Life and Personality Development can be the most complex coaching theme because each person is unique. Life is an evolving project. We must make it happen. Coaching assists people in making choices that make them happy. There are no right or wrong answers, though. There are only choices but the coach does not make choices for the client. He/she facilitates the process. Each person is unique, and requires coaching intervention that responds to such uniqueness. The coach assists clients in reflecting on their personal values, health, life styles, etc. He/she may use tools like Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to help the client develops self awareness, self management, social awareness, and relationship management, etc. The coach may also facilitate the insights into personal branding and image building.
Youth Development: Coaching the youth does not mean taking over and running their lives. It is about creating the opportunity for them to engage with themselves and their peers. They are helped to make sense of all the pressures of life. The coach is there to challenge and interest them in their development journey.
The youth are the leaders of the future. They deserve to be treated like we would treat any candidate of a succession planning in any organization, institution, and company. Their leadership programmes could take a specialist dimension, for example entrepreneurship development. The majority of the youth respond positively to the coaching programmes dedicated to the entrepreneurship development. Today entrepreneurship opportunities for the youth are mostly in the technology sector. The fourth industrial revolution is the cause of this. Entrepreneurship is the most direct option to employment for the youth. It is important for the youth to make a shift and consider it not as a means of survival but an opportunity to innovate solutions that mitigate the challenges in the society. The coaches must challenge the youth to explore many options about their future. We do not expect them to jump certain stages of their development and become adults too soon. They must enjoy their life journey. However the business case for early youth leadership and entrepreneurship development is very strong. We are laying foundation for their future responsibilities as entrepreneurs and leaders in the society.
Entrepreneurship coaching is a kind of a business coaching but it focuses on the unique businessperson called an entrepreneur. An entrepreneur identifies challenges, sources solutions, products, services and create value.
Whereas the coach does not have to have practiced entrepreneurship, he/she must understand the context in which an entrepreneurship coaching takes place. The clear objective is to produce or facilitate the development of an entrepreneur and enterprise through coaching. That is what Entrepreneurship Development Coaching is all about. The proof of a successful entrepreneurship development coaching is a functioning enterprise and a highly capable entrepreneur. The approach and tools that the coach uses are informed by the stage at which the entrepreneur and the enterprise are in their life cycles.
Coaching a start-up is not the same as coaching a seasoned entrepreneur who is looking at growing the market share, renewal and diversification of the product or service offerings. The coaching methods may be the same, but the approach must respond to the circumstances facing the client (coachee). The entrepreneur is challenged to master the logical steps in exploring and resolving the problems.
Celebrity Status Management: Someone is referred to as a celebrity because he/she is being celebrated by the society. There is something unique or particular that distinguishes this person from the society. People do not necessarily know why they are celebrities. They have not interrogated their distinguishing factor and whether they would like to be associated with it or not. So, being referred to as a celebrity is subjective. It depends on the standard the society applies. It is important to know that you can choose to be a normal person irrespective of how the society sees you. You choose to remain who you are. It is a choice you must make. Being a celebrity has its own pressures and risks. You give away your privacy; have personal safety and security risks to cope with; loses touch with reality; removing oneself from ordinary people; temptation to looking down at people; being aloof; misplaced self-worth; attracting wrong friends (and attention); developing fake identity, etc.
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The Insights Into Coaching
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