Excerpt from the Self-Directed Seminar titled "Managing Disruptive Key Employees"

Coaching helps you achieve greater self-awareness. Coaching is an empowering, eye-opening one-on-one relationship between a coach and a coachee. Using one of several proven techniques such as behavioral interviewing, experiential exercises, 360-degree feedback, personality diagnostic tools and other self-awareness tools and activities, a coach is able to collect information that helps a coachee achieve greater self-awareness and interpersonal awareness. Such information allows coachees to test their reality against how they are perceived by others including their coach. It allows them to uncover hidden talent, build on strengths and work on improving opportunity areas or changing dysfunctional behaviors.

Coaching maximizes your strengths. In addition to increasing self and interpersonal awareness, coaching aims to enhance professional skills and increase personal effectiveness. It focuses on getting you from where you are to where you want to be. Coaches often tell stories of people who did not think they could overcome the obstacle in front of them (for instance, change or modify a problematic behavioral tendency such as angry outbursts), make the next career move or juggle multiple demands on their time such as balancing work, life and school. In the end, most of these people end up effectively tackling and overcoming their challenges, creating for themselves fulfilling and successful life experiences. One of the joys of being a coach is the experience of watching your coachee harness his or her potential, blow past perceived limitations and exceed expectations that were once considered unreachable.

Coaching helps you find your voice and purpose. Upon experiencing the power of coaching, most coachees wish they had a coach to guide them when they made many critical career decisions. That said, a coach would help you appreciate why it might not be too late to embark on what you should have been doing. If you are struggling with a decision, in a difficult relationship with your manager or coworker or if you are dealing with some other situation that is difficult, draining, confusing or overwhelming, your coach is there to help you navigate your options. He or she will help you process your thoughts in light of your circumstance so that you can make the best decision for yourself.

Coaching gives you a trusted partner. Coaching gives you a patient, understanding partner in the journey toward eliciting the best in yourself. Regardless of your failures or self-engendered setbacks, your coach is there not to judge or criticize you, but to offer an attentive ear, a helping hand, and ideas or techniques that will help you navigate obstacles until you achieve your goal. You can speak candidly with your coach without fear of reprisals or being taken advantage of. Good coaches have the ability to hold up a mirror to their coachees so they can see a true reflection of themselves. They do this in a compassionate and humanistic manner with the sole intent of helping coachees maximize their potential.

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