http://www.razflections.com/2010/03/coachability.html Reflections on Business, Life, and Pursuing your Purpose Sun, 20 May 2012 15:02:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.razflections.com/2010/03/coachability.html/comment-page-1#comment-799 Raz Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:12:30 +0000 http://razflections.com/?p=2416#comment-799 @Melissa, thanks. @Deborah, great thoughts and stories, thanks for sharing...Really good stuff. Agree that the trust/respect is way helpful, though maybe there are a few levels of "coachability", one is the level that can be obtained through people that you do trust and respect (but this is a far smaller pool of people) and the second is having enough confidence and wisdom to be able to be coachable from anybody--regardless of your trust or respect from them. The latter is SUCH a trickier issue, b/c some people don't give the coaching w/ clean motives OR it might not even be accurate. You have given some more layers to think about. :) @Melissa, thanks.
@Deborah, great thoughts and stories, thanks for sharing…Really good stuff. Agree that the trust/respect is way helpful, though maybe there are a few levels of “coachability”, one is the level that can be obtained through people that you do trust and respect (but this is a far smaller pool of people) and the second is having enough confidence and wisdom to be able to be coachable from anybody–regardless of your trust or respect from them. The latter is SUCH a trickier issue, b/c some people don’t give the coaching w/ clean motives OR it might not even be accurate. You have given some more layers to think about.

]]> http://www.razflections.com/2010/03/coachability.html/comment-page-1#comment-796 Melissa Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:31:07 +0000 http://razflections.com/?p=2416#comment-796 Well said, Raz. Well said, Raz.

]]> http://www.razflections.com/2010/03/coachability.html/comment-page-1#comment-795 Deborah Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:57:08 +0000 http://razflections.com/?p=2416#comment-795 YES!!! Totally relate to this one, Raz. Having competed in athletics and been in leadership programs in the past, I had to get that the only one who was going to be able to see my blind spots was the coach. It was hard to hear some the the things that were being said, and sometimes I had to risk looking foolish to get the result I wanted [like getting out of the pool in the middle of practice and having to do somersaults by the side on a mat until I figured out how to do a flipturn! ouch!....it worked though] One of the things I notice about our community in the North West...we are too damn polite!! We tell people what they want to hear, don't want to ruffle feathers and want to respect everyone's individuality. Well guess what???? The fact is people need direct, straightforward feedback [COACHING]. But first they need to be COACHABLE to receive it. The 2 ingredients necessary for this to happen are 1. Trust and 2. Respect. Maybe it's just me? Has anyone else noticed this? YES!!! Totally relate to this one, Raz. Having competed in athletics and been in leadership programs in the past, I had to get that the only one who was going to be able to see my blind spots was the coach. It was hard to hear some the the things that were being said, and sometimes I had to risk looking foolish to get the result I wanted [like getting out of the pool in the middle of practice and having to do somersaults by the side on a mat until I figured out how to do a flipturn! ouch!....it worked though]
One of the things I notice about our community in the North West…we are too damn polite!! We tell people what they want to hear, don’t want to ruffle feathers and want to respect everyone’s individuality. Well guess what???? The fact is people need direct, straightforward feedback [COACHING]. But first they need to be COACHABLE to receive it. The 2 ingredients necessary for this to happen are 1. Trust and 2. Respect.
Maybe it’s just me? Has anyone else noticed this?

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