I guarantee many of the 9 characteristics of coachability that we touched upon in the last video will already be on your radar. We might not share the exact language but don’t let that separate us…
Complete with a few tips here is the source of coachability…
Authenticity – are your making your values valuable?
Develop awareness of self (and others) so that you can begin to attune your needs (inner) to the environment (outer). Watch out for the conflict between compliance and defiance when
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The questions just keep coming and coming, under fire a coachee has to deliver. If we are assessing coachability then we need a map to fall back on. A way of locating our present position, helping us out when we get lost and/or agreeing our next steps. In short, what are the characteristics of an effective coachee? There are 3 ways to go about this challenge…
The coachee maps out the areas that are important to them, so that they can be
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Readiness for coaching is the primary goal for my It’s Not About The Coach book, online course and workshop. Here I have taken a well known mantra and given it a coachability twist…when the coachee is ready the coach will appear.
It doesn’t matter how ready and raring to go the coach is (but of course that is vital in its own right) the coachee has to be ready also. In my own experience I have proved to be lacking in coachability at
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Questions, questions, questions – the source of coaching. A mark to ensure we can safely complete our quest. But how ready are people for coaching? If you were to assign a % to coachability, what scores would you award? 0% being low and 100% off the scales for readiness. Go on have a think and then watch this video for the answer…
So how did you get on? Did you aim low and identify an uphill struggle. Somewhere in the middle maybe, stagnant –
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The last video encouraged us to think about how coachable we are. Here we give coachability some context, why is it important? Well authenticity is absolutely key. Recognising your values and expressing them externally has to be at the heart of any change process. It’s the art of coaching. Otherwise we will experience resistance, and ultimately it’s fake.
Our personal energy has a part to play also. The 5 energy sources of soul, body, heart, mind and spirit easily map the triggers for
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Five years ago I published my first book – It’s Not About The Coach. To celebrate in this video I am breaking new ground – this is a shot of me actually delivering a workshop! Live action, raw and real. And what’s more this is the 1st of 7 videos that are coming your way on a weekly basis. Read and watch all 7 and you’ll have all of your coachability questions answered.
Introducing an It’s Not About The Coach workshop with
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If you are not into sci-fi and action movies you can quickly ignore my references to The Matrix. But the point is that when you are performing at your very best you are ready for anything. Once perceived challenges will either show up as opportunities, or they won’t even register on your radar.
A rehash from one of the films quotes might go along the lines of…
Q – ‘What are you trying to tell me, that I in next weeks meeting
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The CIPD has recently developed a 1-day Building Resilience course and I’d like to offer you a free place on the pilot-course, scheduled for Wednesday 25th October in London. I’ve co-designed the course and I’ll be at the pilot also.
The Building Resilience course will be available to the public from November (normal price £495 + VAT). But the pilot is totally free! Here is a quick overview…
The demands of the modern working environment often call upon us to do more with less.
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Cultures evolve and develop over time; values emerge, sometimes forgotten, sometimes sustained. Culture transports value, as do coaching conversations. We all engage in culture whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not. Which is why it is important to define the subtleties of what’s around us.
If it’s true that ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast’ then it will devour coaching in an instant. Therefore, it is misleading to refer to coaching and culture in the same breath.
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When we are in the zone, losing track of our time and of ourselves we are in essence getting high. The rich cocktail of neuro chemicals kicks in and we strive to recreate the mindset, environment and creativity again in the future. We also get high when we are helping others. The reward and feeling is so great we look to repeat it – helpers high.
A quick shortcut to this flow state might involve helping a colleague at work, flashing
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