121 coaching involves having a series of conversations with someone who has, for the duration of the session, their entire focus on you. A coach will really listen to you. It sounds simple but how often do we talk to someone knowing that they are only half paying attention? The coach will then ask you various questions and help you look at things from different angles.
When you have a challenge to deal with, a coach can help you identify your options so that you can decide on the best way forwards. The key here is that you are the expert on your circumstances, what feels like it will work and what doesn’t. A coach will help you work that out. Relatively few of us regularly take time to actively think about challenges in our lives. When I say “actively” I mean, defining what the problems are, generating ideas and committing to a plan of action. Each coaching session gives you the time and space to develop your ideas, voice them and write them down. A coach can, if you want them to, keep you accountable for actioning steps you want to take.
A coach is objective. Most of us get the benefit of the opinions of people around us. Bits of advice we get from those close to us can be very valuable. They can also be coloured by the viewpoint of the person offering the advice. What might seem like an obvious course of action to one person may not work in practice for another. Sometimes we can’t turn to the people around us as we worry that we’ll upset them, or they are involved in the issue at hand or that we’ll be judged negatively. Working with a coach is therefore quite different.
Some clients come to me to work for a few sessions on a particular small challenge. Others come for a longer series of sessions giving themselves time to explore what’s important to them in life. The coaching process is flexible and ultimately, you can have as many or as few sessions as you want.
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