Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Thanks from an Enthusiastic Coachee

Sant Kumar in his mid-forties is a Head of Internal Audit with 19 years experience in the Aditya Birla Group. I am his Head Coach in a program where he is learning to be a Coach. His coachee is Sanjay. The program was designed for 4 coaching calls, but Sant was super keen to do more! I celebrate with you this email he just sent.


From: SK Sharma Sent: Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Subject: Thanks!!!

Dear Dr. James,

The 26th Sept ’08 was our 6th and last coaching call of this program. As usual, it was a very fruitful discussion.

The program lasted almost 4 months and our discussions on coaching during the last 6 calls have been a great learning experience for me. While I was coaching Sanjay during the period, your support and expert feedback in my coaching development were really valuable and effective. You always played a role that inspires us to find ways, suiting to our unique style, to reach our goals.

This program has helped me to increase my ability to coach others and discover my unique style leadership. Not only, was my coachee Sanjay benefited but also my whole team here from my enhanced ability by support them to improve their performances and business results.

Your coaching techniques especially questioning and expert feedback on coaching and leadership were very useful. Your questioning techniques were so effective that we start looking for our own right answers and make better choices on sustainable basis.Some of your phrases like

- "Who would you like to lead first before you lead others? -the answer is yourself",
- "People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care",
- "Coaching is all about caring, the caring like mother care her child",
- "Put yourself in other person’s shoes",

- "If leader is there but no nobody is following means leader with only title”,
- "Use mirror for your own development; and mirror could be a coach, spouse and children” etc,

consistently remind and motivate me to be a better coach. I’m sure that these techniques would help me to sustain my improved behaviour and business goals.

I really appreciate for your imparting knowledge, experience and information with us through sincere and active participation during the whole period.

I hope to learn more from you in future.

With many thanks and regards,

Sant

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