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To be successful, coaching asks certain things of the individual, all of which begin with intention....
• Focus-on one's self, the tough questions, the hard truths-and one's success
• Observation-the behaviors and communications of others
• Listening-to one's intuition, assumptions, judgments, and to the way one sounds when one speaks
• Self discipline-to challenge existing attitudes, beliefs and behaviors and to develop new ones which serve one's goals in a superior way
• Style-leveraging personal strengths and overcoming limitations in order to develop a winning style
• Decisive actions-however uncomfortable, and in spite of personal insecurities, in order to reach for the extraordinary
• Compassion-for one's self as he or she experiments with new behaviors, experiences setbacks-and for others as they do the same
• Humor-committing to not take one's self so seriously, using humor to lighten and brighten any situation
• Personal control-maintaining composure in the face of disappointment and unmet expectations, avoiding emotional reactivity
• Courage-to reach for more than before, to shift out of being fear based in to being in abundance as a core strategy for success, to engage in continual self examination, to overcome internal and external obstacles
• How can the success of the coaching process be measured? Measurement may be thought of in two distinct ways. First, there are the external indicators of performance: measures which can be seen and measured in the individual's or team's environment. Second, there are internal indicators of success: measures which are inherent within the individual or team members being coached and can be measured by the individual or team being coached with the support of the coach. Ideally, both external and internal metrics are incorporated.
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