Welcome to my blog! This is my space to tell you what’s happening with Moving Ideas to Action: Active Coaching and Training ~ ACT, my Life and Leadership coaching and Leadership training practice. It’s all about helping you identify your values, establish your goals, develop your game plan, and cheering you on as you reach your SUCCESS!
Coaching truly is magic. You know what you want in life, but sometimes you just have too many ideas to know what to do next. A coach listens to you, while asking clarifying questions and reflecting back what you’ve said. You know the times you’ve said, “I can barely hear myself think,”? Well, that’s what a coach does. A coach helps you hear your thoughts more clearly, so you can understand where you’re going and decide how you want to get there.
So what’s the difference between coaching and therapy? To put it simply, therapy looks at the past or present and asks, “Why?” Coaching looks at the future and asks, “How?” A therapist brings you from needy to functional, while a coach brings you from fine to excellence.
How is a coach different from a consultant? A consultant is hired to look at your operation and to tell you what needs to be done, and can then be hired to do it. A coach, on the other hand, listens to you and reflects back what they’ve heard you say, but you are the one who takes the action.
Time and time again, I’ve listened to people tell their stories and their dreams, and as the coach asks questions to understand more fully, the person suddenly gets a strong realization of the scope of the problem and how they want to deal with it! Empowering? Yes! Exciting? Yes!
And that’s why I’m a coach and facilitator. I love to see the Light of Understanding click on as someone suddenly catches on to a concept. As a corporate trainer and facilitator, I present ideas and lead participants to their own discoveries. As a coach, I can follow them into their lives to help them implement those discoveries. The Light of Understanding shines through their excitement as they fulfill their dreams and create their success.
More thoughts in my next blog session. Come back to hear more!
