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How can learning to coach enhance my leadership role in my business, my work, my family, or my sphere of influence?
    By Abe Brown of the Certified Coaches Federation

Every one of us is in a leadership role in different areas of life. We naturally desire to make a positive and abundant impact upon those we lead. Wanting to enhance that leadership role is normal, and it is healthy. Coaching is a natural tool to enhance that impact. It is the path that serious people take to reach their goals. Coaching is also a tool to have a “purposeful relationship” with people around the following:

- Coaching is Connecting - As you connect with people, you listen deeply. Many people have not really been listened to for a long time. By listening, you become their safe harbor.

- Coaching is Collaborating - It is difficult to help a person get where they need to go without locating exactly where they are currently. As a result of your connecting and listening, you begin the process of locating exactly where a person is at. Once you locate where a person is right now, and help them to clarify their goals, you can begin to collaborate with them about how you can partner together to move them to their ultimate destination.

- Coaching is Crafting - Through your collaboration you begin to work with them to craft a precise strategy for achieving their goals and actualizing their dreams. An abundant world awaits if we plan our goals, and then work our plan. Ken Blanchard said, “I believe providing feedback is the most cost-effective strategy for improving performance and instilling satisfaction.” In other words, the feedback we provide through our coaching helps people realize more abundance than they would have without our coaching.

- Coaching is Caring - As a coach, you do what you do because you care for people. You see the potential in your business partner, co-workers, family and friends, and you want to help them achieve it. We all have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. A coach helps measure ones performance against their strengths instead of against someone else’s.

Buddha said: “Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” All of us need to be coached…but we also need develop our potential to coach others. This will not only enhance the success of those we lead, but also, it will enhance our success. Be a coach today!

Interested in becoming an effective coach? Contact Abe Brown, Certified Master Coach Trainer & Regional Vice President for the Certified Coaching Federation at 403.389.1190. www.certifiedcoachesfederation.com