Power of Coaching
One and a half years after coaching
By Catharina Kallio
The effect of coaching can be enormous. At its best coaching will awaken our minds. Being coached should make us realize how we think and by doing so switch not functioning thoughts to more functioning ones. Coaching is all about working your mind and taking action. As simple as that.
My coachee Tommi Laurén, Director of Customer relations says, “Because of coaching I decided to take the time to really focus on my current thoughts, beliefs and behavior”.
“It got me to push myself to an area of discomfort and growth. During the process I realized I need to push myself to perform in public, even if it´s not something I love doing. I knew it was of most importance not to seek any explanations for myself, that I only need to have the courage, take on the challenge and get better at it while doing it.“
Tommi is one of the most sympathetic guys I have had the opportunity to get to know. He is great at what he does and his work history is definitely a proof of that. But as most of us do (oh yes I have seen this going on with so many people), we tend to build up a story about ourselves.
Coaching can generate huge changes in life
That small, or sometimes very big story might seriously stop us from taking the right action. It might easily even stop us from advancing at our job.
Tommis story, somewhere in his mind, was about “I´m probably too young for that job, to do that, to be taken seriously…” Being coached and having to face those thought made him realize the gravity of the situation and then take action.
The power of coaching is to do just that. Change thought patterns, which will then have an impact on decisions and outcomes in life.
