If you hired me as your personal coach, what would you expect from me? How do you think I would help you? When our sessions were finished, what do you expect to have been changed about your life?

When you hire someone as a personal coach, there are expectations involved. You expect that your coach to get you from Point A (where you are now) to Point B (where you want to go). Should you have high expectations, or should you keep your expectations low to avoid any disappointment? No matter what your goals and how optimistic you are (or pessimistic), there are things your should expect from your personal coaching sessions.

What to Expect From Your Personal Coach

• Framework
• Action
• Resources

Within the framework of the coaching sessions, you should expect a valuable, impartial perspective, empathy, respect, care for your needs, and motivation to help you reach your goals. Having the proper framework should also allow you to vent your frustrations from time to time without judgment or distraction. Your sessions should also be provided in complete confidentiality. The framework of the coaching practice and of your sessions should be designed for your benefit.

Your personal coach should also provide plenty of “action” in the sessions. Action includes role play situations, positive challenges, brainstorm sessions, and the creation of a plan or a road map to get you where you want to go. The action for any coaching session should not be instructional, but should be filled with inquiries that help you determine their own solutions.

Every good coach will have a wealth of information and tools to use for the benefit of their clients. These tools are often highly specialized and not easily found without the help of a coach. Coaches attend programs, training sessions, seminars, and mentor sessions to gain more knowledge and skills to better serve their clients. They also further their education through books, webinars, DVDs, and online resources. Coaches improve through continual education, and this improvement means that their clients will reap the benefits of a knowledgeable and highly trained coach.

Your personal coach is concerned with both your present and your future. The past may be used as background to determine how to get to your future, but is generally not part of the equation. An individual or a coach seeking transformation does not look to the past for answers. This is one of the differences between coaching and therapy. A therapist is concerned with your past and uses it as a diagnostic tool to determine the best ways to ameliorate your present and future. A therapist asks questions about the past to diagnose conditions and problems. A coach may ask a few questions about the past for background and context, but the inquiries are mostly concerned about the present and especially about the future.

Your personal coach should understand that there are high expectations. If I were your personal coach, I would utilize all my talents, knowledge, and skills to meet your expectations and help you find the pot of life’s gold at the end of your personal rainbow.

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Fred Philips
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