The Purpose of Coaching
How often have you had the experience of feeling the need to take a
new direction in your life or your work?
Did you also feel you needed to find some new knowledge or learning?
Perhaps you buy a book or go on a course to learn new skills. And then you return home or to work all fired-up and ready to put everything into operation. You have the best of intentions to fully implement the new way of doing things.
You start with vigour and determination. By the end of day one, you’ve made a start but it’s still a long way from readiness. Day two starts well, but by now you’ve got into a day of pre-planned activities. You resolve to do something before you leave that day. Of course, when you get to it, for a whole set of very good reasons, you don’t move any of the project forward.
By the end of the week you realise that what you did on day one was your best effort so far. A month later you notice that nothing’s moved any further forward and the project has moved on to your long term to-do list.
It’s been our experience at AHA! Coaching that this can be what many well-intentioned people suffer
from when trying to make big changes. It's a very understandable and common experience.
So, you are saying, “What's the cause and what's the answer?” There are many reasons for this, but fundamentally, making significant changes can be more than an individual can take on without the support of another person.
This is where coaching comes in to the picture.
Wherever new learning is required and needs to be implemented so that it becomes the new way of operating, coaching makes all the difference.
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