Developing Your People Through Impactful CoachingНамуна

HUMILITY THAT SERVES OTHERS TO GLORIFY CHRIST

Accolades, roles, performance, rewards, compensation, remuneration, team-strength, projects, unique cross-cultural experiences are things we all feel good about. They are good because of God’s favor upon us. When we start to have the same mindset of Christ who being in very nature God did not consider equality with God, we are sure to make a difference.

As we develop our people especially through our coaching relationship we help them think through and generate their own solutions. And one of the most difficult and challenging moments that we can encounter is to quickly bridge and tell them from ‘our experience’ what they ought to be doing? Does it help them move-forward? Pause for a moment and think ‘When you thought of your own solutions when someone asked you some powerful questions, how did you feel?’ Empowered isn’t it? That’s a great gift you can offer to your people and teams. In times when our people are struck and are disempowered, they need our empathy, care, support and our belief in them that they can think-through! And this is what makes Coaching different from training, mentoring, counselling and consulting. In a coaching relationship it’s all about the person who is being coached and not about the coach. How does humility help really?

It helps us listen and question better: It’s about our team, so we get involved and intertwined in their stories, getting to help them to help themselves. We are listening not to ask smart questions but questions in the flow that can help them seek deeper.

It helps us build patience: As we learn to put others first, we also understand and bear up when they fail us, it’s hard but that’s what our Lord did with His disciples

It helps us have genuine relationships: Having a heart of humility helps our people to freely approach us, tell us everything trusting us even with their vulnerability. In turn humility helps us give time to them. Have you ever wondered how our Lord was able to spend time with his disciples?

Humility is our natural response to God and people around us when we think about who we are in Him.

Prayer: Father, all I have is yours, thank you for your favor! May I be a faithful steward in building relationships too! Amen!