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Benefits of coaching to the coach – available to all?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over many years I’ve listened to coaches who are passionate about learning coaching skills, that inspired them with confidence to go and help others.<\/p>\n

That’s marvellous, but what if others aren’t ready to be helped through coaching? They don\u2019t feel ready to be a coachee; maybe they\u2019d rather be told, or shown what to do or get a sense of direction from a group? I\u2019ve been there, I want to help people be ready; particularly to be able to contract a coaching relationship of equal power. I liken it to me not personally trusting anyone with my website; I want some control, my website (or received coaching) must be about me, what I want (even if I don’t exactly know what that is yet and seek freedom to change my mind at any point).<\/p>\n

Soft Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n

I felt so strongly that coaches have better soft skills than others by virtue of their training and practice \u2013 it really upset my values of fairness and honesty \u2013 that I did a doctorate with a thesis on how project managers learn soft skills through coach practice! Finally, after 7 years it has been completed. From an academic standpoint I can honestly say I\u2019ve contributed to the limited literature on the benefits of coaching to the coach. To any coach, the findings are not surprising because they are typical of a novice coach. However, what was great from my perspective was that these project managers took their soft skills learning into their work role where there was no expectation to coach and coaching was not important. They mainly used coach-like soft skills for supportive and collaborative working with increased confidence in their job role as a result.<\/p>\n

Many people are encouraged to use coach-like skills now, not just coaches, but the power is attributed to coaching rather than learned soft skills that can be used anywhere. This feels slightly dishonest to me even though I acknowledge coaching has provided a brilliant insight to soft skills \u2013 far better than other disciplines. I am happy with democratising coach-like skills because more is expected of professional coaches: for example knowing about the theoretical underpinnings of their work. There is more to coaching than using soft skills \u2013 isn\u2019t there? Knowledge is supposed to be easily accessible these days on the internet, but is it? Are we getting to sufficient depth and breadth in the understanding of coaching to warrant our professionalism?<\/p>\n

The Agile space<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the take up of coach-like skills becomes more prevalent, coaches can lead the way, provide coach mentoring and supervision – possibly in many different and new ways that are valuable!<\/p>\n

Image by Gerd Altmann<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n

Read more blogs on Coaching Culture – Approaching Coaching: Two books reviews by my son<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Benefits of coaching to the coach – available to all? Over many years I’ve listened to coaches who are passionate about learning coaching skills, that inspired them with confidence to go and help others. That’s marvellous, but what if others aren’t ready to be helped through coaching? 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