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Training as a coach can be a life-changing learning and personal development experience but what is life actually like once the training is over? We spent a ‘day in the life’ of three Barefoot Coaching alumni to help shed some light on the daily realities, challenges and rewards of working as a coach.
My experience of working as a coach for the past 20 years has taught me that women often have difficulty acknowledging their achievements and ‘blowing their own trumpets.’ Many of my female coaching clients have confessed to experiencing Impostor Syndrome, which means that they are unable to believe that they are competent, they feel like a fraud, think they will be “found out” and lack self-belief.
Newly qualified coaches often ask me “How do I get credibility as a coach when it is obvious to clients that I have not been coaching for very long?”. So, how do you bridge this credibility gap? What got you here WILL get you there.
The creation of a coaching culture has become a goal for many organisations. If you are just starting out on this journey here are some questions to ask before you begin, followed by some of Barefoot’s top tips to move you closer to achieving your goal.
Most of the students who graduate from our Postgraduate programmes in coaching say that they use the coaching skills in their daily lives – with their partners, children and friends as well as in the workplace.
Working as a team coach is not for the faint-hearted! In addition to an understanding of adult learning principles, experience of facilitating groups, a recognized qualification in coaching, an understanding of group dynamics and a grasp of organisational life and culture, a team coach should have the following qualities and attributes:
When I began my PGCERT course it seemed that everyone who was being coached wanted to start small and not give too much away. Very often people wanted to be coached on topics such as “I would like to get fitter”. “I would like to do some more exercise”. “I would like to lose a little bit of weight.”
Most people enquiring about training with us at some point pose the question “Apart from the coaching skills, what else will I get from doing this course?” How do we begin answering this question?
This guest blog from one of Alumni & Business coach Gary Cole has a few words of wisdom to share with HR teams on how to improve on their L&D strategies.
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
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