Good questions from a life coach for personal development growth:
Is Personal Development Coaching for You?
BY LEA BRANDENBURG
Reprinted with permission
PLEASE NOTE: This article asks questions based on those in the Couch U website and which can also be found on Creating Strategies, which the author directs. As you review the questions below, notice if the answers you give about being ready for change require another person to see to it that you make those changes — or if you have within you the ability and willingness to set a compass for your own course and follow it without being prodded.
Not everyone can work alone and it's not a crime to need help. We all do from time to time and from a variety of sources. This article, as well as others in the Creating Change section, might help you determine what's right for you.
— Arlene Harder, MA, MFT, Editor-in-Chief
Is this the right time for you for you to invest in coaching? How coach-able are you?
Ask yourself:
 Are you open and willing to try a new approach to your challenges or goals?
In addition to discussing the various options available to you with your coach, are you ready to take action in your life? Are you willing to do the fieldwork that the coach suggests?
Are you willing to make the time commitment involved in scheduling and then keeping coaching appointments? Are you able to be punctual to your coaching calls/appointments?
During a coaching session can you and will you focus on the coaching without any outside distractions?
Are you willing to stop or change any self-defeating behaviors that are limiting your success?
Are you ready to accept responsibility for your actions at all times and do not expect the coach to "fix" you, because you know that you are the only one who can generate results in your life or business?
Is coaching the appropriate process of change for you? (other more suitable options may be therapy or a twelve-step program)
Are you able to share with the coach when you feel you may not be getting what you need or expect (as soon as you recognize it) from the coaching process? Are you willing to ask directly for what you need?
Do you believe that coaching is a worthwhile investment? Are you ready to invest in coaching as a part of your personal and business development?
Do you have adequate funds to pay for coaching and will not regret or suffer about the fee? Are you ready to not let finances be a barrier to the coaching?
© 2002, Lea Brandenburg. Reprinted with permission.
Lea Brandenburg is president of Creating Strategies in New York, NY, and has been coaching an international group of clients and businesses since 1997. Her areas of expertise and passion are interpersonal and business communication, intuitive intelligence and creativity. She is a graduate of Coach U, the coaching industry's premiere and oldest training program, a member of the International Coach Federation, which is an association dedicated to preserving the integrity and ethics of the coaching profession, and a Founding Member of Coachville, the first on line coaching training company and portal. You can contact her at lea@creatingstrategies.com. |
