Success is intentional, through your conscious use of choice and decision.
The teaching/coaching world is full of opportunities, but you will only get there by boldness and conviction, by being decisive for the goals you want.
Teachers/coaches are born with great capabilities, but most will not achieve their potential until they call upon themselves to fulfil it. You must rise to the occasion when it presents itself; you must provide occasions to rise to.
Clearly defined goals in your teaching/coaching career path allow you to travel toward another horizon that represents the end of one experience and the transition to a new and better existence. The objective is to choose the right goals.
The difference between what one coach/teacher and another achieves depends more on goal choices than on abilities. The profound differences between successful coach/teachers and others are the goals they choose to pursue. Individuals with smaller talents, intelligence, and abilities will achieve different results because they select and pursue different goals.
Each decision affects what you become. Never overlook the obvious: The nature and direction of your life change the instant you decide what goals you want to pursue.
Once you make a decision, you start down a path to a new destination. At the moment the decision is made, your decision to pursue a goal alters what you are becoming. Just one step - a single choice - can alter your life, your destiny, your legacy.
Think about it - your goal decisions represent and express your individuality. You seal your fate with the choices you make. You define yourself by your decisions. Decisions and goals made must be your own if you are to call your life a success.
Everyone has an official wish list of things they think are "reasonable". What about the unofficial wish list? The one that common sense tells you to ignore? The list that exists deep in your mind, the list that keeps you up at night, that makes your toes wiggle when you think of it? Why not choose that list for a change?
How long have you dreamed of being, having, and doing what you really want? Think big, as when it comes to your goals, the size of your ambition does matter.
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Thursday, May 12, 2011
Coach, Trainer or Teacher?
A Trainer is a person who educates others on specific topics of specific importance
A Coach is someone who offers advice, ideas and perspective when appropriate and in a way you can use them.
A Teacher is a person who provides formal education for others.
"Teaching is the art of assisting others with discovery." Teachers impart their knowledge and wisdom freely to help others develop and grow within them. Trainers focus on specific areas of development, soft skill and technical, to transfer best practices in action and thought process to others. Coaches observe others to understand their strengths and weaknesses then guide them down paths that will assist in developing or correcting those weaknesses. To be effective, especially in the area of adult learning, you must understand how and when to be all three.
I believe that to be truly effective, you need to be all three and because of this overlapping, there is no difference.
Many ways to define this. Just one option is:
a. teacher tells a group of people about certain knowledge,
b. trainer shares his knowledge while working with a group of people,
c. coach shares his knowledge while working with individual people, but also transfers skills, and provides (mental) support,
What they have in common is transferring knowledge. The difference is important when you have to deliver to a customer.
In most cases a trainer is responsible for delivering information - knowledge passes from the trainer to the trainee, and the trainer's success is measured by the trainee's ability to retain and repeat what they learned.
A teacher is similarly responsible for delivering information, however teachers are often more invested in the development of passion for their subject matter. The measure of a successful teacher is that his/her students are inspired to continue to pursue learning.
An effective coach works with clients to help them find tools and resources to answer their own questions and achieve their own goals. The measure of a successful coach is that their clients become increasingly self sufficient and self directed in the pursuit of their own goals.
A teacher teaches you what is fish(conceptual knowledge).
A trainer trains you how to fish(technical skills).
A coach motivates you to fish(empowerment).
A Coach is someone who offers advice, ideas and perspective when appropriate and in a way you can use them.
A Teacher is a person who provides formal education for others.
"Teaching is the art of assisting others with discovery." Teachers impart their knowledge and wisdom freely to help others develop and grow within them. Trainers focus on specific areas of development, soft skill and technical, to transfer best practices in action and thought process to others. Coaches observe others to understand their strengths and weaknesses then guide them down paths that will assist in developing or correcting those weaknesses. To be effective, especially in the area of adult learning, you must understand how and when to be all three.
I believe that to be truly effective, you need to be all three and because of this overlapping, there is no difference.
Many ways to define this. Just one option is:
a. teacher tells a group of people about certain knowledge,
b. trainer shares his knowledge while working with a group of people,
c. coach shares his knowledge while working with individual people, but also transfers skills, and provides (mental) support,
What they have in common is transferring knowledge. The difference is important when you have to deliver to a customer.
In most cases a trainer is responsible for delivering information - knowledge passes from the trainer to the trainee, and the trainer's success is measured by the trainee's ability to retain and repeat what they learned.
A teacher is similarly responsible for delivering information, however teachers are often more invested in the development of passion for their subject matter. The measure of a successful teacher is that his/her students are inspired to continue to pursue learning.
An effective coach works with clients to help them find tools and resources to answer their own questions and achieve their own goals. The measure of a successful coach is that their clients become increasingly self sufficient and self directed in the pursuit of their own goals.
A teacher teaches you what is fish(conceptual knowledge).
