How Mums can Benefit From Coaching

Coaching helps you get even more out of your life. It saves you time and helps you make even better decisions and enables you to take action by tackling those things which are holding you back. People may use a coach when they are going through change. A new role, relationship or looking for something different but don’t know what it is and therefore how to get it.

Now you tell me how a coach can help Mums?

How to choose a coach

Questions to ask a coach:

• What kind of coaching do you do? – many coaches specialise in a certain areas eg business (executive), life (all round), fertility, relationships etc etc. However a good coach could coach in any area as its not about the topic but about asking great questions and understanding people.
• Can I have a trial run? – what you get out depends on what you put in and how open you can be. Working together for half an hour to see how you feel about that coach is a good idea. It’s a bit like shopping for clothes and trying them on.
• What training and coaching experience do you have? – Look for long term professional training and ongoing professional development. What took them into coaching and what did they do before?
• Whats your definition of coaching? – listen to their answer to feel how this ties into what you want from a coach
• How do you do your coaching? - Do you want to be coached in person, online or on the phone. What way do you learn best? Do they write up notes? 

What Coaching Isn’t

• Therapy – coaching is for people who have the resources to make change. If you don’t due to psychiatric illness then coaching may not be for you.  CBT or other therapy may be better for you.
• Something you have done to you – YOU have to do the work and make the changes. A coach just asks the best questions to allow you to know what to do.
• Mumbojumbo – there is plenty of research evidence to show how coaching improves feelings and performance when given appropriately
• Someone telling you what you should be doing – Its not context specific. If you want to be given advice a mentor may be better suited.  
• Expensive – some people don’t feel they deserve spending money on themselves when they have a small income or no income at all. Does your life have price? How much would you pay for more happiness and fulfilment? Doing nothing has an even bigger price to pay when you are missing out on the opportunity of a life time.

 By Sam Pringle of www.beeleafconsulting.co.uk, Belief: the first step to success

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