Mastery, the competence, confidence & commitment to deliver the best to clients

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Garry Schleifer, One of Thousands of Business Coaches on Noomii.

What did you contribute to the coaching community from the fieldwork of the Management part of this series?

Being life long learners, Mastery, the 3rd quadrant of the Whole coach system, is surely the one most coaches are, or would like to be in, most of the time.

Having worked in the first two quadrants of Marketing and Management, you are now more likely to have the freedom to work with less distraction.

Of course we still have to market for more clients and do the administration of the clients.

Mastery can take many forms. For this part of the series we are going to use the concepts of confidence, competence and commitment.

We know you are committed to your craft. Making a difference in peoples lives and impacting the world was what we signed up for and we don’t take it lightly.

Not to forget the commitment needed to build a business.

Let’s move on to confidence and competence.

If you are a newer business person (or coach), or even if you have been around for a while, the question of “am I being the best service delivery person (coach) I can be?” might come up.

Or perhaps you need to have someone be a third party to your coaching for the purposes of certification or recertification.

In either case, mastery might mean engaging the services of a mentor or supervisor. Someone to listen to your coaching and provide the observation, feedback and direction you might need or want to move your confidence and competence up a few notches.

Another way of planning your mastery might be to think about your clients. What are their needs? What are their current challenges?

This is an opportunity to think about what is the next area of coaching methodology that might be needed. Is it team coaching? Facilitation? NLP? A certain type of assessment or other coaching instrument?

What area will be of the most service to your clients?

Is it possible to turn the new learning into an additional revenue stream?

Hopefully these ideas have sparked some interest in the various aspects of Mastery and will have the underpinnings of a plan that you can implement to cover more than just taking a course. And increase your competence and confidence at the same time.

Your fieldwork this week is to:
Think about 3 of your favorite clients. What are the top 3 challenges they are facing right now? Look at what training you can access that will support the solution of those challenges.
Create a Mastery plan. Start a list of what you think is next for your coaching. For this year? Next year?
Think about what confidence, competence and commitment mean to you?

In the next issue of the Expert Series we roll this all together into the conversation about your Magnificence.