Life Coach
Training program
Coaching is the art of promoting the development of another person. If you want to achieve certain results in your personal and professional life, then it's like in sports: you need a coach who will help you determine the vector of movement and tell you the right training program. Officially, a life coach does not teach life and cannot give advice. It helps to look at the path of life from the outside, asks the right questions and helps you choose the direction of movement.
In 1974, Timothy Galvey rethought his skills as a tennis instructor and developed the concept of coaching in business. And a couple of years later, Thomas J. Leonard has noticed that clients who come to him for advice on personal finance planning are actually looking for personal and professional growth. Both of these events were the starting point for the emergence of life coaching.
Despite the fact that there are international associations and accredited life coaching programs, it is quite difficult to determine its professional boundaries. The Higher School of Economics believes that life coaching should be based on psychoanalysis. Erickson University of Coaching trains its graduates to work with problems in the present and not look for the cause of failures in the past. As a result, many experts develop "rules of the game" based on their life experience.
A life coach is a coach who helps you achieve results in your life. We at Megaplan became interested in this area when it turned out that several of our former colleagues had chosen this new profession for themselves. Together with them, we will try to figure out what it is.
This article will be useful for those who are looking for their own life coach, and for those who are just studying such a modern direction as life coaching.
Mikhail Sukhov-Agile coach and personal consultant (formerly product manager of Megaplan mobile apps):
— I came to coaching gradually. David Yan, the founder of ABBYY, helped me. I was working as a product manager back then, and he noticed that I was good at structuring processes and bringing order to chaos, and I could "straighten out what was confused." Then my friends recommended me to Sberbank for the position of an Agile coach, and I realized that this was mine. Then there was Avito, where I already have 100 teams. And at some point, I just thought that my knowledge and skills can be applied not only in business processes, but also in life. I decided to test this hypothesis by working one - on-one with 20 people, and after the first successful results, I realized that the request is there and very strong.
Dina Babaeva – coach-consultant, integral therapist (ex-editor-in-chief of Megaplan mailing list):
— For me, coaching is the second profession. I have extensive experience in journalism, writing, and leadership. I came to coaching through personal changes: there were health problems that forced me to reconsider my attitude to life and what I do. I started studying spiritual practices, psychology, and neuropsychology, got to know myself better, and only when I got my questions sorted out did I start working with people.
