You don’t coach a person – you coach the connections.

Aka. the way they connect with or relate to ideas, people, and themselves.

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Coaching is a partnership looking at the objective parts of someone with different perspectives to gain clarity and energy.

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Be wary of coaches that make things personal and put a spotlight on your character or ‘faulty’ behavior! That’s not coaching, it’s judging.

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Also be wary of static (or dogmatic) ways of doing things.

Entrepreneurship is a moving target with a need to adapt dynamically without losing integrity.

With that comes a need for principle-based systems that are method-agnostic.

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It’s a partnership looking at objective parts with different perspectives to gain clarity and vitality.

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That's also why I use "a third space" (or sprint canvas) where we can look at mindsets, emotions, concepts and behavior objectively from different aspects.

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And it takes the heat off needing to change or any fixation with 'being better'!
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The focus then moves to an orientation of witnessing our other parts and how we might want to relate to them differently.

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