{"id":8380,"date":"2019-07-01T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T09:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=8380"},"modified":"2019-06-18T18:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T18:20:17","slug":"youre-not-coaching-youre-just-telling-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/youre-not-coaching-youre-just-telling-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re not coaching, you\u2019re just telling stories!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Randy Kesterson, www.RandyKesterson.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Randy Kesterson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During the twenty years I have worked at the Vice President level, my role has included the call to coach members of my team and other extended teams.<\/p>\n

My wife Susan and I walk together quite often, and we use the time to catch up on things.\u00a0 One day Susan, a Certified Professional Coach, asked me how my week had gone.\u00a0 I told her, with much pride, how I had coached a team member who had come to me with a work related problem he was struggling to solve. \u00a0I explained how I had told him one of my best stories which included an explanation of how I had faced a similar problem and had dealt with it.<\/p>\n

She stopped in her tracks, looked at me with an incredulous expression on her face, chuckled a little, and said \u2026 \u201cyou\u2019re not coaching, you\u2019re just telling stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting at that moment, I was determined to become a better executive coach.\u00a0 I am proud to said that I have completed the Certified Professional Coach<\/a> program at the Center for Coaching Certification and, now armed with a proven executive coaching methodology, I am on the way to becoming a much better coach.<\/p>\n

Some of the greatest take-aways I had from the coach training include:<\/p>\n