Transformative teaching methods… A coach won’t just help you incorporate self-help tips into your life but hold you accountable for the action plan you’ve collaborated on with the goal of keeping you on a path to change. Transformation often inspires doubt, but with your motivational coach by your side cheering you on, you can overcome those speed bumps and keep your growth momentum going.

Coaching in general, is results oriented, generative in nature and requires clients to practice being accountable for what occurs in their lives. It distinguishes a client from the interpretations she has about life in general, herself in particular and about the specific outcome she is wanting. Coaching empowers her to shift those interpretations, which no longer serve her. It also empowers her to practice new ways of being that align her with her desires in order to reach her highest potential. It is transformational in nature because it focuses on the states of being that generate actions, which either move the client closer to her desired outcomes or further away. Shifting how an individual is being, rather than what she is doing, will create transformation, because the way she is being is transferable to every other aspect of her life. The client transforms their perspective, shifting their paradigm to include more, which allows an expanded repertoire of possibilities to exist.

Transformational coaching now, and in the future, is being shaped by what’s gone before. Coaching, per se, still has a relatively young history. However, already we’re waving goodbye to some of the more dinosaur methods of old. Instead, coaching is becoming an increasingly professional endeavour, as it really should. We’re not there yet. There are still lessons to be learned, and changes to be made to transformational coaching itself. The shift is happening, however, and transformational coaching will in time come to simply be ‘coaching’ itself, with all other types falling under its umbrella. See extra details at Transformative coaching.

Connect with the people you lead by using the vision, value and voice model; i.e. communicate an inspiring vision, value people as human beings (not as a means to an end) and give them a voice. Ideally, networking is part of your daily professional activity, not just something you do when you are looking for a job. When it’s time for a career transition, you want your network to be in place already so that you can tap strong, existing professional relationships to expand your network during your search, rather than starting to build it while in transition.

What can corporate training leaders do to maximize these matriculations? Of course, over the long term it’s possible to maximize matriculations from corporate training programs through assessments of competencies (rather than seat time). This requires a step back to look at what skills need to be mastered and how that mastery maps to the appropriate degree program. In the here and now, most universities work on seat time and learning outcomes which may not always provide an apparent correlation to a degree for the students. Connecting the dots for students and understanding the market value of the degree can provide the incentive for a corporate program participant to matriculate to a degree program.

I am Natalie Rivera, owner and founder of Well Within Coaching. I am dedicated to supporting you being the leader of your life. I believe that in order to thrive in today’s world, we need to partner with those who care about us and have the skills and courage to challenge us to be who we truly are. Source: https://www.well-within.org/.