A trainer trains you how to fish(technical skills).
A coach motivates you to fish(empowerment).
Monday, August 4, 2008
Vision - You control your future
The vision thing can often be tricky for student leaders or in fact for most people.
Your vision may simply be wanting to do your best. Often, students will tell me their vision is "to have the best year ever." But what does that mean?
Left on its own, it sounds more like a mission statement.
Anyone stepping into student leadership can say, "I want to have the best year ever, we want to be the best group ever." But that statement doesn't say anything unique about your situation, it's not measurable, and it will end up meaning different things to different people.
A vision is simply a picture of where you'd like to end up.
It gives people a sense of the big picture and helps others get a sense of where the group is headed.
For example, Emile was elected as a Student Representative for next year. Emile shared his vision with Talk the Talk. His vision is for his class to create a park, filled with trees, in front of the main office block for students to enjoy. He announced that this would be the matric gift to the school for 2008.
As a part of this vision, the other students on the council realized they would need to do more fund raisers, coordinate the plans with the Headmistress, and begin right away to make this project a possibility.
A vision doesn't have to give all of the details, but it needs to be specific enough that people can figure out what details need to happen.
The idea of a new park in front of the main buildings was unique for this class. It is measurable - the class will know if they accomplished the vision or not. Plus, it gives added meaning to all of the other events which precede it’s opening. Fund raisers will be more than raising money for the class, they were for getting resources to complete the park.
One of the best ways to communicate a vision is to paint a picture and put your people in it. Continue to talk about it and let people’s imagination see themselves there.
EXERCISE:* What type of project or event can you imagine accomplishing during your student leader year?* Are there projects that are on-going from past years which you need to complete in your student leader year?* How can you turn your vision into a picture people can see themselves in?
A clear vision provides people with an idea of what is possible. A vision will point toward a change in the future. Hoping that it will happen is not a strategy.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: What kind of vision will you offer those you lead next year?
SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT: Write your vision below and see how it feels when you read it.
My Vision for 2008 is ...
Think seriously about this...
Anxiety and fear strips away courage and makes great performances impossible.
Doubt makes even the best decisions feel difficult.
Anger rips your focus away from your goals.
Frustration can only serve to make you quit.
Guilt makes it impossible to enjoy any successes you achieve.
Jealousy and envy create dishonesty, hate and corruption.
Your thoughts and emotions are the only things that can truly stop you.
Likewise, the only things that can help you to do, be and have anything you want in life are also your thoughts and emotions. Next month Talk the Talk will look at responsible partying, where’s hot and what’s not
Your vision may simply be wanting to do your best. Often, students will tell me their vision is "to have the best year ever." But what does that mean?
Left on its own, it sounds more like a mission statement.
Anyone stepping into student leadership can say, "I want to have the best year ever, we want to be the best group ever." But that statement doesn't say anything unique about your situation, it's not measurable, and it will end up meaning different things to different people.
A vision is simply a picture of where you'd like to end up.
It gives people a sense of the big picture and helps others get a sense of where the group is headed.
For example, Emile was elected as a Student Representative for next year. Emile shared his vision with Talk the Talk. His vision is for his class to create a park, filled with trees, in front of the main office block for students to enjoy. He announced that this would be the matric gift to the school for 2008.
As a part of this vision, the other students on the council realized they would need to do more fund raisers, coordinate the plans with the Headmistress, and begin right away to make this project a possibility.
A vision doesn't have to give all of the details, but it needs to be specific enough that people can figure out what details need to happen.
The idea of a new park in front of the main buildings was unique for this class. It is measurable - the class will know if they accomplished the vision or not. Plus, it gives added meaning to all of the other events which precede it’s opening. Fund raisers will be more than raising money for the class, they were for getting resources to complete the park.
One of the best ways to communicate a vision is to paint a picture and put your people in it. Continue to talk about it and let people’s imagination see themselves there.
EXERCISE:* What type of project or event can you imagine accomplishing during your student leader year?* Are there projects that are on-going from past years which you need to complete in your student leader year?* How can you turn your vision into a picture people can see themselves in?
A clear vision provides people with an idea of what is possible. A vision will point toward a change in the future. Hoping that it will happen is not a strategy.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: What kind of vision will you offer those you lead next year?
SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT: Write your vision below and see how it feels when you read it.
My Vision for 2008 is ...
Think seriously about this...
Anxiety and fear strips away courage and makes great performances impossible.
Doubt makes even the best decisions feel difficult.
Anger rips your focus away from your goals.
Frustration can only serve to make you quit.
Guilt makes it impossible to enjoy any successes you achieve.
Jealousy and envy create dishonesty, hate and corruption.
Your thoughts and emotions are the only things that can truly stop you.
Likewise, the only things that can help you to do, be and have anything you want in life are also your thoughts and emotions. Next month Talk the Talk will look at responsible partying, where’s hot and what’s not
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