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2018 - Becoming a Professional Coach

I was really enjoying all my work management people. And that was a time for me to do something I wanted for a very long time, to become a certified professional coach.

Initially, I decided to attend a course, because I wanted to have more tools for helping others to achieve their best. But in the end, I ended up learning much more than I expected.

Being a coachee

At this point, I had a coach myself, that helped me a lot during all my adventures. So I already knew how coaching worked, and how valued the process is.

During the two years as a coachee, that I had at the time, I got to learn more about myself than the rest of my entire existence.

What is coaching

I have a very special way to explain what coaching is for people involved in technology.

Coaching is a process of facilitation, kind of a framework, where we will go through many areas of your personal and professional lives in other to achieve an expected result.

Systematic approach

The school I attended, which is called SBCoaching, they teach us to think about the coachee's life as a whole. So we always help the coachee in several areas of their personal and professional life.

We need to make sure coachees have solid foundations in other to pursue their desired goal.

Clarity

Clarity is the stage we help the coachee to identify what really matter for them.

In other to have good clarity, we need to go through assessments to identify the coachee's personality traits, over-all life statuses, strong and weak points, and some other assessments for special cases.

One of the tricky things about clarity is identifying what the coachee really wants in the middle of a society that already tells you what you should want.

Action

Action is the stage to make the coachee to stop thinking and start doing.

We will create detailed plans, including strategic, tactical and operational plans, completely aligned with the coachee's goals. So they can feel good enough to start acting more than thinking.

It is possible that the coachee get's stuck in the clarities phase. They will decide to stay there because after each session they will know more about themselves.

To avoid that, we should start creating the habit of action on top of clarity as soon as we can.

Results

Results if the stage the coachee have achieved your goals, or have achieved a minor milestone.

One of people's pitfall is that they usually don't measure exactly how much they want to achieve. If someone wants to save money, it is harder to define exactly an amount.

Without proper measurement of achieved goals, you will not enjoy all the effort you did, and celebrating your goals is a big part of the process.

Wrapping up

The course had provided several new tools and principles. I got to the next level when it coming to help individuals and I'm really glad I had this opportunity.

After finishing the course, I started dedicating a few hours of my time a week to work as a professional coach, in order to be fluent in coaching.

Regards,
Renan de Azevedo

Updated at 2020/06/26 12:54.

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