Personal development with transformative coaching benefits
Transformative coaching tips… To transform is to convert through a dramatic change into something that didn’t exist before, altering structure, condition, character, or appearance. If any of these words caused your stomach to tighten, it might be because making big life changes seems some terrifying thing you’ve been procrastinating about for a long time. If you’re struggling to lean into the new you that’s been spotlighted in your dreams, transformational coaching may be the thing you’ve been looking for.
There are personal development models that focus most directly on the problem. They listen and look for symptoms and then find solutions to those symptoms, and the problem goes away. The model of coaching you are presently reviewing is different, in that it looks at the problem as something that actually serves the client. Our normal problem solving paradigm doesn’t allow this perspective to be revealed. Shifting perspective, shifting the paradigm, will dissolve the illusion that the presenting problem is actually the problem. This allows the underlying conversations and conflicts to surface. By conflicts, I mean those interpretations and beliefs that support the “problem” being experienced as a problem.
Transformational coaching draws its roots from a number of places and schools of thought. It takes what has proven valuable in old-school coaching methods and draws them together with new and deeper insights. In fact, transformational coaching is part of such an evolutionary process, gradually developing and adapting from other methods, you can’t even pin down when such a ‘thing’ started. This brings something incredibly powerful to coaching because it brings to the client all the benefits of learning which have gone before, and connects them on a deeper, more substantial, level. Read more details at Natalie Rivera.
Don’t try to be everything to everyone. Focus. Relentlessly grow as a professional. Have a vision for yourself and pursue diligently. Though progress requires action, sometimes we can be too quick to act. Sometimes a momentary pause is all we need to see a challenge from a different perspective, therefore resulting in a different and more effective approach. Thinking and acting are not mutually exclusive. Switching perspective from “me” to “you” switches everything. The saying “people don’t care who you are until they know what you can do from them” is absolutely true! Anyone wanting to influence anyone else must first know what is already influencing them. You do that by asking enough questions to truly understand what they need, and then packaging what you want in a way that meets their needs first.
What can corporate training leaders do to maximize these matriculations? Of course, over the long term it’s possible to maximize matriculations from corporate training programs through assessments of competencies (rather than seat time). This requires a step back to look at what skills need to be mastered and how that mastery maps to the appropriate degree program. In the here and now, most universities work on seat time and learning outcomes which may not always provide an apparent correlation to a degree for the students. Connecting the dots for students and understanding the market value of the degree can provide the incentive for a corporate program participant to matriculate to a degree program.
I am Natalie Rivera, owner and founder of Well Within Coaching. I am dedicated to supporting you being the leader of your life. I will be whole heartedly compassionate with the totality of who you are, as well as hold your feet to the fire when you need it. Source: https://www.well-within.org/.
