5 Signs That You’re Ready To Allow Coaching To Transform Your Life
Coaching can be transformational… and the change comes from within.
We all have goals in life, whether personal or professional. Some of us want to head a leading corporation before we’re 40, and others want to get married and have two kids by that age. There are those who want to author an award-winning novel, yet others want to establish a school that will nurture future generations. No matter what our goals are, no matter how big or small, there will be times when we face stumbling blocks and times when we even wonder if the goal is indeed worth the effort. It’s at times like these that transformational coaching could really help.
How can coaching be transformational?
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership.
We all have goals we want to reach, challenges we’re striving to overcome and times when we feel stuck. Partnering with a coach can change your life, setting you on a path to greater personal and professional fulfilment.
Who can benefit from transformational coaching?
If you are still not sure of how and why you should find the right coach, consider if any of the following five situations apply to you.
You’re a reluctant networker. You know that you should and could tap into a wider pool of connections that would lead to personal and professional opportunities beyond your imagination. However, you’ve predicted that they will be uninterested in you and your story and choose not to.
You’re struggling to get used to your new normal and find yourself most annoyed with and snapping at your partner, your child and those closest to you. The new situation could be being in a new country or city, in a new job or position, or even in a completely new career. You know that you are venting your frustration on those who don’t deserve it, but seem unable to stop yourself.
You’re well-qualified and well-prepared for a job interview but just cannot muster up the right answers at the right time. You really want to leave a positive impression, first and foremost, and then tackle the task of bagging the job of your dreams.
You’re the peacekeeper of the family and your team. Or so you think. While handling the hot tempers and fragile egos of the others around you, you feel that you have put your needs on the back burner. You now want to be heard, understood, loved and appreciated.
You know that a lot of success in life depends on the ability to produce first-rate work and also being able to talk about it. You want to become a more effective communicator, leading to more recognition and greater opportunities.
If any (or all!) of these situations resonated with you, you might be ready for transformational coaching. This is designed to facilitate the setting of personal and career goals, as well as develop and carry out a strategy for achieving these.
The importance of setting a goal during transformational coaching
In some cases, you might feel stuck and not even have a clear goal of what you want instead. In these instances, coaching will start with helping you to discover and express what your real goal is. Then the process will be aimed at helping you over time to stay focussed on this goal and develop the skills, knowledge and new ways of thinking required to achieve this goal.
There may be situations where you might have a clear goal in mind but as you go through the coaching process, you discover that that was not what you want or need at all. In these cases, the process will help you to go back to explore, discover and express what your real goal is and then focus your attention over time to achieve this goal.
Some of the personal and professional goals that transformational coaching can help with are:
Maintaining and valuing ‘harmony’ with loved ones.
Improving networking effectiveness by understanding the beliefs that get in your way
Finding ways of becoming a more assertive communicator in the workplace
Improving relations and navigating relationships to get the outcomes you desire
Get clarity about the career path you want to pursue and understand why you want to walk away from your current one.
Hear from those who’ve experienced transformational coaching
“…For context, I had moved to a new city, bridging my career and transitioning into a really competitive field with so many other high performers… Coaching played a significant part in helping me achieve my targets… First, it was the clarity for what I want. I was able to define my goals with more precision, and that formed the base of my strategy.”
“We set a goal at the beginning of the sessions and I am happy to say that I feel this goal was achieved - though not quite in the way that I had originally thought. Instead of giving me plain answers to my questions, Nerice helped me think through the issues that I wanted to address and arrive at my own solutions. In hindsight this was much more effective and useful as it helped me come up with a toolbox of what I needed to reach my goal.”
If you feel that you’re ready to allow coaching to transform your life, do get in touch. Nerice Gietel is a career coach in UAE and Dubai, who has lived and worked in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Nerice is ICF ACC accredited and has coaching certifications from Oxford Brookes University, UK and Transcend International. She has a global coaching clientele in cities such as London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Mumbai and more, with coaching sessions taking place online and in person. Read more and find out how she can coach you to transform your life.