Coaching doesn’t guarantee that a person will be “fixed”
It happens often, someone hears I am coaching someone and then proceeds to tell me all the things that are wrong with that person. Let me be clear, I don’t tell others who I coach, often it is the coachee who mentions it to others. Once people hear that someone is being coached, their expectations of change are heightened. They expect all faults to be “fixed”.
That is not the purpose of coaching – to create perfect people. The purpose of coaching is to help someone meet their personal objectives which can range anywhere from getting to promoted, to improving their business development or becoming a better delegator. Good coaching is focused. Good coaching will not fix all flaws. Nor should it – wouldn’t life be boring if we could ‘fix “ people?
