Trust and Safety are the most vital elements to form a healthy coaching relationship. The strategy of coaching is laid with these two things. Without them, the purpose of serving the clients will be of no use – neither to the giver nor the receiver. A coach needs to connect strongly with the client and these two are real adhesives which help clients to connect with their coach and vice versa. True coaching can resume only when the clients feel at ease to share their thoughts, feelings and struggles they are going through.
As per the illustration of the International Coaching Federation, trust and safety are the essential skills for good coaches. Clients expect that they should be heard, their feelings can be best expressed by them only if the coach builds a strong relation with them through trust and providing them safety at all levels of talk. By maintaining their confidentiality, the coach can step strongly, hence building trust and safety for them.
Clients open up with their coaches only when they observe the presence of these two elements in their coaches. They can talk openly and share their fears. They will not avoid or hide issues, but share the things that bother them in life-full of challenges. And the clients usually have more challenges and struggles in their lives. They yearn for respect and motivation to achieve certain goals in their lives. The coaches can provide them a secure environment where they may try new things and drift themselves away from the worries of being judged or analysed. Respecting each others’ feelings, both the coach and the client can build healthy partnership.
The strong partnership has the foundation of trust and safety. The coaches can help themselves by providing trust to their clients by listening carefully, honestly and showing concern towards them . Secondly, the secrets of clients should be well preserved by the coaches. The clients do not expect to be judged but they need to be supported with their ideas and opinions. Most of the people deal with stress at hidden feelings, then the purpose of right coaching will also fail with no productive outcome of their limited talks. Most of the people deal with stress at workplace, in their career, building goals, or personal lives. But if they fail to express their fears and hidden feelings, then the purpose of right coaching will also fail with no productive outcome out of their limited talks. At such times, a client might feel the need to be appreciated and feel comfortable by their coach. The actual thought is that trust and safety are the base of good partnership between the coach and the client. With the presence of these two powerful skills, clients find friends within the coaches with whom they can open up and converse freely. The clients have of course an urgent need to get all the doubts and feelings off their chest.
Finally, coaches ought to develop trust and safety to maintain healthier, stronger, and more respectfulrelation with their clients.
Let’s help people, let them grow.
Let’s cultivate Trust and Safety
And give way to Hope.
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