Like many of you, our students have a natural affinity for helping people.
Many are parents, teachers, therapists, pastors or other helping professions. They generally hold themselves to high personal standards, and have a strong aptitude for goal setting, and keen sense of self-awareness have all lead them to the coaching profession.
These are the personal qualities that make for the best coaches. With training, practiced techniques and strategies, and trust in the coaching process, your gift for helping others can make for a top-notch coach.
With over 10 years providing coach training, ICA has identified the best ways to determine if you were born to coach and, with training and practice, could serve the world with your skills and innate gifts.
Here they are:
- Keen sense of self-awareness.
- High emotional intelligence.
- Ability to focus on the big picture as well as the important details.
- Heighten communication skills.
- Kind regard, caring and respect for others.
- Creative, innovative and life long learner.
- Perceptive, curious and inquiring.
- Quick study with capacity for deep and wide learning.
- Humble, open, nurturing and grateful to the world.
- View coaching as a calling, an art and a discipline.
- As coaches we are always working on ourselves. We are open to new ideas and philosophies, study coaching seriously and take it seriously. But the bottom line is we care about others and seek a highly effective way to do this – through professional coaching or blending coaching skills to whatever endeavor you undertake.
