- Hello there, in this video,
we are discussing coaching philosophy.
What is coaching philosophy?
How does one develop it?
What are some of the key elements
inside the coaching philosophy?
What are some of the examples that you could consider
and how do you go about creating your own.
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First of all,
what does it even mean to have a coaching philosophy?
Well coaching philosophy is initially used
by football coaches to kind of explain
the philosophy of how they go about coaching
the different teams that they would be coaching
as a football coach.
So when somebody hire a football coach,
they were hiring the philosophy also
of that football coach.
They believed that what the coach believes to be true
about how to build football teams,
is true for creating the football team,
that the person who's hiring this coach envisions.
It is similar in context of life coaching,
business coaching, health coaching,
executive coaching.
A coaching philosophy is simply
the belief that you have around
how a particular transformation is created.
So say for example, you want to be a life coach.
If you are a life coach,
you want to have a philosophy
around how you would create change for your client's life.
What is it that you believe you need to do
with the client or a client need to engage
in a conversation with you
that will create true transformation in their lives.
Say, for example,
you may believe that if you want to create
a holistic change in life,
you need to have a holistic approach
to creating transformation
in each area of the life of the client,
which may mean that your philosophy
is not necessarily saying
here life is a function of relationships
or life is a function of a particular set of beliefs,
but you may say, well,
it is set of many different dimensions
that holistically come together
and will create an impact in your client's life.
Say, for example, if you're a health coach,
your philosophy may say, hey listen,
if you want to transform your health,
you need to consider looking at nutrition.
And if you will transform the nutrition of the person,
you will transform their health.
A philosophy is a set of beliefs,
is a set of ideas,
a set of values that you put out in the wall
for the world to know that is how you work with somebody.
That is how you create transformation
and your philosophy informs your potential client,
if you are the right coach for them.
Now, one may ask,
why do I need a coaching philosophy?
I learn everything and I want to educate everyone
in every way possible.
And you are right.
But a lot of times when there is no clarity around
how you would create change in my life,
it makes it harder for your clients to decide
if you are the right partner.
It also makes it harder for me as a client
to accept everything that you suggest
because we may be at conflict in values
in understanding particular areas of life
or particular areas of work
or particular areas of health.
If I don't agree with you as a client,
there's a big likelihood that I won't follow through
on any conversation that we've had.
Whereas if you lead with your philosophy
and you share that with the client,
the client has full knowledge
of What they are signing up for.
This gives them lot more ease to say yes to you.
Here's another strong reason
to have a coaching philosophy.
Life is huge.
There are so many any elements at any given time
that if we were to go ahead and impact
each of those elements,
it would take us months, years
before we can start to see an impact in a client's life.
With your coaching philosophy,
you bring clarity to your coaching.
When you have a clear philosophy
you approach your client with a particular attitude
and a particular aptitude.
And because of that,
you are also predetermining the kind of outcomes
that the clients can expect,
the area of work that you may focus on,
the kind of results that you would focus on.
And because of that,
there is ease in the work that you do with your clients,
making you a better coach
because of your coaching philosophy.
And of course, like we previously said,
your clients find you a lot more acceptable
because now they're not only buying into,
you are a coach,
but they're buying into your coaching philosophy,
your philosophy of transformation,
which is the way you are actually going
to transform their lives.
Now you may ask a budget that's great.
But how do I come up with a coaching philosophy?
Well, firstly,
it is easier for you to write a coaching philosophy,
if you have had a lot of experience
in the field that you are focusing on.
So say for example, if you're a leadership coach,
you have a lot of experience in leadership,
you can write the philosophy based on your experiences
and your study around that field.
More often than not,
you may be wanting to switch to a career of coaching
and hence may not have a deep rooted experience set
in that particular area.
Or you may have some experience,
but not enough to create a whole methodology
and a whole philosophy around it.
This is where you borrow
somebody else's coaching philosophy.
Say, for example,
if you wanted to become a business coach,
if you will be becoming a business coach,
we would highly invite you to consider
our certified business coach program.
If you are a certified business coach with Evercoach,
we give you a philosophy
to approach your clients with.
