Confidence. It comes from trusting yourself – your ability to learn, to believe in your capability and to trust your judgment.
It does not come from being perfect.
To be self-confident in coaching is to trust the process and your ability to facilitate it and engage successfully with your client.
A self-confident coach rises to new challenges, seizes opportunities, deals with difficult situations, and take responsibility should something require it. AND LEARNS FROM THEM.
No one is immune to what other people think. In coaching this is the single biggest obstacle to masterful coaching.
But to get to mastery you have to first master self- confidence from the inside out, rather than the outside in.
Yes, feedback of others is important and helpful but it can’t be the dominant factor. We must first go internally and ask ourselves what we notice and then check out what a mentor coach has to say.
We fill our own reserves of esteem and confidence this way and then we can add the thoughts of another – not the other way around.
Too much dependence on external validation is exhausting. It’s like a performance that never ends.
I encourage coaches to embrace vulnerability. As well-known researcher and author Brene Brown says, “The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time.”
And that’s what I ask of my mentees. Show up authentically. Be courageous. Vulnerable. And you will be a confident coach in no time.
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