Two Points! Coaching + Feedback.
Can you imagine learning how to ski without a teacher? Bowling and not knowing how many pins you knocked down? Flying a plane without any instruments? Being in the basketball playoffs without a coach and without knowing whether the ball was going into the hoop? How frustrating that would be!
Lebron needed to know that that last shot went in the hoop and scored to win. “From 23 feet — matching his jersey number — James made a shot unlike any before in Cleveland history.” The press calls it a miracle shot and it was AND behind that shot was a lot of coaching and feedback. (What it takes to be a winning team is another hot topic.)
The score, instruments, coaches, and results are feedback. How much more effective would you be if you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt how it was that you produced the results that you did? Without feedback there is no learning. If you know this even when you don’t like what you get back, your chance of producing successful results increases dramatically. if you add a coach to this equation – that person you trust to give you input while you are in action, contemplating action, and re-acting – you accelerate knowledge, skills, and attitude adjustment. You’ll get you where you want to be faster!
As I coach my clients, whether it’s for growing a business, retaining customers, making a career change, succeeding in academia, making your personal relationships work, being a champion athlete, being a great Mom or Dad, if you want to be positively powerful, nurture and keep these beliefs about feedback:
• Feedback is a gift
• Feedback is information.
• If I don’t feel good when I get it, it might be just what I need to hear
• Feedback can save someone’s job, relationships, and life.
• When I give feedback, I am sincere and have the other person’s best interest in mind.
Nothing, not even feedback or a coach will guarantee you a win…but you’ll be a heck of a lot closer to one with it than without. Score! Read more about feedback, how to give it, how to receive it in HOW TO BE A POSITIVELY POWERFUL PERSON. by Triad West president, speaker, trainer, and coach Dr. Joel Martin.
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About the Author: Dr. Joel Martin, transformational trainer, executive coach, corporate consultant, women’s advocate, speaker, and author of HOW TO BE A POSITIVELY POWERFUL PERSON. For more than 15 years, has served hundreds of thousands of people changing lives and businesses for the better. Successful in getting people where they want to be faster. President of Triad West & Positively Powerful Transformational Events headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Core competencies are diversity, leadership, aligning and engaging workforce, OD, and tapping into and releasing personal power.
