A coach reflects on learning from every session, good or bad. Powerful questions unlock insight. New coaches struggle to balance their authentic self with fresh techniques, and need patience with themselves as they juggle presence and new knowledge.
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One is that every session is a learning experience. Yes. And, you know, good or bad, you learn something from it. And also, I really appreciate your, the powerful questions that you, you know, examples of that will help. That definitely helps. It was a, you know, it was a very nice session with, with Tomas where, you know, we were talking about ways to improve his coaching skills and stuff like that. And one of the things that, you know, we kind of very agree upon is balancing being yourself and incorporating the techniques and knowledge that you have learned. It's a hard— it's a challenging task to do, especially when you are starting out. Correct. So you gotta give yourself some grace, some time, some patience, some understanding, because there's a zillion things that you're trying to manage. How can I be present myself, incorporate what I just learned 10 minutes ago, what was first presented, yeah, and all that stuff. So it's a hard task, and it's— being a coach is harder than people think, I think. Yeah, it looks easy if you do it right, you know, it looks It's easy.