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At Coaching4Clergy and Coaching4TodaysLeaders we don\u2019t just teach coaching skills; we teach coaching principles. To me, principles are like the wisdom behind<\/em> the skills. They complement and enhance the competencies, and bring them to life.<\/p>\n For people who\u2019ve been coaching a while, they offer more insight into what\u2019s happening beneath the surface when you\u2019re coaching. For newer coaches and coaches-in-training, learning the principles prepares you for what tends to show up when you\u2019re applying your coaching skills.<\/p>\n These principles seem to be somewhat universal, which was proven to me recently when I attended a class in our Brazil training. The students were talking \u2013 in Portuguese \u2013 about the challenges they had in trying to fix the person they were coaching, or solve their issue.<\/p>\n The discussion turned to this principle: Coach the person, not the problem. It was interesting to me how this idea spans across cultures. And it doesn\u2019t just affect new coaches; this is something I still work on myself. It\u2019s very easy to fall into the role of problem solver when really coaching is all about how to develop the person we are coaching.<\/p>\n One of the reasons we default to this approach is because clients often ask us to solve their problems. They may think or even say, \u201cisn\u2019t that what I\u2019m paying you for?\u201d This is especially true if they\u2019ve never worked with a coach before.<\/p>\n Of course, the problem with this method is that if we\u2019ve solved their problem, we haven\u2019t empowered the person. They\u2019re going to need us again. If we develop the person, then we often find the problem either goes away and there\u2019s no problem, or it quickly gets resolved.<\/p>\n After I\u2019ve been coaching someone for a couple of months, they stop wanting me to solve their problems for them. They know they\u2019ve got this. They may want some hints or some help, but ultimately, they want to be developed.<\/p>\n Another reason it\u2019s tricky for coaches to not fall into this trap is that most of us come from a background of people wanting us to solve things \u2013 that\u2019s what a leader does. Coaching introduces a whole new leadership dynamic.<\/p>\n By using the simple phrase, \u201ccoach the person, not the problem,\u201d we can remember this principle before we get too far down the road of trying to fix our clients or solve their problems. We can keep these guiding bits of wisdom close at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How this coaching principle helps develop our clients to not need us anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"content-sidebar","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}