Coaching for Personal Development

This form of coaching is similar to Coaching for the Problem Performer. Here the focus is less on correcting work problems and more on building upon a person’s basic character and potential in order that they can experience even greater professional accomplishments and life satisfaction.

Candidates for this form of coaching are often going through some sort of life or career transition. They may have experienced a life-altering event or simply have become aware that it is time now to move on to a new life stage.

This type of intervention can be triggered by an individual employee or by his or her team leader. In any case, the impetus for taking a coach is the decision to put real effort into making a significant life change and growth effort and to do it well.

We have had excellent success in supporting committed individuals in making these types of changes. One reason this occurs is that a coaching intervention builds on skills people have already picked up from training courses, readings and general life experiences. It pulls them together and shapes them into a successful outcome.

Here are some typical triggers for making the decision to use a coach for personal development:

1. The realization that an individual feels stuck, needs to articulate a more desirable future and go about creating it
   
   
2. The need to find practical ways to bring that future into being
   
   
3. The need to improve troublesome relationships at home, at work or both
   
   
4. The need to have a plan for some dimension of their lives, to set goals and to harness the energy necessary to achieve their goals
   
   
5. The need to effectively manage a significant change or transition in their lives
   
   
6. The need to deal better with a disappointment or loss, such as a demotion, a less than desirable transfer, a failed project or the end of a relationship
   
   
7. The need to get a better handle on the imbalance between work and home lives
   
   
8. The need to acknowledge a whole range of personal issues that have to do with the complexities of ambition, achievement and career fulfillment.

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