Coach yourself

By Linda Julian

Successful professionals are tuning in to the benefits of coaching, including in business development and client relationships skill sets.  

But whether you’ve yet formed an effective relationship with a mentor and coach, you will always have much to gain from your constant companion with heaps of coaching potential:  you.

Self-coaching is based on:

• being open to the possibility for, and benefits of, improvement
• considering our behavioral options
• analysing what works  -  for us and for others
• thinking about how these approaches might best be applied in a range of situations
• selecting behavioral options to create a mental “game plan” for a future challenge
• actively choosing to deploy your carefully crafted “game plan”.

The next eTip will give you some more ideas on how to put self-coaching into practice.