Have you ever started coaching even though your instincts were signalling that this might not be the best fit? Do you ever feel as though you are working harder than the person you are coaching? Do you wish they would step up to the metaphorical plate of deeper thinking?
It can be frustrating, not to mention unfulfilling, when coaching clients don’t play their part in extracting maximum value from coaching. It can hook you into trying even harder to create that value on their behalf.
Your job as coach is not to create value. Your job is to be a catalyst for the creation of value, but not to create value yourself.
Join Clare Norman, MCC as she walks us through the trials and tribulations of coaching readiness.
Speaker: Clare Norman
Clare Norman, Master Certified Coach, is dedicated to enabling people to feel truly seen for who they are. With over 20 years of coaching experience, Clare empowers individuals to find their authentic voice and express their needs, creating a more caring world.
In her work with leaders, Clare challenges the status quo, encouraging a shift towards prioritising people alongside profits. She believes that by developing individuals, we create ripple effects that transform organisations and communities.
Simultaneously, Clare is passionate about elevating the coaching profession. She advocates for higher standards and deeper awareness of coachability, ensuring that both coaches and clients are primed for transformative experiences.
Through her coaching, writing, and thought leadership, Clare is making a lasting impact on individuals, organisations, and the coaching industry at large.
Living in the New Forest, Hampshire with her bloodhound and husband, Clare is a prolific blogger and an award-winning regular feature writer for industry magazines and journals. She is also a popular speaker, often called upon to deliver webinars and keynotes to fellow coaches looking to sharpen their edge.
Overview and content:
This session is about shifting where value is created in coaching – shifting the responsibility for value creation to the thinker. And shifting the responsibility for screening for coachability to the custodians of coaching.
Your responsibility as a coach is to take care of the process so that the thinker can create value themselves, enabling them to access their inner wisdom, connect their own dots, and find answers that match their personality, context, motivations, beliefs and values.
Therefore, the thinker needs to be ready and willing to take that responsibility for creating value. In other words, they need to be ‘coaching ready’.
In this pioneering and sometimes provocative session, Master Coach Clare Norman invites you to consider your influence on every step of the coaching experience before you even get involved right through to closing a coaching programme and beyond.
The seeds of coachability are planted at the outset of an organisation’s commitment to coaching, not at the commencement of the coaching itself.
It takes a village to cultivate coachability. And consistent nurturing by said village of coaching readiness, agency and self-efficacy.
Reclaim the joy you glean from coaching by being more demanding in the screening for and enhancement of coachability.
Added value for participants:
- Define coaching readiness and coachability and their significance
- Identify the stages of the thinker’s experience where coaching readiness and coachability are important
- Identify the role of the stakeholders who play a part in screening for coaching readiness
- Enhance your compatibility call with coaching readiness in mind
- Scrutinise your own coachability
For further information in advance, you can check the following:
Clare’s first book, Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide, is a work of passion and according to Fran Fisher MCC, ’makes a significant contribution to the conscious evolution of the coaching profession, [and] offers a new paradigm for coach mentoring and the continuous personal and professional development of the coach.’
Her second book, The Transformational Coach, enables you to shed the ineffective scripts, trappings and beliefs that a lifetime of personal interactions, professional training and even your parents have taught you, such that you can reset your thinking to a beginner's mentality and so begin a fulfilling and exciting journey to coaching mastery.
And her third book, Cultivating Coachability, sets you and your clients up for success by paying much closer attention to coaching readiness than we might historically have done.
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Date
Tue, Feb. 18, 2025, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Tickets
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