90% of aspiring Psychologists, Trainers, Coaches need mentoring & handholding!
It is one thing understanding the content, and another thing implementing in your life or helping others transform their life. What we have seen is that after people get certified as psychologists, coaches, mentors, trainers, or counsellors, they need a lot of handholding until they become seasoned.
When we learnt to walk as toddlers, we tried to first stand up. And as we attempted walking, we fell multiple times. It was our parents who then held our hands till we could start running. The same analogy applies to everyone mentioned above. It is quite natural to believe that everybody needs a coach, or at least a mentor or hand holder. Ask any good speaker in the market today. S/he will tell you that every good speaker was a bad speaker at one point. Then came this transformer in their life who changed everything. But you must be wondering, how is that possible? What is it that these transformers do?
First of all, there is great focus on the structure; structure of coaching, structure of training, structure of public speaking, structure of conducting the breakthroughs. And what is very important is focussing on the basics. You will see a lot of professionals who are not good in their work, are usually not very good in their basics. For example, coaches need to understand and follow the GROW model right from the basics to the advanced level. Trainers need to understand the Kirkpatrick model, 4-MAT system, and many more etc.
The next step after mastering the basics, is being able to improvise as per the situation. A true Master is the one who can be behaviourally flexible and can think on the feet along with having the presence of mind and being resourceful. Now, here is where a lot of handholding is required. Being an improviser, or at least attempting to be one (especially without mastering the basics) can easily result in making a lot of mistakes. The hand holder should be quite good in identifying such tendencies and giving feedbacks the right way.
Lastly, even if everything is going perfectly well, even if you become the Master in your field, there are going to be times when you will need a fall-back person, or maybe an Accountability Partner. Sometimes, even if you are very talented, you may not be in the right state of mind, which will compromise your results. You need a good hand holder there too.
Wouldn’t it be good that everyone has such a ‘Transformer’?
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