Eight years ago, Bill Gates showed his position on coaching in a TED talk by uttering a key phrase: “Everyone needs a coach.” The reason he gave for making this statement is that, in his opinion, we all need that person to give us feedback, to give us that vision about ourselves and what we do that leads us to improve in everything we set out to do.
What seemed like just another sentence in another conference by this famous computer scientist, businessman and philanthropist, was the seed for the idea to grow incessantly that not only the greats of Silicon Valley needed a coach, but anyone at any time. of your life you should probably count on the help of this professional.
The coach has thus emerged as the key figure of the 21st century to teach people to face new challenges and the new circumstances that arise. And together with the professionalization of the coach’s work, reasons continue to appear that only ratify that famous statement that everyone needs it. Reasons that are as many and as diverse as there are different people and realities. We will try to define some of them below.
It took a global pandemic for many of us to realize the uncertainty in which we live. Nothing is guaranteed, many circumstances can change around us overnight and we can’t do anything to control them because they are much bigger than us.
If we let ourselves be carried away by that idea, we can panic and find ourselves paralyzed, overwhelmed by the situation. A coach can precisely act in this area by ensuring that we do not allow ourselves to be swallowed up by those things that are beyond our control.
The professional coach provides the wonderful weapon of perspective in situations like these. He allows us to see ourselves from outside that special situation, understanding our role in them but, above all, making us discover the tools we have to avoid being stopped or trapped
In this way, a coach teaches us to live, that is, to move forward despite the many moments of uncertainty that arise throughout a person’s existence.
Coaching to know yourself better
It is surprising that we live in a time of greater connection between people through all the options that technology makes available to us and, at the same time, it is one of the moments where we are least connected with ourselves
It is increasingly common to hear people say “I’m lost, I don’t know what to do with my life…” and this is the result of that internal disconnection that has been established today. We know more about the desires and desires of others from what is exposed on social networks than from what we have.
Through a coaching process, a person can get back in touch with their own essence, that reason for living and being that is being lost among the sea of obligations and concerns. And, above all, through that re-connection make him be able to bring out that potential that he has and that would probably also have been lost
It is not an easy process, but the coach is capable of helping us find again the compass that shows us the path to follow towards the destination we want; In short, he is capable of making us take the reins of our lives that we once let go of without realizing it.
Coaching to evolve
One of the reasons why we need a coach is to be able to evolve in different areas of our life How many people remain in a fictitious comfort zone that in reality does them no good just because of the fear of taking the step further. They focus on “the bad that is known is better than the good that is not known,” thus prolonging a meaningless existence that they do not deserve.
We are referring to those people who keep a job that does not fulfill them even though they want and know that they need something more; or those people who prolong a relationship in which there is hardly any love and respect because it is better to continue in that vicious circle than to break everything into pieces to free themselves.
It is not that a coach helps you know how to find in yourself the bravery and courage to make that change, but above all it allows you understand that this change is necessary in your life to be able to evolve towards a better version of yourself and, ultimately, being able to experience a fuller life.
Coaching to be happier
If a coach can help us learn to deal with external circumstances that influence us but that we cannot control; if it also allows us to focus our lives taking advantage of our maximum potential; And if, on top of that, he provides us with the tools to not settle into a fictitious comfort zone, what this figure is achieving is something that we all continually long for: to be happier in our daily lives
So seeing what coaching in general, and the coach in particular, can achieve in anyone, whatever the type of person, it is clear that the statement “everyone needs a coach” that Bill Gates once made , is most accurate.
If you want to become the extraordinary figure of change that a coach is, we remind you that at D’Arte Human and Business School we train you so that you can be one with all the guarantees and with maximum quality.
