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Coaching in Edenvale

Your Coaching relationship is one that questions you, challenges your way of thinking and being, and exposes you to different ways. How we integrate what we once knew or how we once were with what we know now and who we have become is transformation. Most people still do not fully understand the concept of learning. They see this as an event something that happens in isolation or almost external to themselves, but this is not the case. We are all lifelong learners whether we recognise this or not. When we look at the rate of change we currently experience, the demands that we live with on a daily basis, our hunger to succeed, combined with our increasingly isolated lifestyle it makes the use of a coaching relationship paramount to our success and it becomes imperative that we use this relationship as the foundation of our support network. It should be taken into consideration that before beginning any transformation you need to be clear on a few things. These seem really simple at face value but become our stumbling blocks, our derailers if not carefully considered. These include defining your journey, knowing what climate you need to sustain your transformation, understanding the full impact, and finally knowing who will travel alongside you. The Coaching relationship is a powerful tool to help you carefully consider and incorporate each of these aspects into your Coaching plan. This good place to start, open your mind, dream big and design your perfect life. Secondly we need to identify the climate needed to create and support our transformation. In what environment will our perfect life be realised and reinforced. Surround yourself with the things that speak to or symbolise your perfect life. You will also be able to identify upfront if the change is too big to take on all at once and how to then break it down to make it more manageable and attainable for you. Your relationships need to be carefully explored as you will be surrounded by a collection of people. There are those that have a vested interest in seeing you succeed, those that will sabotage you because they do not want you to succeed or feel threatened by your success. For successful transformation it is critical that you are able to identify those that really support you and those that don’t including our own inner saboteur. Knowing what or who you allow to derail you, when you get nearer to realising your greatness (and we all have greatness within us) is a first step in understanding how to overcome or at least side step these until you become strong enough within yourself to leapfrog them. The Coaching House believes that Learning plays a key role in organisational transformation, and in ensuring that organisations are able to harness the power of their People quickly to gain or keep a competitive advantage. We assist our clients in differentiating between Learning and Training. Learning is seen as strategic to organisational transformation as it assesses and builds the competence needed for the envisioned future. This is in contrast to a training function which concerns itself with retrospectively developing skills to fit into your transforming organisation thus resulting in the focus being placed on trying to develop competence as opposed to being able to harness the innovative power of a competent and collaborative workforce. It is through this lens that The Coaching House assists our clients in developing learning strategies equipping them to take advantage of workforce and market changes and to effectively overcome the challenges posed by talent shortages.