Life coach
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:05 am
Life coach is a trainer who helps to achieve results on the path of life. We at Megaplan became interested in this direction when it turned out that several of our former colleagues chose this new profession for themselves. Together with them, we will try to figure out what it is.
The article will be useful for those who are looking for their life coach, and for those who are just studying such a modern direction as life coaching.
Mikhail Sukhov
Mikhail Sukhov – Agile coach and personal uruguay whatsapp list consultant (formerly product manager for Megaplan mobile applications):
— I came to coaching gradually. David Yan, the founder of ABBYY, helped me. I was working as a product manager at the time, and he noticed that I structured processes well and brought order to chaos, I could “straighten out what was tangled.” Then my friends recommended me to Sberbank for the position of Agile coach, and I realized that this was my thing. Then there was Avito, where I already have 100 teams. And at some point, I just thought that my knowledge and skills could be applied not only in business processes, but also in life. I decided to test this hypothesis by working one-on-one with 20 people, and after the first successful results, I realized that there was a demand and a very strong one.
Dina Babaeva
Dina Babaeva – coach-consultant, integral therapist (former editor-in-chief of the Megaplan newsletter):
— For me, coaching is a second profession. I have a lot of experience in journalism, writing, and management. I came to coaching through personal changes: I had health problems that made me reconsider my attitude to life and what I do. I started studying spiritual practices, psychology, and neuropsychology, began to get to know myself better, and only when I sorted out my questions, I started working with people.
Training program
Coaching is the art of facilitating the development of another person. If you want to achieve certain results in your personal and professional life, then it is like in sports: you need a coach who will help you determine the direction of movement and suggest the right training program. Officially, a life coach does not teach life, cannot give advice. He helps you look at your life path from the outside, asks the right questions and helps you choose the direction of movement.
In 1974, Timothy Gallwey rethought his tennis coaching skills and developed the concept of business coaching. A few years later, Thomas J. Leonard noticed that the clients who came to him for personal financial advice were actually looking for personal and professional growth. Both of these events became the starting point for the emergence of life coaching.
Despite the fact that there are international associations and accredited life coaching programs, it is quite difficult to define its professional boundaries. The Higher School of Economics believes that life coaching should be based on psychoanalysis. Erickson University of Coaching teaches its graduates to work with problems in the present and not to look for the cause of failures in the past. As a result, many specialists develop “rules of the game” based on their life experience.
Life Coach 1
Michael:
— I generated my program based on the business processes that I have been working with in teams for over 15 years. I use Scrum, strategic frameworks, Objectives and Key Results and many other business techniques. At the first stage of work, I help the client formulate a personal strategy for a year, three and ten years. At the second stage, guided by the strategy for the coming year, we formulate quarterly goals. At the third stage, we move into rhythmic work on weekly sprints, starting with planning and ending with a sprint review with a retrospective.
The article will be useful for those who are looking for their life coach, and for those who are just studying such a modern direction as life coaching.
Mikhail Sukhov
Mikhail Sukhov – Agile coach and personal uruguay whatsapp list consultant (formerly product manager for Megaplan mobile applications):
— I came to coaching gradually. David Yan, the founder of ABBYY, helped me. I was working as a product manager at the time, and he noticed that I structured processes well and brought order to chaos, I could “straighten out what was tangled.” Then my friends recommended me to Sberbank for the position of Agile coach, and I realized that this was my thing. Then there was Avito, where I already have 100 teams. And at some point, I just thought that my knowledge and skills could be applied not only in business processes, but also in life. I decided to test this hypothesis by working one-on-one with 20 people, and after the first successful results, I realized that there was a demand and a very strong one.
Dina Babaeva
Dina Babaeva – coach-consultant, integral therapist (former editor-in-chief of the Megaplan newsletter):
— For me, coaching is a second profession. I have a lot of experience in journalism, writing, and management. I came to coaching through personal changes: I had health problems that made me reconsider my attitude to life and what I do. I started studying spiritual practices, psychology, and neuropsychology, began to get to know myself better, and only when I sorted out my questions, I started working with people.
Training program
Coaching is the art of facilitating the development of another person. If you want to achieve certain results in your personal and professional life, then it is like in sports: you need a coach who will help you determine the direction of movement and suggest the right training program. Officially, a life coach does not teach life, cannot give advice. He helps you look at your life path from the outside, asks the right questions and helps you choose the direction of movement.
In 1974, Timothy Gallwey rethought his tennis coaching skills and developed the concept of business coaching. A few years later, Thomas J. Leonard noticed that the clients who came to him for personal financial advice were actually looking for personal and professional growth. Both of these events became the starting point for the emergence of life coaching.
Despite the fact that there are international associations and accredited life coaching programs, it is quite difficult to define its professional boundaries. The Higher School of Economics believes that life coaching should be based on psychoanalysis. Erickson University of Coaching teaches its graduates to work with problems in the present and not to look for the cause of failures in the past. As a result, many specialists develop “rules of the game” based on their life experience.
Life Coach 1
Michael:
— I generated my program based on the business processes that I have been working with in teams for over 15 years. I use Scrum, strategic frameworks, Objectives and Key Results and many other business techniques. At the first stage of work, I help the client formulate a personal strategy for a year, three and ten years. At the second stage, guided by the strategy for the coming year, we formulate quarterly goals. At the third stage, we move into rhythmic work on weekly sprints, starting with planning and ending with a sprint review with a retrospective.