Coaching Principles Part Seven - Be Aware of Overwhelm

Coaching has become super popular I have noticed...everyone I come across seems to have completed coach training - which is great, the more the merrier.

Many are drawn to the coaching discipline as they want to help others. I have said this before and I will say it again.  Coaching is about helping people but sometimes the best way to help them is not to help them.

In an effort to be perceived to be a 'good coach' we can sometimes be too helpful.  We want to be considered good at what we do.  We might even take an element of their problems, solutions or actions on ourselves. It is their problem we are helping them to think about.

If you use coaching as part of  your management or leadership style, remember to stick to the principles. Do not let them dump the problem on you as you are then carrying around all their stuff - which becomes a very heavy burden to carry around.

Cartoon: Alan Evans

Take care
Paul