Love at First Insight: How Coaching Can Inspire Aha Moments!
Love is the foundation of the strongest human bonds. This holds in professional and corporate dealings similar to romantic and familial connections. Coaching creates a safe, accepting environment, fosters caring relationships, and educates human interactions. These connections enable each person to bring their best self to the table; they are neither forced nor domineering.
Though it transcends this one channel of interaction, romantic connections are typically thought of when one thinks of love. It is a quality that, when applied to those we interact with, ensures more harmonious and fulfilling interactions. It is the unwavering acceptance of people for who they are.
In tandem with this, we frequently hear from certified coaches that they discovered something new in their interactions; the aha moment. Coaching improves many life realities that people had previously left to chance or abandoned entirely. The training sessions go further into professional relationships, but they also incorporate personal connections, providing a wholesome experience.
Whereas therapy focuses on the past, coaching focuses on the future. It opens doors that might otherwise be closed, seizes possibilities that would go unrecognized, and provides incalculable benefits.
Insights Shared by Certified Coaches
I feel like I have been given a gift, helping people to become the best version of themselves. To bring out the greatness in myself, my partner, my kids, my friends and colleagues. I think I am fortunate to do that.
Jessica Donovan Founder and CEO, Resilient Future Advisors, Certified Professional Coach
People are people first, they are human beings, not human doings. You have to engage the holistic person. I am a person too, the more self aware I am, the more I can consider other people as such
Peter Ssenyange , Chief Financial Officer, PostBank Uganda
I am able to have conversations with my team, at home in a normal conversation, I am able to value and listen to them more. I am now able to receive feedback from people who report to me or are around me building a motivated team.
Patrick Nyaga, CEO, CIC Insurance Group. Certified Executive Leadership Coach
As I raise a teenager, I have shifted from telling my child what to do to coaching them.
Rina Hicks, Operations director, Faida Investment Bank- Certified Professional Coach
As a certified coach, those who work with me find a self aware leader, an empathetic one. I make conversations two-way, understanding everybody has their unique genius. I now appreciate the richness of diversity.
Jamila Mohammed, Judge of Appeal, The Judiciary of Kenya Certified Executive Leadership Coach
I now appreciate the power of silence and listening and active listening for that matter. I experience freedom, for I realized the answer is with the person I am talking to, so I just ask the right questions and they come up with good growth answers.
Eva Wangui- Finance Business Partner, Safaricom PLC. Certified Professional Coach
This is the time to celebrate love that transcends professional boundaries, patches up wounded interactions and allows you to savour the beauty every interaction brings. This beauty breeds wholesome experiences that culminate to a fulfilling life.
Happy Valentine’s Day 2025!
