Thursday 8 August 2013

The secret ART of coaching


The secret ART of coaching

 Have you ever wondered why so many successful practices use a dental business coach and trainer, and what coaching is all about, this article will give you some insights and tips that will start you on the road to success.
 

If you were to put “What is coaching?” into a search engine you would return261,000,00 verbose definitions   most of which when I start to read I don’t know about you I want to put my fingers in my ears and babble “blah blah blah”

 The American football coach expresses what coaching is so eloquently’ “Coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.”

Coaching is an approach, a way of thinking, challenging and exploring, not a set of tools or techniques to be applied in a prescriptive way,

The secret ART of coaching

If you are unhappy with any aspect of your life or business try the ART of coaching and start to make the changes you want now.

 A = Awareness

R = Reflection

T = The next step
 

A= Awareness

When you are working with a great coach they will ask you questions that enable you to get really aware of where you are currently and where you want to be, what your motivations are, what has limited you up until now, what skills talents and resources you have available to you. Your coach will enable you to get clarity, stating things as they truly are not making them better or worse just what is what.

R= Reflection

Your coach will support you in your reflection, by asking you if your current actions, thoughts, emotions, beliefs and identity are taking you closer towards or further away from your outcome. Your NLP coach will be able to help you transform unsupportive and limiting, beliefs and behaviours into supportive ones that will take you to your goals.

T = The next step.

Accountability is one of the most precious gifts your coach can give you. You are much much more likely to make the decisions or take the actions that you know you need to take when you know that your coach will ask you how you are getting on. Experience shows that coaching clients fall into two camps, those that take action immediately after their session, and those that take the action just before the deadline, either way they do what they know is the right thing.  People without accountability partners, seldom take the actions they know will serve them, so don’t get the results they want.

 I hear you asking, “How often should I work with my coach?” that rather depend on how badly you want to reach your goals.

Those Olympians that really wanted a gold medal I suspect worked with their coaches daily. And experience does show that frequency of coaching sessions does influence the time it will take to reach your goals. I think coaching clients is very like treating patients with active periodontal disease; different patient types

·        Patients that once they realise they have a problem they are very keen to resolve the issue and they will do what they need to do, finding the money and the time. They receive active treatment, frequent and regular maintenance/ motivation and do the necessary home care, these patients get well

·        Patients that realise they have a problem and are not fully committed to their own healing, they don’t fully participate in the treatment, put off maintenance / motivation visits and they do not do the necessary essential home care, - these patients will have a limited improvement in health

·        Patients that deny they have a problem and don’t accept the treatment they are offered, bleeding gums are due to aggressive hygienists or hard brushes, some of these patients even deny there is a problem when their teeth fall out on their own. These patients are seldom ever going to get healthy mouths until they discover the magic of ART
As you know the first step  to getting the outcomes you want is Awareness,  use our Brilliant Practice Evaluation (BPE) to assess the health of your practice.  Click here now to check your BPE
 
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