Coaching Handbook: An Action Kit for Trainers and Managers

Development “ core values and beliefs

Given that coaching is about development, we believe that successful coaches are people who believe the following:

• All people are capable of development.

• People can only change if they want to and are ready to.

• What others believe about our potential can influence the level of our success.

• What we believe about our own potential is directly linked to our success.

• How we define success will have a direct impact upon what we achieve.

• We limit our potential by having limiting beliefs, eg believing that certain things are not possible due to environmental or situational constraints.

• People will only learn when they are truly engaged with the process.

• It is possible to learn from everything that we do, but learning only happens when we reflect and plan for next time (see Kolb s learning theory in Chapter 2).

• People don t need to be experts before they can help someone learn “ in fact sometimes it is better if they are not as they will not be stuck in the ˜right way of doing things.

• In order to help others develop, we must continue to develop ourselves .