Coaching for the Over 50s London
One-to-one coaching, with its emphasis on individual development, unlocking your unique potential, and overcoming real and perceived obstacles, can be a highly effective tool for developing and sustaining personal and professional development. Regardless of your age, personality, situation or perceived problems it can help you achieve real and sustained change, as this article explains.
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Coaching for the Over 50s
Coaching has many and various definitions, one of the best being ‘a process of unlocking an individual’s potential to maximize their own performance’. In simple terms it works by helping and supporting you to achieve your goals in your way, rather than by prescriptively teaching and telling you how.
Coaching started off in the sports arena (where it continues to thrive), but in recent decades has extended into life coaching, executive coaching, and all number of specialist areas relating to the particular issues being addressed.
Far from being some sort of fashion or fad, coaching is now recognised as an incredibly effective process. Most of those who have been coached genuinely report “it was the best investment I ever made”.
There’s very little in life that can’t be helped by coaching. Regardless of the specific issue(s) involved, it can help you:
clarify your goals
decide the steps to take to achieve those goals
be clear about what or who might hinder your progress in achieving them
be sure you’re pursuing the right goals
maintain the motivation to keep you moving in the right direction
What coaching isn’t – but which it is often confused with – is either counselling or therapy. If you have serious problems with, for example, depression, alcohol or drugs you must seek specialist help.
Generally, coaching works by providing support in three different ways:
1. Clarity and focus: Coaching helps you decide exactly what it is that you really want. Many of the difficulties people experience with moving forward and achieving their ambitions come from lack of clarity and precision about what their goals actually are. Until you can put your goal into words and see clearly what you need to do (or stop doing) in order to achieve it, it’s often impossible to change.
2. Confidence: Although we may present a brave face many of us suffer from lack of confidence, even at this late stage of life. At times feelings of inadequacy and fear can be crippling, yet as a mature person operating in today’s highly competitive environment, it can be impossible to reveal how we truly feel. Denial leads to increased stress, tension in relationships, and certain types of avoidance behaviour.
3. Objectivity: Unswerving support from someone with no agenda of their own is a particular strength of the coaching relationship. Most of us have no one we can turn to for totally objective help unless the issues we’re dealing with have escalated to such an extent that they have become medical or legal problems. Even then, the assistance we receive may deal with the situation or the symptoms rather than how we feel about things.
Is coaching for you?
Frankly, coaching isn’t for everyone and there are three golden rules that you have to accept for it to be successful. You must:
1. Take the time to understand what coaching is
2. Really want to be coached, and want to change
3. Be prepared to work towards achieving your goals outside the coaching sessions
Any good coach will be prepared to spend time in advance explaining the coaching process and discussing your needs so that you have realistic expectations from the outset.
Coaching, if you’re prepared to commit to the process, can generate remarkable results. But it takes time, energy, and perseverance. Whatever the issue, don’t dismiss coaching because you think you’re too old or can’t change. It simply isn’t true!
Click here for more information about personal development for the over 50s from in my prime.
Coaching started off in the sports arena (where it continues to thrive), but in recent decades has extended into life coaching, executive coaching, and all number of specialist areas relating to the particular issues being addressed.
Far from being some sort of fashion or fad, coaching is now recognised as an incredibly effective process. Most of those who have been coached genuinely report “it was the best investment I ever made”.
There’s very little in life that can’t be helped by coaching. Regardless of the specific issue(s) involved, it can help you:
clarify your goals
decide the steps to take to achieve those goals
be clear about what or who might hinder your progress in achieving them
be sure you’re pursuing the right goals
maintain the motivation to keep you moving in the right direction
What coaching isn’t – but which it is often confused with – is either counselling or therapy. If you have serious problems with, for example, depression, alcohol or drugs you must seek specialist help.
Generally, coaching works by providing support in three different ways:
1. Clarity and focus: Coaching helps you decide exactly what it is that you really want. Many of the difficulties people experience with moving forward and achieving their ambitions come from lack of clarity and precision about what their goals actually are. Until you can put your goal into words and see clearly what you need to do (or stop doing) in order to achieve it, it’s often impossible to change.
2. Confidence: Although we may present a brave face many of us suffer from lack of confidence, even at this late stage of life. At times feelings of inadequacy and fear can be crippling, yet as a mature person operating in today’s highly competitive environment, it can be impossible to reveal how we truly feel. Denial leads to increased stress, tension in relationships, and certain types of avoidance behaviour.
3. Objectivity: Unswerving support from someone with no agenda of their own is a particular strength of the coaching relationship. Most of us have no one we can turn to for totally objective help unless the issues we’re dealing with have escalated to such an extent that they have become medical or legal problems. Even then, the assistance we receive may deal with the situation or the symptoms rather than how we feel about things.
Is coaching for you?
Frankly, coaching isn’t for everyone and there are three golden rules that you have to accept for it to be successful. You must:
1. Take the time to understand what coaching is
2. Really want to be coached, and want to change
3. Be prepared to work towards achieving your goals outside the coaching sessions
Any good coach will be prepared to spend time in advance explaining the coaching process and discussing your needs so that you have realistic expectations from the outset.
Coaching, if you’re prepared to commit to the process, can generate remarkable results. But it takes time, energy, and perseverance. Whatever the issue, don’t dismiss coaching because you think you’re too old or can’t change. It simply isn’t true!
Click here for more information about personal development for the over 50s from in my prime.