25 Guidelines for Professional Coaches by Manoj Sharma
January 27, 2007
1. The best way for a professional coach to coach is to first coach oneself.
2. Coach with compassion and seek to elevate minds through the principles of professional coaching.
3. Put the coaching before any personal gain and keep in mind the immediate, sustainable and scalable consequences of your thoughts, words and actions.
4. Remember professional coaching in its multitude of forms and domains of applications is a service to your world.
5. Be generous with your time, resources and energy and boundless opportunities to enrich lives through professional coaching will appear.
6. Each coachee and fellow professional coach has a different view of circumstances, people, events and ideas, this is an opportunity for you to examine yourself too.
7. To elevate minds is to be at your best. Being at your best requires you to keep your focus on your coachee’s benefits and the coaching.
8. A professional coach is most powerful when congruent with what he or she coaches. Congruency at a high level based on the principle of service leads to lasting financial and non-financial wealth.
9. Professional coaches with lasting financial and non-financial wealth never feel the need to think, speak and act with ill intention towards another. This naturally leads to fulfillment in your world.
10. When you live in a fulfilled world the nitty-gritty will take care of itself and you can be of service as a professional coach at a higher level.
11. The duty of a professional coach is to focus on the welfare of the coachee. Do your absolute best for the coachee with the coachee’s interest in mind, while giving the coachee complete autonomy of choice.
12. A professional coach is dignified in his or her professional and personal dealings, living as a fine legal, ethical and moral example. Through this a professional coach brings out the best in others.
13. Always seek the truth while appreciating your and another’s truth.
14. Appreciate your point of view, the points of views of others and see things from a view point. To do this take yourself out of the equation to the best of your present ability.
15. Do not act in haste, take your time. Everything happens at the right time, in the right place for the right person. This however is not an excuse for inaction. When faced with two possibilities; one in which inaction leads to a disaster and another in which action leads to an equal disaster, always take the course of action.
16. Judge your coachee only after you have judged yourself.
17. Compassion in harshness is the rule, when harshness is required.
18. Create time for reflection, for both your and your coachees. This will allow both to move forward powerfully.
19. Sympathize. You do not have to condone. At best condemn the act not the person. Use any such situations as an opportunity to have the coachee recreate their world.
20. Maintain your professional and personal integrity. Not doing so will cause a sure disintegration.
21. It is okay to keep silent when necessary and let your silence speak volumes.
22. Revere your masters – these are the people you have learnt from and keep holding them in high regard no matter how high you rise.
23. Seek out and keep the company of great people.
24. Produce excellent results remembering that performance is the key to fulfillment and profits. While setting out to produce excellent results, always put the doing ahead of the having. Through this act alone you will automatically be a great professional coach.
25. Seek wisdom. You and your coachees are not the first to experience lives trials and tribulations; billions have done so before you. Recognizing this truth will allow you to gain from it.
All of the above will assist you to live a wonderful life. This however, is not to be expected but to be created and appreciated.
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