Why Coaching?

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Why Coaching?

You are the practice leader. Working with a coach can add a valuable set of learning tools in your practice leader toolkit. A coach can help you match the right solutions to the challenges you may face in growing your practice.

As a provider, you might not have given much thought to being a leader, because you probably started your practice with the grand idea of helping people, not developing yourself as a leader. But the truth is, as a business owner, you are in the leadership business, and rather than resist it, you could develop your skills as a leader and give your staff the tools they need to support the growth of your business and your overall mission.

Below are four compelling reasons for practice owners and their team to work with a coach.

1. Establish a clear vision, and get your team engaged with that vision.

If you have struggled to motivate your team and staff members, know that you are not alone. Building a strong vision and goals, and helping your team connect with that vision will increase everyone’s success and fulfillment. (And we know that happy staff are loyal and productive.)

2. Honest and timely feedback on effectiveness of systems and leadership.

You need an unbiased truth-teller, and an objective view of how your leadership contributes to your overall success. Coaching will help you build on your strengths while your practice manager and support staff learn to take charge of their contribution to the success and growth of your practice.

3. You need someone to guide you through reflection and self-analysis.

Anyone who has worked with a coach will tell you that the best part of having a coach is the ability to clear the decks on a regular basis to think and strategize without distractions. This accelerates your development as a leader by encouraging you to reflect and grow, and your coach will offer you tips, tools and the benefit of the breadth and depth of their experience.

4. Help with improving your ability to anticipate, strategize and stay on track.

Maximize your practice potential by improving work performance and team effectiveness. With the clear vision, feedback and appropriate delegation of responsibilities, each person will gain insight and will experience mindset shifts that lead to new behaviors and better results in all areas of growth: self, team and business-management. This encourages everyone to think bigger, act more courageously, and realize greater possibilities.

If you want to achieve beyond your wildest dreams (or beyond the limitations you can't seem to surpass) then why not schedule a one-hour complimentary Practice Assessment Strategy Session with me to see if we can crack the code? One hour can change everything. 

I Believe I Can Fly! Or...Not

It is said that our beliefs and thoughts shape our experience. If this is true, and I believe it is, then I pose this question: 

Do your thoughts and beliefs about success, your abilities and what is really possible help or impede your progress toward your goals and dreams?

Before you answer that, I will break it down by asking another question. Have you ever examined your belief system? I am not talking about your moral, spiritual or religious beliefs necessarily, but what you believe to be true ABOUT YOU. In one of my sessions with my coach, I was a little shocked, and slightly amused (more like horrified), at what I actually believed to be true. When I heard the words pass my lips, I was completely dumbfounded. 

How could I, a self-aware, positive-Polly coach have such skewed beliefs? 

Well, I learned that I held these beliefs because I had never slowed down long enough to even know they existed. However, something interesting happened; once I spoke the words and thoughts out with my coach, I realized that they were pure garbage, but had been swimming around in my mind, taking up valuable space, for years. No wonder I felt like I was struggling, even when I wasn’t.

So let’s circle-back to the original question, and I will break it down even more, by asking more questions, because, well, I’m a coach and that’s what I do. This process of slowing down - gaining insight and clarity - works like magic in helping clear the pathway toward faster, more abundant, and exquisite fulfillment. So stay with me, and grab a pen and paper (or electronic device if you’re fancy).

The original question: Do your thoughts and beliefs about success, your abilities and what is really possible help or impede your progress toward your goals and dreams? 

Now becomes 3 questions: 

1. What are 3 beliefs you hold about success (yours, that of others, and success in general)? 
2. What are 3 beliefs you hold about your abilities? (skills, strengths, habits, potential/limitations)
3. What are 3 beliefs you hold about what is really possible? (can you really fly? Is it really possible to meet your financial and career goals?)

Without self-judgment (we do enough of that already, don’t you think?) go back and look at your answers. Next to each answer, write whether each of those beliefs is Helpful (H) or Impeding (I) in your progress toward your goals and dreams. This is where it can get tricky for the typical high-achiever…DO NOT JUDGE or try to “fix” this. Just observe. Get curious. If you start to feel anxious, upset or frustrated, say my favorite word in any language, “Hmmmmmmm.” This will pause you long enough to stop the monkey dance in your brain, and will give you a moment to breathe, stop what you are doing and just observe. If you must, ask yourself, “I wonder….what is the exact opposite belief? How does that feel?” and then move on.

Will there be work to be done after you have examined your beliefs and perhaps encounter some that do not serve you in reaching your highest aspirations? Likely, yes. Here’s the deal, though: by raising your awareness, you are taking your power into your own hands rather than leaving your power in the hands of your ego (the “voice of reason” in your head trying to keep you “safe” by holding you back from really reaching your highest self - your genius).

Once you have taken some time to examine your beliefs and get curious about them, you will be better equipped to dis-create/crush/annihilate what no longer serves you and replace with upgraded, healthier, more successful thoughts and beliefs. Once there, you now you can update your story and write your new vision of success. Go you!

I wish you the best of success as you sort out your belief systems and choose to replace impeding beliefs with helpful beliefs, one at a time.

Blessings. Gratitude. Love.