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FINDING A COACH
Coaches differ in their training and in the quality of the services they offer. The best way to select a coach is to get a recommendation from somebody you respect. If you have a potential coach in mind, try to interview a former client of that coach to determine if the coach has the qualifications you are looking for. The Christian Coaches Network (www.christiancoaches.com) also will give you the names of their members who might be able to help. Because most coaches have a website, go to these to determine if any potential coach is a person you want to work with.
As you look for a coach:
Think about the level of coach training and experience you want your coach to have. You will discover that of coaches who advertise their services, some are trained and some are untrained. They differ significantly in the quality of their training and in their level of experience or expertise.
Give some thought to the issues you want to work on in coaching. Is the coach you are considering best able to help with these issues?
Try to get some indication of the coach’s values, worldview, and Christian commitment. To what extent are these important to you?
Most coaches have designated times or days available for phone interviews. For this reason, it is best to either call or send an e-mail message to request time for an interview. This is a mutual get-acquainted discussion that usually lasts around thirty minutes and is free.
Unless you feel at ease with the first contact, plan to interview more than one prospective coach. In these conversations:
Think about whether you feel comfortable talking with the potential coach. Usually it is best if both the coach and the client sense that they could build a good working relationship, so try to find a coach with whom you will be able to work well.
Listen for passion, authenticity, style, manner, ego, world-view, humor, and attitudes.
Be aware of the questions the coach asks you and how they are asked. This likely is how questions will be asked if you hire the person as a coach.
Determine how much training or experience this coach has. Does he or she have skills that would be helpful to your issues? Ask why the person entered the coaching field and the types of situations he or she has coached. Be cautious when the potential coach is evasive about answering these questions or when the coach claims to have the ability to help anybody regardless of need.
Ask what is included in the fee, if a time commitment is required (like at least three months of coaching), and what options are available.
Coaching fees normally are payable monthly, often in advance, for a specified number of months. How can you terminate the coaching?
If you interview more than one coach, let them all know of your final decision. This is a matter of courtesy.
These are questions that you might ask a potential coach. Keep in mind that if you become a coach, other people may ask these questions of you. They are designed to enable the potential coach and client to establish a compatible and trusting relationship.
COACHING FACTS
What is coaching?
The first time it was ever used, the word coach described a horse-drawn vehicle — a stagecoach that would get people from where they were to where they wanted to be. A modern bus does the same thing, and often these vehicles are called coaches. Most often today, coaches are people who help athletes and teams move from one place to another that is better and where they want to be. Even Tiger Woods has a coach to help improve his game of golf. But coaches also help musicians, public speakers, and actors, who rely on coaching to improve their skills, overcome obstacles, remain focused, and get to where they want to be. Coaching is very popular in business and corporate settings around the world where “executive coaches” help managers and other business leaders deal with change, develop new management styles, make wise decisions, become more effective, cope with their hyperactive lifestyles, and deal with stress. Executive coaches work with people in business to help them move from where they are to levels where they are more competent, fulfilled, and self-confident than they would have been otherwise. In summary, coaches guide people from where they are toward the greater competence and fulfillment they desire. Christian coaching is the art and practice of working with a person or group in the process of moving from where they are to where God wants them to be.
Why would anybody want a coach?
Coaching helps people who want to:
Get unstuck
Build their confidence
Expand their vision for the future
Fulfill their dreams
Unlock their potential
Increase their skills
Move through transitions
Take practical steps toward their goals
How does coaching differ from counseling?
Unlike counseling or therapy, coaching is less threatening, less about problem solving, more about helping people reach their potential.
Coaching is not for people who need therapy to overcome painful influences from the past; coaches help people build vision and move toward the future.
Coaching is not about looking back; it’s about looking ahead.
Coaching is not about healing; it’s about growing.
Coaching focuses less on overcoming weaknesses and more on building skills and strengths.
Usually coaching is less formal than the counselor/counselee relationship; more often it is a partnership between two equals, one of whom has experiences, perspectives, skills, or knowledge that can be useful to the other.
What do coaches do to help others?
Coaches stimulate better skills. Good coaching helps people anticipate what they could become, overcome self-defeating habits or insecurities, manage relationships, develop new competencies, and build effective ways to keep improving.
Coaches stimulate vision. Many individuals and churches have no clear vision. They keep doing what they have done for years, without much change and with little expectation that things will ever be different. Coaches work with individuals and organizations (including churches) as they think beyond the present, more clearly envision the future, and plan how to get there.
Coaches help people grow through life transitions. Whenever we encounter major changes in our lives — such as a new job, a promotion, a move, the death of a loved one, the launch of a new career, or retirement — we face uncertainty and the need to readjust. Experienced coaches better enable people to reassess their life goals, find new career options, change lifestyles, get training, reevaluate their finances, or find information so they can make wise decisions.
Coaches guide Christians in their spiritual journeys. Many believers understand the basics of the faith and aren’t looking to be discipled. But they need focused time with somebody who has been on the spiritual road longer, who models Christlikeness, can point out the barriers to growth, and can guide the journey.
Coaches speak the truth in love. Good coaches know that sometimes the best way to help is by refusing to ignore harmful behavior patterns. Instead, coaches nudge people to deal with attitudes and behavior that should be faced and changed.
What happens in coaching?
Coaching is a relationship that most often is client centered and goal directed. Every coaching situation is unique, but usually coaches will begin by exploring the issues that the person wants to change. In what areas does he or she want to grow? Sometimes the person wants to be a better leader, better self-manager, or someone with a clearer perspective about where to go in the future. Christians in coaching may seek to determine where God appears to be leading them to go. There is also the need for better awareness of where the person is at present. What are his or her strengths, weaknesses, abilities, interests, passions, spiritual gifts, values, worldviews, and hopes? Often the coach will use assessment tools to enable people to learn more about themselves. Then comes vision. Coaches might assist people, organizations, or churches in formulating life-vision or life-mission statements. Coaches might ask, for example, “Considering your gifts, abilities, driving passions, and unique God-given personality, what is your life mission?” It takes time to answer a question like that, but without a clear vision, people, churches, organizations, and even governments tend to drift with no direction. At some time, coaches will help people set goals and plan ways to reach these goals. When obstacles get in the way, coaches challenge, encourage, and give accountability so the person can get past the obstacles and experience success. A coach can help you remove the blinders, allowing you to see what you may not recognize and give support as you move forward. A Christian coach is there for you, prayerfully listening to your concerns and asking questions that will give you clarity on your situation, get you past your own blocks, realize your God-given potential, and challenge you to be your best.
Copyright © Gary R. Collins, 2009, used with permission
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How will you use this information in the future?How is this information valuable to you and your future clients?
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