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We are fully convinced that each person has unique gifts, abilities, and talents. As a result of having these gifts, abilities, and talents, each one of us is created with a unique, individual “calling” that we need to pursue.
In his book, Man In The Windmill: Perceptions, Choices, and Pursuing your Calling, Jack describes a man who finds himself suddenly caught up in the raging blades of a large windmill – literally spinning out of control. In an allegorical sense, many people today similarly find their lives “spinning” at a job or occupation that isn’t really “them”. They feel tired, helpless, trapped, and out of control. Is there hope for those people to stop the insanity, find the life they long for, and get back on track? We truly believe there is!
Randall Resources offers personal life / career coaching services to assist clients in their efforts to fully discover, understand, and actively pursue God’s unique calling for them and their individual roles as leaders.
Contact us to setup a FREE 30-minute Complimentary Conversation to find out if Personal Life / Career Coaching is a fit for you!
What Is Coaching?
Coaching is an ongoing conversation that empowers a person or team to fully live out their purpose and calling in their life and profession. The goal of coaching is for you to discover new things about yourself and take action to reshape your life around that learning.
The coaching relationship is expected to produce insights, greater personal awareness, changed behaviors, actions, and ultimately results that satisfy the client. Much is expected of you: to evaluate, reason, imagine, decide, and implement.
- Coaching is about you – your goals, your learning, and your growth.
- Coaching is about learning – rather than teaching. You are the expert on your life. Your coach uses coaching techniques such as active listening, open questions, encouragement, challenging a bit, and always remaining supportive. All to assist you in discovering insights and taking next steps.
- Coaching is about action – your action. Each session you will determine 1-3 actions steps you will take before the next session. You may be surprised how quickly you progress toward your goals.
- Coaching is about all of you – not just your work or ministry. We all know that changing old habits and thought patterns are difficult. Your coach recognizes these patterns and will support you as you change and grow.
What Coaching Isn’t
It’s not therapy. Although many of the communication techniques are the same, like active listening, reflecting, use of questions, limited advice giving, etc., therapy focuses on the past to bring healing and unblock a person to move ahead. Coaching is future and action-oriented, for people who are basically clear of psychological and emotional issues.
It’s not mentoring. Mentors are experts in a particular field who seek to pass on their expertise to a person. Mentors provide knowledge, advice, guidance, correction, and encouragement to people who are newer and junior—by experience if not by position or age. They may use some coaching techniques, but mentors usually play the roles of advisor and teacher to guide and impart knowledge and wisdom.
It’s not training. In training, the trainer sets the agenda. Change comes from outside the participant, via the trainer. In coaching, you set the agenda. Coaches use adult learning principles of self-discovery to motivate change from within you.
It’s not authoritarian. Did you have a tough sports coach who used to yell at you and make you do a million push-ups if you made a mistake? That’s not coaching. Your coach will push you beyond what you might think you can do, but will always be supportive. You are in control. The responsibility to decide and act is yours.
Why Does Coaching Work?
Coaching works because it brings out your best – what God created in you! Coaches believe you can create your own best answers and are trained to support you in that process.
Specifically, this is what your coach will do during coaching sessions:
- Be fully present. Coaching conversations take place via in-person, phone, or Zoom sessions.
- Listen. Your story is central. Coaches fully engage in what you are saying.
- Ask questions. Coaches use questions to stimulate your thinking and creativity. Questions are about possibilities and the future.
- Encourage. Everyone needs encouragements, and usually we don’t get enough. Your coach will hold up your vision, your progress, and your efforts.
- Incorporate assessments. As needed or requested, coaches uses various assessment tools for reflective and objective analysis.
- Facilitate while letting you lead. Coaches facilitate your learning and problem solving. Yet, they are never fully leading – you are, with your agenda and your approach.
Why Use a Coach?
The reasons people want coaching are endless, and as unique as the person.
“You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.”
—Andy Stanley, The Next Generation
Here are a few examples that motivate people to use a coach:
- To make significant changes
- To better deal with uncertainty
- To make better decisions
- To set better goals
- To reach goals faster
- To grow spiritually
- To become financially more stable
- To get ahead personally
- To have a collaborative partner
- To improve their relationships
- To make a bigger impact on the world
- To be a better leader
- To simplify their lives
- To reduce stress
- To keep up with the speed of life
- To address transitions in location and employment.
Randall Resources offers personal life / career coaching services to assist clients in their efforts.
Contact us to setup a FREE 30-minute Complimentary Conversation to find out if Personal Life / Career Coaching is a fit for you!