{"id":10257,"date":"2022-12-26T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T09:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=10257"},"modified":"2023-01-03T18:10:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T18:10:50","slug":"6-transferrable-skills-when-transitioning-to-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/6-transferrable-skills-when-transitioning-to-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Transferrable Skills When Transitioning to Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many professionals from many different career paths become interested in coaching.\u00a0 Sometimes they experience it, other times they learn about it online or from their network.\u00a0 When these professionals explore coaching, they are excited about what it is and how it works.\u00a0 When they research how to become a coach, they learn about the requirements for coach training.\u00a0 One of the common questions asked is whether other training or education can be used for coaching.\u00a0 The answer is within the question \u2013 other training or education is for other professions.\u00a0 At the same time, many of the skills these professionals have developed are transferrable to coaching.\u00a0 The key is understanding how to apply the skills in coaching because it is different.<\/p>\n

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6 Transferrable Skills and How to Apply in Coaching:<\/p>\n

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  1. Listening \u2013 build on everything you know about listening and take it further. Listening in coaching is far deeper and more nuanced than typical.\u00a0 Transferring the skill of listening<\/a> to apply when coaching involves upgrading it.\u00a0When coaching, you will listen to with curiosity to understand based on the client\u2019s context, listen for both what the client does and does not say, listen for patterns over time, listen for energy shifts, and be comfortable not knowing.<\/li>\n
  2. Clear, Direct, Positive Communication \u2013 there are many levels to this skill and how much you have developed it will determine how much more you will develop it in becoming a coach. Coaching involves specific language.\u00a0 Summarizing is done succinctly.\u00a0 Powerful questions are short, simple, and open.<\/li>\n
  3. Emotional Intelligence, Relationship Intelligence, and Social Intelligence \u2013 the ability to manage your own emotions and not take on the emotions of others is essential in coaching. The difference in coaching is that the client is often unaware of the coach\u2019s emotions and the focus remains on the client.<\/li>\n
  4. Collaboration \u2013 coaching<\/a> is partnering which includes collaborating with clients, stakeholders, other professionals, and other coaches which means expanding this skill to encompass the various relationships.<\/li>\n
  5. Entrepreneurial Skills \u2013 coaches are in business so your skills for business planning, marketing, and managing transfer into having a coaching business. The nuance will be how different coaching is from a business offering a product or expertise.<\/li>\n
  6. Supporting \u2013 typically we mistakenly think of supporting as giving direction, giving answers, providing resources, or physically doing something. In coaching we recognize that the best support is holding the space for the client to find their own direction, figure out their own answers, identify their own resources, and plan how they will do it.\u00a0 Coaching is advanced development for advanced results, so transferring the skill of support means supporting the advanced development of the client.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    During coaching certification, as you learn coaching competencies<\/a> and practice their application, you will draw on your existing skills and tweak them for application as a coach.<\/p>\n

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