Does Coaching Work? A Golf Story

10.8.14Yesterday my husband told me, “Susan, I finally understand what coaching is all about.”

Until this past May he had not hit a golf ball for almost 50 years.  Now he is playing again and last week he actually won a round.

What he said was that one of his golfing partners started to very subtly give him some coaching.  He did what the “coach” said and his game improved.  The next time they went out together to play, the “coach” pointed out some more things about his swing.  My husband says he listens carefully to the coach, puts in the correction—and his game improves.  The last time they played, he won a round.  He was delighted. “I beat the coach,” he said—but then he laughed, “Of course on the back nine he slaughtered me.”  He went on to say, “This is what you do with your coaching clients—you point out things they can’t see, and when they put in the correction they win at the game of business.”

He is right.  Coaching is all about listening to the coach then being in action with whatever the coach says to do.  It works like magic when the client does it that way.

So then, why do people continue to hire a coach?  If this is all so easy, one would think that there would be thousands of successful businesses and thousands of unemployed coaches.  What is the factor that stops the magic of coaching?  Resistance.

What is resistance?  The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as: refusal to accept something new or different: effort made to stop or to fight against someone or something: the ability to prevent something from having an effect

Think about it.  As humans we are a huge resistance machine.  We don’t like change, and we certainly don’t like being told what to do.  We work very hard at avoiding the domination of another person, even if we are paying this person to advise us.  Crazy huh?  And yet, you know I am right.

When we give up resisting the coach, our game gets better; when we don’t give it up we continue to play the same old golf game.

I look forward to your comments. What do you resist? What are willing to give up in order to experience success? I look forward to hearing from you.

 

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