Cool to see your path to this Sebastian. Some great tips here. What’s both tricky and exhilarating about navigating this space is how free-form it is. I have lots of respect for people who are this damn resourceful.
I’d call your “alternative strategy” instead a “potential pathway” to gaining skill as a coach. What I outlined was more like a scaffolding set of considerations for thinking about how to gain skill and become a coach, within which innumerable pathways could be pursued. But I did like that you provided a personal example. It’s probably a lot more accessible for others to model off of than the prompts I gave.
Writing out your journey in this way does make me want to write out something of my own that’s similar. Like the Coaching Insights section of this post but for how one could work towards becoming a professional coach. Could be interesting for people whose pathway is currently under consideration (or for those looking to fold in different approaches)
Thanks for this. I agree, it’s a potential pathway to becoming a coach which involves more than building skills. E.g., forming an identity as a coach—for me it took a long time to be comfortable in the skin of being a coach (likely amplified by doing this during covid and moving to another country where I knew one person only).
Ideally, I would have added more nuance and an illustration as it’s not a simple linearly progressing approach but when we’re new to something we need simplicity.
Cool to see your path to this Sebastian. Some great tips here. What’s both tricky and exhilarating about navigating this space is how free-form it is. I have lots of respect for people who are this damn resourceful.
I’d call your “alternative strategy” instead a “potential pathway” to gaining skill as a coach. What I outlined was more like a scaffolding set of considerations for thinking about how to gain skill and become a coach, within which innumerable pathways could be pursued. But I did like that you provided a personal example. It’s probably a lot more accessible for others to model off of than the prompts I gave.
Writing out your journey in this way does make me want to write out something of my own that’s similar. Like the Coaching Insights section of this post but for how one could work towards becoming a professional coach. Could be interesting for people whose pathway is currently under consideration (or for those looking to fold in different approaches)
Thanks for this. I agree, it’s a potential pathway to becoming a coach which involves more than building skills. E.g., forming an identity as a coach—for me it took a long time to be comfortable in the skin of being a coach (likely amplified by doing this during covid and moving to another country where I knew one person only). Ideally, I would have added more nuance and an illustration as it’s not a simple linearly progressing approach but when we’re new to something we need simplicity.
Would love to read about your path!