Could Coaching really generate instant results?
Let me start by saying, “It depends on…”.
It depends on your openness to new ideas, to new ways of thinking. It depends on your willingness to listen, to yourself. Yes, right. It’s not only to listen to the world, it is also about listening to yourself.
What do I mean by listening to yourself? Well, the answers you are looking for are already where you are. If you can’t see them, it’s probably because you don’t look at them.
You don’t look at them, because you are constantly occupied by looking at the problem you like to solve. Listening to yourself starts with asking the right questions to yourself.
The right questions lead you to the solution. Mostly the solution is already available. You only need to recognize it. But being constantly busy doesn’t allow you to see the solution.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein.
How does the aforesaid relate to having fast results?
If you answer the right questions, you enable yourself to quickly see the solution. You may say to yourself, “Oh my Gosh, I haven’t seen this…”. Have you ever had such an experience? I guess you had.
Okay, why not get practical here.
A little while ago, I had spoken to someone who was looking for a change in her career. As I didn’t expect to coach her at this moment, I just asked if she would be interested in gaining more clarity.
She said yes. Then I asked her 2 questions again and again, until she ran out of answers. When she didn’t have an answer anymore, she said that she now knows what to do.
Guess how long it took? Hm, not sure? I tell you. It took 8 minutes. From my point of view, that’s getting instant results.
You like to have another example?
An engineer was getting angry when meetings didn’t bring the results he needed to do his work.
Also, he felt that he wasn’t really professionally accepted when he acted angry.
Within 2 coaching sessions, each of about 45 minutes, he had the following results:
- developed his own individual communication toolbox
- increased his awareness of own reactivity
- had a clear process about how to prepare for meetings
- had increased clarity and focus to support decision-making of the management.
That have been 90 minutes well invested after he struggled for several years.
Still not convinced that coaching could bring instant results?
I could totally understand that. Until I experienced the impact myself, I was very skeptical. Yes, I allow myself to make the experience of being coached myself.
But, there is no guarantee that coaching will work in every situation. You have to be willing to accept that there might not be a solution to your problem or issue right now.
This doesn’t mean you couldn’t solve your problem. It just means that the solution may come to you at another moment in time.
Maybe some Case Studies will help you to get more trust before you try coaching for yourself. You could find some Case Studies here…
But… …it might even be better to make the experience yourself. Why? Here is another quote that a wise man said:
The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein.
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