Transcript
The role of the coach is in my opinion, a role of a guide. It is a person who is able to guide someone in the landscape of a change that she wants to experience and obtain. Nobody goes to a coach without having a desire to change, so change is a keyword when it comes to coaching. And a coach is a guide who is able to really move that person from the present situation into a situation of growth and reaching their goals. So there are two types of change that I would like to point when it comes to coaching: transition or transformation. So the difference between transition and transformation is that transition is when you like to grow and develop in the particular field that you feel you need to change, but not with big drastic changes.
For example, losing weight might be a transition or moving from one job to another can be a transition. However, when it comes to a difference between transition and transformation, transformation is very much on the level of identity. It’s when the person wants to completely change the way they believe how the world should function for them. They are definitely changing the rules and the settings in their own minds how things should be accomplished, for example.
So an example of transformation can be having, for example, a job right now, but becoming an entrepreneur. This is a complete shift in identity, it is a very different way of looking at work and accomplishments when somebody is an employee and very different when somebody is an entrepreneur.
Business is about making money and entrepreneurship is about making sense. If you’re part of a team, I think this is a way of creating a team atmosphere where everybody feels that he or she is needed and they really can provide something to the whole team. If you’re in a leadership position, I think it’s important that you delegate not only tasks, but also [the] responsibility. And this means that you want your people to grow and you want your people to take responsibility and to make things work and also come up with their own ideas. And also by giving an example, how you can create entrepreneurial spirit in your organization.
I’d say it depends. It is yes and no at the same time, and I will elaborate a little bit more on what I mean by that. It definitely depends on the life experience of the person who is a coach. If the person already is having an education, educational background, the higher-level education and the coaching experience or education is just on top of it, that is great and that is a plus. However, many times we might see people who have high education and they’re naturally coaching others without even realizing they’re coaching, they’re actually having the skills, inbuilt or naturally flowing from their being. So in that sense, I would say not necessarily that you need to have coaching credentials, although it’s always a plus and it gives a lot of respect from other people knowing that you actually do have a coaching education However, I do think when somebody is young, like let’s say [the] 20s [at] in the beginning of 20s and this is their first education and that’s what they discover they want to do, I do think it is [an] absolute necessity that they go through a proper coaching education because they still don’t have the right life experience in order to relate to some of the things that will inevitably go through with their coaching clients. So, yes, in that case, if somebody wants to jump directly into the coaching profession from a very young age, I would recommend [going] to go through a proper coaching education.
