Coaching is prominent in the sporting arena. Every exceptional sports person or sports team has a great coach. Business, leadership and personal success can derive great lessons from sport coaches. Nowadays sports coaching especially in soccer, goes in tandem with good business acumen.
JONAH NYONI
Coaching is an art for facilitating, eliciting, evoking and encouraging success in an individual or in team players. Leadership or Executive coaching has been defined as, “an experiential, individualized, leadership development process that builds a leader’s capability to achieve short and long-term organizational goals. It is conducted through one-on-one interactions, driven by data from multiple perspectives, and based on mutual trust and respect. The organization, an executive, and the executive coach work in partnership to achieve maximum learning and impact (Ennis et al. 2003, p. 20).
Coaching can happen in any field including a work place, business or as an individual. In actual fact, everyone needs a coach. You might be a CEO, a student, leaders, a coach is essential in your life. Dr. Dumisani Magadlela, an executive coach and leadership trainer says:
“Today’s globalized businesses, multi-national corporations, organisations or companies, managers require ‘eyes at the back of their heads’. In other words, they need to be in more places and handle far more complex and multiple scenarios than ever before. These leaders are people with their own families, communities, and beliefs and value systems.
Executive coaching has been the secret ingredient in the success of many business, political, and civil society leaders for decades now. Increasingly, astute leaders in all walks of life are engaging certified coaches as part of their ‘wise counsel’ or as ‘thinking partners’ to help them make sound business and personal decisions” In an interview with a youth leader, blogger and writer, Thula Ndlovu he said that “coaching is about asking pertinent questions, making an individual or leader to think and create answers to their current situation. They might be caught in a thicket of problems, but the coach helps them to be disentangled and find the best way out” Thula, further pointed out that coaching is a great tool for leadership as it makes the leaders more responsible and accountable for their own results. He said it “governs, mentors, provides wise counsel”.
In recent years we have seen the growth of the success coaching industry and we have seen the rise of executive coaches, life coaches and business coaches. These are certified people, who follow guidelines and have been trained on how to make people have positive results by asking proper questions. They provide clarity and direction, increased productivity, motivate and more productivity. Basically a coach is a person who wants the best out of people.
One of the models that is used extensively used in the coaching industry is called the GROW Model. This is a tool that can be used at individual or corporate level. GROW is an acronym for Goals, Reality, Options and Will.
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Goals What are your goals in life? What would you want to achieve? You don’t need to just walk in life your life without goals. If you don’t have goals, you may fall for anything. For example, some people may use you just to fulfil their personal goals. Your goals define your target. This could be a short, medium or long time target. When you have goals, it’s clear to define and assess your results. Most people would rather bump into a life that they have not planned for. One of the crucial things I need to know before I conduct any coaching session is to whether you have goals. In my personal surveys that I carry out when coaching, I have since discovered that most people fail just because they don’t know where they are going. It is when they hit on a wall that they wake up to the awareness of their wrong road.
Realities In the grow model, this defines and clarifies your current situation. For example, let’s say your goal is to pass your Ordinary Level with straight ‘A’s, the question you should ask your self is: What is my current pass? What grades do I have? It also works if you are to succeed in your finances. Your Goal might be that you want to be a millionaire in five years. The question becomes; how much do you have now? Or how much are you currently earning now? How my dollars do you need to make in a month for you to be the next millionaire in five years? What progress have you made so far? If you are a leader or an entrepreneur, what has contributed to your success/ failure? What skills or knowledge do you have? What progress have you made since the start of your business? What is biggest stream of income in that business?
Options Now, that you know your current reality, what options do have? What could you do to achieve your results? What expertise or help do you need for you to achieve your goals? What can I do differently, to have better results in my business? In this case you have to table all possible options at your stake for you to achieve best results. For example if you have not been doing well in your schools grades you might need extra lesions, cut down on other things and concentrate more on your books, surround yourself with right people.
Will Now, the options are tabled for you to excel in your goals, but that is not enough. What will you do to get your results? You have to be regimented to get what you want! This digs into the level of your commitment. Some people simply fail in life because they are not committed to doing what they know they should do.
Take those small, but important steps right away. Put dates as when you are going to start and stick to those dates. Identify people that are going to help you along the way. This is the real deal! Be motivated work on your craft. Dedication, determination, and your drive become an important ingredient in this part.
Parting Point: An Author of over twelve books, Rodwell Harinagoni says, “A fast runner like Bolt who will run faster than most guys on an average day does not ever think of doing athletics without a coach. Although life coaching is different from sport coaching, it is suicidal to think that you can be really successful without guidance from a coach”
Jonah Nyoni is an author, success coach and leadership trainer. He is the author of Inspiration for Success and Success Within Reach. Email: [email protected]. Twitter@jonahnyoni.
