5 REASONS WHY A COACH MUST ALSO BE A STUDENT

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As a coach, you know better than anybody how important it is to always be learning.
Education, formal and otherwise, is empowering, so people should always make themselves open to furthering their knowledge.
When you’re in the position of a professional, just as a coach is, the sense of authority can get in your head. Nonetheless, no matter how much you know, it’s important to realize that you can always learn so much more.
As a matter of fact, when you start closing your mind to growth, exploration and expansion, you lose your credibility as a coach. Since you push your clients to grow, achieve goals and even get past boundaries they’ve set up for themselves, you should also be constantly improving and fine-tuning your craft. How do you think clients would react if they found out that the last time you read a book on coaching was a decade ago?
To be a credible and effective coach, you need to acknowledge your role as a student as well. Whatever stage of life you might be at, learning and growth are always necessary.
With continued education:
  1. You can continue exploring the wealth of your potential. As you already know, fully achieving your potential is a lifelong process. Opportunities will continue to present themselves to you. By being a student, you learn different ways and make various efforts to grow as an individual, personally, professionally and in other aspects of your life. When you are able to experience this for your own life, you get the conviction that makes you effective in helping your clients explore their potential as well.
  1. You can better prepare yourself for changes and new possibilities. Should you ever feel the need to change directions, be it in the general sense or in terms of your career, continued education will help. Knowledge is powerful. It gives you better insight as you see things from new points of view, and it will certainly prepare you if you decide to practice different approaches or pursue new possibilities based on your new learning.
  1. You can model the mindset of lifelong learning for your clients. You can show them that you’re living proof that it’s good to have a readiness to grow at every opportunity. This emphasizes your eagerness to learn and reinforces your reason for embracing your lifelong role as student. If you’re preaching a growth mindset—something that is useful and beneficial in all areas of life—your clients should see you practice it.
  1. You can benefit your clients with your continued growth. Not only do you give evidence to the advantages of the growth mindset to your clients by making yourself an example, but you also can extend the benefits to them. As you grow and better yourself at what you do, the more effective you will be at helping other people. You will be able to ensure terrific results with your service.
  1. You can keep up with the latest coaching trends. From the very start, somebody intending to embark upon a career as a coach should already internalize this mindset. Learning should be a habit. If you adopt this culture of continued education, you will consistently grow as a person and boost your worth as a professional. Your standards will remain high, and the quality of your service will steadily improve as you coach with new awareness and deeper insight into different circumstances, as well as with a better understanding of challenges and solutions. You will never be behind with your thinking, tools, and strategies.
If you intend to be an excellent coach, you need to invest in continuing professional development, the same way that many of your clients are hiring you for the purpose of improving themselves.
Coaches must be innovative to engage their clients and lend themselves effective. This lifelong learning mindset is definitely essential to a career in coaching. It’s impossible to be sincere and, subsequently, successful in your coaching if you don’t consider yourself a lifelong student.
salma el-shuraf headshotSalma El-Shurafa is an experienced Executive Coach and founder of The Pathway Project (TPP). She is a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation (ICF), a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach from The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and a graduate of CTI’s Co-Active Leadership program. Salma is the first Arab female faculty member of CTI in the region, a certified Agile profile coach and trainer as well as a Cultural Intelligence Certified Advanced Facilitator. She works with a wide variety of individuals, ranging from directors and managers at Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs across various industries, and other professionals.
source: http://coachfederation.org/blog/index.php/8033/

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