Terri Levine on The Myths About Coaching
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Terri Levine on The Myths About Coaching
1. Coaching is a new profession
For sure it is not… it has been around as long as the human race with great coaches like Socrates, Olympic coaches, religious icons worldwide and other philosophers.
There is nothing new about people assisting people to greatness and the word coach has been around since the early civilization.
2. Most coaches have a full-time practice.
Most coaches do their work part-time or integrated into other work such as consulting, training, teaching, workshops, writing, speaking, etc. Coaching clients is part of what they do.
3. Mental health care practitioners don’t make good coaches.
Oh yes they do! They are incredible listeners and already have many of the basic coaching tools of powerful questioning, sharing observations, speaking the truth, co-creating relationships and come from a place of caring and empathy with their clients. They are way ahead of the game.
Continued in her article The Myths About Coaching.