This philosophy focus in that coach-consultant approach.
Which simply means that you're not only a coach
to your clients, but you're also a consultant.
There is philosophical foundations that allow you
to be able to consistently deliver to your clients.
There's a marketing message behind it,
so your clients can clearly understand
what are some of the expectations
they can have working with you.
And that leads you to be able to have a philosophy
without having to develop one.
So this is a way to borrow somebody else's philosophy.
Now the third here and the most interesting one
is when you've studied many philosophies
and you create your own.
You mix your experience,
you mix these different philosophies
that you may have learned from other people
using certifications and programs
and then you create your own philosophy
because of a combination of all the wonderful things
that you have studied, experienced, coached on.
So that would be the ultimate.
The ultimate would be you creating your own philosophy
from the experience
and learnings from many different people.
Because that will be unique,
that will be powerful,
that will be backed by many of the philosophies
that you may have studied.
So that would be the most ultimate thing.
At the same point and time,
if you are new and you don't have the experience
to be able to develop your own philosophy,
I would highly recommend to look at our different programs
that we have available on Evercoach
because that is exactly what we want you to have.
We want you to have a philosophy
that you can utilize tomorrow,
if you were in a coaching conversation
with a potential client or a preexisting client.
Now, let me give you a few examples
of coaching philosophies.
One of the more popular philosophies
out there in the world
is Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
Now Neuro-Linguistic Programming
is more of a language technique
that allows you to be more persuasive,
but you could use NLP principles
to be able to coach really well
by tweaking in the language
of the person you're speaking with
and tweaking the language of the person
that is speaking with you.
So that is a simple, more commonly known way
of creating influence in life
that has now been adapted
to be a coaching methodology as well.
Another popular way
of creating transformations for your clients
is 3 principles-based coaching.
Now three principles were initially developed
as a philosophical idea
by a gentleman called Syd Banks.
Now this philosophy has been adapted
to be able to utilize
in the real coaching world.
You can learn more about that
in our impacting leaders quest
that is linked down below.
Now the third coaching philosophy,
which I briefly mentioned,
is the philosophy that leans into the idea
that a coach, in a business setting
also has to be a consultant.
So a coach-consultant approach.
This philosophy is developed by me
where I invite coaches to not only act like coaches,
but also as consultants to small and mid-size companies,
to be able to create real impact in the businesses.
Now you could get trained
on this particular methodology fairly quickly,
again in a four week quest,
call coaching businesses,
which I've also linked below,
you can go ahead and join the free master class,
learn all about it.
So now we are at a stage where we want to ask ourselves,
how is it that I want to implement my coaching philosophy
out in the world?
Coaching philosophy while it's rooted
in foundational principles and values and beliefs
around that particular area
and focal point of the work that you have,
it also is very adaptive.
The coaching philosophy once developed
and once you have found your comfort in it,
adapts to the situation that is showing up
in the world around you.
You may find yourself in a situation
where your clients are feeling anxiety
and you're coaching a strong coaching philosophy
will be able to adapt to the need of the environment.
A strong coaching philosophy will also adapt itself
if your clients are feeling less confident
or don't feel like their businesses are growing.
Most situations can be tackled
by a strong coaching philosophy.
It just looks different based on the situations
that you're currently addressing with your clients.
Now here's the thing about coaching philosophy,
you are a growth centered individual,
that's why you're a coach,
which means you will always be updating
your coaching philosophy.
And that is the right thing to do.
We learn about each other all the time.
Situations around us change all the time.
If our coaching philosophy is not constantly updated,
if it's not constantly re-validated
in the outside world,
we would end up with a coaching philosophy
that in time will not produce the results
that we promise to our clients.
Which is why you constantly want to evaluate
your coaching philosophy and constantly upgrade
your capability of creating an impact with your client.
Now we at Evercoach are determined to help coaches
like yourself create true impact in the world,
which is why we will love to hear
firstly, what type of coach you are.
Secondly, I would love to know
what is your coaching philosophy?
Or a particular coaching philosophy that you know of
and you would love for me to break it down for you
and explain it to you,
how to use it in your practice.
Go ahead, share that with me
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