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3 Things that Coaching changed My perspective on Life
Six months ago I thought I had a good idea of how to coach people and informally started coaching my immediate
teams and peers. I was all through the roof, my first few conversations were absolutely successful. I had such an
Vasudevan Mukundan arousing feeling that I thought this was a good skill that I needed to develop. I was throwing all my weight and
spitting prescriptions to all of them who came to me. I struck so many conversations and eventually left the person
with complete instructions to do for their problems which included both professional and personal issues.
This feel good effect made me to start reading more on self-development and mentoring topics and slowly I
started to get into a rhythm. I started writing blogs to help leaders in the corporate world to develop thinking,
oral communication skills to start with. All this while I never bothered to see how to actually coach a person. I ran
with my perception of coaching which was to deliver results to the problems that were thrown to me.
Well, that belief in my skill changed by the serendipity of events which gave birth to an opportunity to stumble
upon ICF for certification.
The way I got into this certification to me was not by chance but by fate( This is my belief).
One fine day while searching for a topic for my weekly blog I stumbled upon a LinkedIn post on how to make a sales
pitch to venture capitalist. While going through the comments section of the blog( I normally don’ t read those) I
found my first manager of my first job.
This prompted me to connect with him and I saw his profile. His latest addition to his skill set read
“ Awaiting for ACC Coaching certification”. I immediately rang him up and enquired about it, he referred me to ICF
website. Then for 4 months I just slept with this information and one Sunday evening, business as usual.
I had a fight with my wife, she complained that I was wasting time and that I was not equipping me with skills that
would take me higher in the corporate ladder. So I said – I don’ t want to be a corporate person, I want to coach
them. Then she slammed me for not doing anything towards that. So, I decided to enquire about the course on
Monday and was lucky to have a course starting in 10 days. rest is history.
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