I’ve only been in coaching for 5 years but there has already been a complete shift in my thinking.
I wanted to become the best coach for me. The best version of myself. This is still the case.
But after 2 years of looking to connect and advance my career, sending cold email after email, and getting ignored by 95% of the coaches I reached out to, I got on board with something else too.
Our profession needs help by learning to help each other. I read two works that have made the points clear. I want to share them with you.
The first one is Cody Royle who is doing his best to highlight these shortcomings. Here’s a bit from an old newsletter that takes this point hard to the blue paint.
Any field of work stagnates when those in it don’t share their ideas.
Computer science was able to advance so quickly because of open-source technology — computer geeks everywhere shared their work and allowed others to build on top of it.
Perhaps you can think of this as open-source coaching.
It’s my belief that by hoarding knowledge and experience, we’re doing a disservice to the entire practice of coaching. The ramifications of our secrecy are now starting to show up in the health of our best coaches.
To demonstrate that you can give away knowledge and still be a great coach who delivers results, I’m going to go through the wall first.
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