Coaches and mentors are highly valued, highly skilled people who can make a seriously big impact in the lives of others. When it comes to career coaching, the decision to move into the field isn’t always easy.
You might feel that you have achieved a lot in your current field, and you could help others to make a swifter route to success or to get their own businesses off the ground. The highest achievers in a business often have a lot of untapped potential, and speaking to an executive coach can make a significant difference.
But how do you know that you are ready to move into coaching?
Everyone Comes To You
You’ve already displayed your incredible listening skills for years. Wherever you work, people tend to flock to you. You are open to listening and making people feel better about what they are doing. Coaching will enhance the skills you already have and put you in a position that pays, too.
Listening on a deeper level, or active listening, means that you can understand the issues and create a clear path for them to move forward.
Personal Growth
People who move into coaching often have experiences of being coached or seeing a coach in action. And most often, coaches are inspiring because they understand how to get the most from personal growth.
Many people who look for a coach are looking for a way to make their next step or to uncover how their career or business can move forward.
Clarity isn’t always easy to get, and for high-achievers in a company who are looking to make sense of their future and how they can best grow, a coach is ideal. If you are focused on personal growth and love nothing more than to see people thriving – you might be ready to move into a coaching career.
Experience
Guiding people to do something when you haven’t done it yourself isn’t always for the best. However, if you have the right experiences and you want to share them in the best way possible, then coaching is a logical step.
Many coaches have made significant impacts in the companies they have worked for; they have faced large transitional periods, and some have gone from no job to THE job.
It means that when clients ask questions about making changes or direction, you are in a position to help them find clarity.
Research
The best way to know that you’re ready to make the transition from what you do now into coaching – is because you have been researching it. You have taken the time to consider if you are ready and even checked out executive coaching courses. And more importantly, you are excited by the prospect, and you can see that this is the right path forward for your career.
Innovative
When there is a problem, you solve it by thinking outside the box. You know that some strategies are tried and tested – but solving problems creatively is something that comes naturally.
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