Choosing Your Ideal Coach

The genesis of any coaching journey is making a decision to seek professional coaching. This typically happens when you have reached a point in your self-development journey that garners the need for an objective perspective and new empowering methods to help you reach your next level. Choosing a personal coach is an important process that involves consulting with different coaches to determine which one is the best fit. The following steps are designed to help you jumpstart the process.

1: Determine your ‘why’ behind seeking a coach

Coaching is a big investment of not only money, but your time because it requires you to put in work outside of the sessions to produce effective results. Establishing a plausible ‘why’ will help you stay motivated throughout the coaching process. Your ‘why’ will act as a constant reminder that you are seeking a coach after determining the need to partner with someone who can provide the insight, tools, and strategies that you are missing. Think of it as your guiding light.

2: Craft a list of attributes you want in a coach

Next, after solidifying your ‘why’ it is imperative to make a list of attributes you want in your ideal coach. You are encouraged not to make an exhaustive list, instead a list of 5-10 must have attributes will suffice. Attributes on your list may include authentic, effective, compassionate, non-judgmental, etc. This will act as a reference guide when you are consulting with different coaches to determine the right fit. 

3: Perform an initial consultation with at least 3 coaches

Your well-being and self-development in the wrong hands can prove to be detrimental. Stressing the importance of auditioning at least 3 coaches stems from knowing that coaches differ in coaching styles, methods, and strategies. Performing the pre-work of crafting your ‘why’ and a list of attributes will make the process of securing your ideal coach go more smoothly. While consulting, identify if their approach speaks to the personal outcomes you want to materialize, check off the attributes on your list that the coach embodies, and ask poignant questions to ensure you are choosing the best coach. Keep in mind that you can also craft a list of questions ahead of time and if after choosing a coach you discover they are not the best fit for you then you have the power to choose someone else.

Joy Gem: After applying these steps, book a free Coaching Connect Call. You may discover that I am the ideal coach you have been hoping for!