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1. 🔊 What industry do you work in and what is your role?
2. 🔊 What are your responses in your role / position?
3. 🔊 Can you describe to the function of your workplace / company?
4. 🔊 How many departments, how many offices. National or International?
5. 🔊 What are the minimum requirements for employment ie Education or Experience?
6. 🔊 How many opportunities are there to ‘move up the ladder’?
7. 🔊 What is the process for changing job roles ie Interview? Test?

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🔊 General discussion about your workweek:

1. 🔊 Current projects? Deadlines? Opportunities?
2. 🔊 Anything of interest happening?

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1. 🔊 Many companies use coaching as a tool to empower employees to fulfill their potential and meet organizational objectives. According to the International Coach Federation, the coaching industry generated more than $2.8 billion worldwide in 2019, an increase of 21% since 2015.

2. 🔊 To me, this growth shows that coaching works. However, I consider coaching yourself to be an important part of the process as well. Working as a coach, I urge clients to continue the process of self-reflection outside of our sessions. I am always upfront about the process of coaching: The only reason I am there is to ask them the questions they don’t usually ask themselves.

3. 🔊 To me, coaches are the facilitators of self-inquiry; they have a plethora of skills, tools and methods that can inspire us to get the results we have been struggling to get by ourselves. Therefore, learning how to self-coach enables you to get the most out of the process because it adds another dimension to helping you achieve your desired goals and outcomes.

I believe self-coaching can work for you if you are prepared to do the following four things:

4.🔊 1. You are courageous enough to engage with radical self-inquiry.

In a previous article, I wrote about the ways we can have difficult conversations with ourselves in order to take time to reflect. This provides a space where we can take responsibility for reviewing our performance, as well as our contributions to problems and challenges that exist in our personal lives and the workplace. Radical self-inquiry is about being brave enough to ask whether you are the problem and being prepared to do the work that is required to improve or fix things.

5.🔊 In the book Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up, author Jerry Colonna talks about radical self-inquiry as a tool for transformation. He urges companies, professionals and founders to focus on ways to increase self-awareness. I learned from Colonna that asking difficult questions that encourage professionals to look back at the past can help them unearth their experiences and limiting beliefs.

6.🔊 2. You are prepared to review your projections.

I define “perception” as a personalized system that enables us to interpret our internal and external world through a variety of shortcuts. One of the most powerful tools in coaching, in my opinion, is challenging our perceptions and seeing them as projections.