Great People: Coaching Clients

There is really only one problem with being a coach, and that is my inability to tell the stories of the wonderful people I work with. Coach confidentiality demands that I keep the amazing stories to myself, so a grateful tribute to the folks who really help me make my personal contribution to the world is not as exciting as it should be.

I would like to share with you their stories of survival, their dreams of making the world a better place, their side-splitting anecdotes, their headaches, and most of all, their successes. They turned to me to get over a bump or improve their game or work out a relationship. They tell me “Mission Accomplished” and I can see it in their eyes and sense it in the way they walk. However, I wonder if they know how they have changed me as well.

Every coaching “job” is a relationship. Relationships are, by definition, a connection that runs both ways. Each coaching client changes me a little bit, too. I grow wiser, I learn new lingo, I explore organizational dynamics through a fresh angle, I hear about new restaurants, technologies, or other trends. After 10 years I can see that my new clients are benefitting greatly from my former clients’ influence on me.

Coaching is the gift I have been given to share, but it would be meaningless without someone to receive it. I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to organizations and individual’s lives through coaching.

Thank you coaching clients.