CHAPTER 4

DEVELOPING YOUR COACHING: FIRST STEPS

How do you develop your ability to coach?

This chapter takes you through four key steps:

  1. 1Experience great coaching yourself.
  2. 2Dip your toe in the water!
  3. 3Get trained.
  4. 4Continue learning.

Step 1: experience great coaching yourself

The crucial first step is to experience good coaching yourself. Ideally, you would go one better than that and feel the full-on astonishing experience of working with a great coach.

So, how do you find one?

1. Word of mouth

If something horrid happened and you had to find the very best lawyer in the business, how would you do it? Exactly – you’d ask around for recommend­ations. Do the same to find a coach.

2. HR

In larger organisations, someone in HR, L&D or talent management ...

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