Why do Great Coaches Matter →

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Great Coaches are not just your external eyes and ears but also facilitators of growth. They provide a more accurate picture of your reality. They recognize the fundamentals and are adept at breaking down your actions and helping you build them back up again.

Leadership with a coaching mindset is about more than just creating an environment that fosters growth and development for both the team and the individual. As a leader with a coaching mindset, you are the catalyst, focusing on helping your team members reach their personal goals while developing their skills.

A large part of coaching is helping someone make sustainable changes by understanding what's holding them back – both culturally and internally. This understanding is the key to helping them deliberately shift toward new beneficial behaviors.

Coaches can help with ”Goals”

How to tell whether a coach or a mentor is needed, and what is the difference? →

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Mentoring is a long-term process based on mutual trust and respect. On the other hand, coaching is for a short period and is more specific in focus. Mentoring creates an informal association between the mentor and mentee, whereas coaching follows a more structured and formal approach.

If you're looking for guidance, support, and insights from someone who's been there, there's no substitute for a mentor.

A professional coach is ideal if you need a trained practitioner to provide accountability. Coaches often come with a proven track record in dealing with specific issues. Even with this distinction, you will get some coaching from a mentor and mentoring from a coach

If you aren’t yet sure of a particular need and want general advice and experience, a mentor may do the best job of seeing where the specific problems are.

Sometimes, a mentor builds so much trust and respect that the mentee might even adopt the mentor’s mannerisms. It isn’t uncommon to find that you synchronize your reactions with the person you are talking to or being influenced by. It is just normal human behavior, also known as “mirroring.”

We all tend to mimic the gestures of people we like and do it subconsciously. So, the good news is that if you build a good relationship with a mentor and mirror their good traits, that is just fine.

Mimic or Mirror the Mnnerisms of Our Mentors Shows That We Have Connected

Be the best that you can be, but be smart enough to know when you need help. →

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Being the best that you can be, is good advice. In “An Essay on Man,” Alexander Pope said, “Act well your part; there all the honor lies. What happens if your position requires you to be more than you are?

An example of that might be if you are the lead in a project or a company and do not know the basics required to be in that position. In that situation, you should either move to a role you’re qualified for or immediately focus on what you need to learn.

Finding the right help can be a challenge. A coach can be a solution if you can identify the areas you need coaching. The right coach may require a complete and accurate needs assessment to determine if you need coaching and what your specific needs are.

Self-help books offer step-by-step coaching in the areas you have determined you are weak in, but you may need specific feedback regularly.

Be the best that you can be!

― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

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