Try Coaching on For Change
Have you ever viewed yourself as a coach to your patients? You know, the one who supports them, stands by them, motivates them yet pushes them to achieve more? These natural skills that nurses use every day are critical skills for the profession of Coaching. It is no wonder why many healthcare professionals, including nurses, nurse managers, and others, are becoming coaches.
Perhaps the reason some are drawn to the coaching profession is a way of upgrading their own quality of life and leaving behind shift work and the demands of their jobs, but I suspect it also has to do with wanting to be part of a community that freely shares and supports each other.
Coaches are professionals that work with individuals or corporations to help them define their goals, their visions, their purpose and to achieve more of what they do want and to let go of the things that hold them back. Coaches help people and companies re-think what is possible and explore new horizons. People use coaches to have the life they are dreaming of and to create better balance with your body, mind and spirit. Some personal goals clients may work on include:
- Change careers
- Enhance self-image and build self-esteem
- To deal with setbacks
- Close a door and move forward in life
- To break through barriers
- To understand themselves better
- To earn more money and get finances in shape
- When they are overwhelmed, stressed out or frustrated
- When starting a business
Companies Use Coaches To:
- Put together a business plan
- Run their businesses more effectively
- Increase their companies profits
- Powerfully influence people
- Install administrative, selling or management systems
- Retain employees
- To bring in new business
- To update their business
- To add balance to their lives
- To set team goals and visions
Coaching is a form of consulting where the coach is focused on staying with the client to find the answers and implement the new skills and changes and actions to make sure the results really occur. Coaching is not psychotherapy. It is about setting goals for the future and making positive changes. Coaching does have some of the principles from sports coaching, like teamwork, it is about meeting your own personal goals and being the best.
Coaches work in a variety of settings with most being in private practice for themselves. Since almost all coaching is done by telephone, they simply get a telephone headset and have no geographic boundaries or other constraints. Some coaches work as associates in coaching companies, while others work for corporations like Pizza Hut or Ernst and Young.
For most coaches, being a "coach" means simply being yourself and living a life that honors your values and upholds your personal standards. A life that allows you to share your special gifts with others. How do you know if you have the qualities to be a coach?
Ask yourself these questions:
- Do I recognize the specialness in each person?
- Do people often come to me seeking help and advice?
- Do I want to share my special gifts with others?
Coaching requires no specialized degree, or education and allows professionals in other careers, to transition into coaching by using the shared aspects of their current career and coaching. Nurses, for example, have the same values of a coach: they are caring, perform services for people and have compassion. They also have the same people skills as coaches: listening, relaying information in a manner that can be received and applied by others. Both careers have people as their focus. Both professions help people one person at a time and believe in progress, not perfection. A coach and a nurse can do objective assessments and determine goals by each person's unique situation. What many nurses who transition into coaching find is that they are no longer responsible for fixing people – no one is broken. As a coach, they see the clients as the drivers and being responsible for finding their own answers. This shift from wanting to fix things to not being responsible for the outcomes is one which many nurses have really enjoyed as they became coaches.
FYI:
Most coaches meet with their clients three or four times a month for 30 minute coaching sessions. Coaching sessions are conducted over the telephone which makes it very easy and convenient for both the client and the coach. Fees for coaching services range from $250 a month to well over $1,000 a month for highly specialized coaching
Coaches learn the core coaching competencies by attending a coach training program. The one that is geared for professionals such as nurses, who want to become coaches, is called Comprehensive Coaching U and can be visited on the web at www.comprehensivecoachingu.com or you can call 877-401-6165 for more information.
Do You Want To Be A Coach?
How Many of These Would You Say Yes To?
- Do I want to work with highly motivated people?
- Do I want a business that isn't dependent on geography...that's flexible, done by phone and I control?
- Do I want a business that healthcare reform can't impact?
- Do I want to work with successful people looking for greater success?
- Do I want to work smarter, not harder?
- Do I want to supplement my income with a great part-time job?
Author info:
Terri Levine, The Guru of Coaching SM, Ph.D., MCC, PCC, MS, CCC-SLP is CEO of Comprehensive Coaching U, a Master Certified Coach, Public Speaker, and Author of "Stop Managing, Start Coaching", "Work Yourself Happy", "Coaching for an Extraordinary Life", and "Create Your Ideal Body. To learn more about Coaching and related programs, or to sign up for Terri's newsletter, please visit http://www.terrilevine.com or call: 877-401-6165. You can also contact Terri via website here: http://www.TerriLevine.com/contact-me.htm
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