A normal day 5 years ago:Going to the airport with my high heels and expensive bag to take the first morning flight. I´d work the whole day in some office in a city in Europe. Lunch with one team, dinner with the other and off to the hotel where I'd open my laptop a bit more.✔ Committed to the task, competent, reliable for my teams, and loving my work.A normal day today:Driving the kids to school and coming back home for my first call. Decent shirt and make up, no shoes. I work the whole day, lunch in front of my laptop, more calls and pick up the kids from school for a messy - non-dressy afternoon. Kids to bed and more laptop work.✔ Committed to the task, competent, reliable for my clients, and loving my work.

During this year of practice my clients have come with the following topics: ✨1️⃣ Develop self-confidence: most regular topic.2️⃣ Make an important business decision: a cold “business case” is usually a lot more than that.3️⃣ Relationships at work: bring vulnerability that requires a strong collaboration between me and my client.4️⃣ Preparation for an important conversation: worth exploring with creativity, only for brave clients.5️⃣ Find greater fulfillment at work: an intimidating topic that brings the most rewarding results.6️⃣ Work-life balance: recurring theme for the client who needs to be reminded.7️⃣ Dilemmas: effective, fun, and easy, with creativity.8️⃣ Clarity about a situation: a good structure to analyze the current reality and it’s done!9️⃣ How to become a coaching leader: train the trainer.🔟 Impostor syndrome: being compassionate with oneself had proved to be key.I don’t mind about the topic and enjoy supporting my clients reaching their goals, whatever they are.What I care about is the collaboration between us as we are both co-creators and the quality of the coaching depends on that.

Recently a potential client told me that he was unsure if coaching was for him. He is a senior executive of a big corporation, and wanted to know what kind of topics are usually brought to business coaching. I told him not to worry as I thought “he was coachable enough.”There is a big misconception that coaching is for individuals with performance problems. Well, I have proved through my practice that it’s actually the opposite. Coaching is a lot more effective with HIGH PERFORMERS.So if you:✔ set high standards for yourself✔ are committed to self-develop✔ take everything that is out there to reach your goals✔ are not afraid of feedback✔ are capable of learning from your own mistakes✔ are open-minded enough to absorb every piece of useful advice for your purposesCongratulations! You are in the “excellent coachability group”.The "coachability levels" are brilliantly explained by Peter Bluckert in his book Pshycological Dimensions of Executive Coaching.