How to Get Coached

Witness Change and Gowth in Real Time

What would you change if you had your very own coach?  Someone who would tell you honestly and clearly how to meet your goals? What would you work on?  Your business?  Your health?  Your relationship? Personal growth - along with healthy relationships and community engagement is part of the troika we promote here all.the.time! 

That’s what you get to hear Kelly and me work on together in real time pretty much every week on this podcast. If you’re listening to this, we’re pretty sure you’re interested in creating a fuller, more authentic life… or maybe you just like listening to us as we muddle around and through the process.

The New Year is when most of us take some time to evaluate how we’re doing and resolve to do better.  If you’re like me, you’ve designed your own life-change program over and over again and tried to gut it out until at least mid-February before backsliding or giving up outright.  (and it’s so friggin painful and disheartening) Sometimes we beat the odds and make major changes.  But is there a key, a trick to making meaningful change? Maybe a coach can be part of the process? 
  
Guest Bios:
This week we not only talk with, but get counseled by two professional coaches.  Friend of the pod Tom Check is back with us and our new friend Ken Kilday joins us to help unpack what coaching is and isn’t, and we explore together the nature of change.  

Ken Kilday has over 20 years experience in corporate leadership that gives him a rich background to draw from. [You can check out their bona fides in the show notes] His defining insight, though, is that people and relationships are what make teams - no matter the size - capable of thriving and adapting. Ken now coaches corporate teams, small businesses and entrepreneurs get what they want from their business. 

Tom Check has been a network admin, a rambling photographer, a nonprofit leader, and now runs a thriving business called Choice Coaching. Tom has a set of communication and listening skills he uses to help individuals make decisions and cultivate changes in whatever area of life that is most important to them, whether it’s quitting smoking, getting in shape, or sustaining their business.      

In this episode, we learn more about personal and business coaching, how it differs from therapy, and how Tom and Ken approach it. THEN, you get to sit in on an actual coaching session as these two smarties help Charles and me figure out some important ways we’ve been blocking ourselves.  Each session only took about ten minutes to really get down to the nitty gritty - we were astonished - and we’re curious what you’ll think.  ​

Show Notes
Key Takeaways: 

• Personal growth takes persistence, focus, and help. 
• First step in creating change is determining if you are actually ready to change. 
• Make changes that make a difference… don’t just take the pill, remove the source of the problem. 
• Commit to small, measurable steps. 

Do a Science:

•  Go after the cause of your dissatisfaction, rather than the symptom. ​

“Having seen your potential, being small would never be enough for you.”
​Tom Check. ​

References:

• Ken Kilday’s coaching website
• Tom Check at Choice Coaching 
• The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS)

Resources: 

• Episode 6 Coaching and Community Weaving with Tom Check. 
• Episode 48 How to Question Everything with Mary Hodges.

 “In the history of successful life and business, standing still and waiting has never been a great solution.” 
Ken Kilday  

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