Have you ever wondered what the role of a coach really is?
Do you have a clear definition? Do you use words such as facilitate, support, challenge, be a sounding board, or perhaps even mentor? What words do you use — and do they really capture what great coaching does?
One of the most powerful tools a coach can use to help a client is storytelling. (See my Epoch Times article, Classical Wisdom – When truth becomes a story, for more on the extraordinary power of stories.) Stories can demonstrate in a few memorable images what pages of abstract explanation may fail to communicate.
So let me tell you a story about the real role of a coach: there is an old Arab story ...read more