen to my team. Regardless of your profession, learning to actively listen to your team is the most important thing you can do. I thought I had a pretty good understanding of how to listen to employees, but it wasn’t until coach training that I realized I had no clue how to actively listen and actually hear what my team was saying. For example, through coach training, I learned how to actively listen and really hear what my team was saying, what questions to ask as a follow-up and how to take action immediately to make those changes. And this has made me such a confident team leader! Personally, I think we all feel we know how to listen, but no one is actually really hearing one another - no one getting at the root of the issue. Coach training has helped me confidently step into a leadership role because I know that I’m able to actively listen to my team and serve their needs.
Having certified coach training and professional accreditation has helped me to secure roles with FTSE 100 companies partially due to the credibility and also due to my confidence that I work with evidence-based solution focused approaches. By having a toolkit which has a strong research base attached to it professional organisations are more engaged with working with me as they know I will be providing something above and beyond standard coaching approaches.
Coach training, which is for me is not a one off thing but becomes part of your life and the way you want to work and live. Back in 2003 after doing my coach training it helped me in the consulting work and facilitation I was doing with groups of clients. It helped me in being more open, curious and questioning of their perspective and helped them to open up and go away with clarity on what to do next. What's great about coach training is that you can go as deep as you wish and for me I continue to be open, curious and part of groups who do the same. I love to serve my clients and being selfless is where the magic happens!
Being certified as a coach really hasn't helped me with my other roles (consultant and trainer for PR and related communications agencies). The extensive training required for certification made me a much more effective coach and made executive coaching the predominant part of my three offerings. I think that training and mentor coaching required for certification has made me a much more fulfilled person.
In my experience, one way that coach training has helped me in other professional roles is that it has given me the confidence and tools to be a more effective coach and leader. I can now lead my team more confidently and effectively due to my knowledge of how mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence can positively impact their performance. Additionally, I have a better understanding of how to manage difficult situations with my team using the skills I've learned in coach training.
Learning coaching skills helps me in many roles ranging from professional to personal leadership roles in organizations I'm involved in and even at home with my family. We are all coaches at some point because everyone can influence someone else. Coaching skills require learning patience and that is the one way I've found it helps me the most. Coaches can't speak impulsively but are disciplined because you are setting an example. Therefore, you must be patient with the person you are working with and wait until you have a clear, directed answer to inject information. Even then, they may not get what you are saying right away and that requires more patience.
I would say coach training was one of the best things that ever happened to me as it made me who I am today. There are a lot of things which coach training has given me, and among all, I think getting exposure would be the best, as it helped me grow my personality and also shaped me as a human to a great extent. It made me acquainted with different sorts of people from different backgrounds, which eventually helped me in my business fields. I would recommend this to everyone as it will open many doors in terms of opportunities.
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Answered 3 years ago
Coaching has helped me greatly in my professional roles, especially in building relationships. In coaching graduates on what the program offers, I have interacted with people differently, understanding the role of open communication. Through communication and positive relations, coaches help improve the professional attitude, and I have learned to nurture a positive environment for constructive relations and improvement on overall outcomes. It has also been vital with a morale increase in the team, promoting value and teamwork.
Coach training has helped me in other professional roles by teaching me how to effectively communicate and work with others. Through my coach training, I have learned how to better understand people, how to motivate and inspire them, and how to work together towards common goals. This has been invaluable in my other professional roles, where I often need to collaborate with others in order to achieve success.
Coach training has helped me develop my skills in active listening, asking powerful questions, and holding space for others. These skills have been invaluable in other professional roles, such as teaching, facilitation, and counseling. In addition, coach training has helped me to become more aware of my own personal biases and triggers, and to learn how to work with them in a constructive way.