Want to Build the Ultimate Organization? Build an Awesome Coaching Mindset!

 
 
What is having an awesome coaching mindset? First, you must understand that there is a clear and definite difference between a consultant and an expert. Consultants are experts, practicing and honing their skills in the field. As a business coach, you become the expert. YOU help the client navigate the treacherous terrain while allowing that person to choose the absolute best course on their own. As the awesome business coach you actually partner with the client to help get tasks done in a timely, efficient fashion. This helps tremendously by building the necessary trust to strengthen and anchor your coach-client relationship.
 
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In the coaching process, you allow space for the client to use his/her own creative process to bear fruit in the form of self-discovery. You achieve this by being an expert listener, using your empathic listening skills to understand, rather than respond. This creates a “safety zone” for the clients to open up their own minds and create their own solutions. Instead of becoming the “director,” or the mule doing the work for them, you are the friend walking beside them. The professional coach learns to quickly inspire trust by listening wholly with no agendas. Learn to treat the other person as your OPW, or only person in the world. Be slow to judge, don’t rush to solve, and give them space to be who they are. Coaching is delegation in its supreme form.
 
In learning to be an awesome coach, you must learn how to economize the time it takes achieving the task. Be an active participant by partnering with your clients rather than be a superior to them. This will help you bolster their confidence and trust in you, tenfold. Developing the necessary skills and strong mindset of professional coaches will minimize your workload because you glean from your business partners, clients, prospects, and professional associates, what the tasks actually are, with vast efficiency.
 
As a professional coach, you must identify what the underlying issues are. Often it is what is NOT said that is most significant. As the professional coach, you must learn to become a much deeper listener. It is a skill you must practice in order to become a master listener and coach. You can use these skills in any of your relationships, personal or professional, and take them to a much higher level.
 
Make sure the message you send is the same message received. To find out the state and stage of the client’s business, you must place yourself in the other person’s shoes. Listen to what’s been happening in their lives, what actions they have taken, who they circulate with, what their current background is, anything to give you a context on how they might receive your message. You will be able to tune in to what your clients do and say in a way, using your subconscious mind, developing your skills and mindsets. Learn to see what is and isn’t there. Most may not, but, anyone can apply this skill. You must learn how to have a well trained eye to extract the needs in all your relationships.
 
What actions can you start executing immediately?
Begin with practicing true listening shills—whether you are speaking with a client or family member, associate, or friend, practice being completely “in the moment with them.” Listen to understand, not to respond. Come into their living rooms. Listen for tones, speed, and pauses. They are the signs along the road to let you know what’s really going on. Feel what they are saying and NOT saying. Those will be your clues as to where they are. Check in with them on occasion. Make sure you hear is what is really being said. Apply these skills to yourself. You will be surprised at what you find out! Use all of these extremely important skills to reduce the pressure and stress that comes with being a business owner. Become that awesome mentor for your client!
 

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