One aspect taht is very important in coaching, is to acknowledge our clients in their efforts, actions and successes.
How often do we have people to cheer us on in life?
How often does someone let us know that they see?
The focus is on frequency, in how often we acknowledge others or how others do the same to us.
In a way this questions are asked do to the feeling, that we do not provide acknowledgements as often as we should, or we do not get enough acknowledgement ourselves.
I started to reflect on why this is the case. The first idea that came . . . .
The first idea that came into my mine was the fact that we tend to abuse of compliments on praises in a way that any acknowledgement could be perceived as not “real” or something just provided to comply to the norm of “good citizenship” but not a real acknowledgment of an specific action or valuing the person for who they are. Therefore, I perceived that people are cautious to any praising or acknowledgement.
However, I agree we the comment on the reading, the fact, that we all appreciate getting acknowledgements. hence, is important to do it but we need to keep in mind that we need to be authentic and when acknowledging someone we need in truth to connect the facts, the action and the reason we are providing the acknowledgement this way will be received better as an authentic comment that will provide the expected benefits in the receiver.
Keeping in mind that Acknowledgment occurs after action, it comes sincere with positive energy on the comment to bring a feeling of accomplishment in the receiver.
Xavier Villalobos
Published by Xavier C. Villalobos
Xavier C. Villalobos
Xavier has completed his training as Professional Coach and will be graduating in June 2011. His planning to use this certification of Professional Coach and with emphasis in Business, Executive and Leadership Coaching in combination with his experience in Lean tools to support clients to improve business results and achieve business improvements or Transformations.
He has learned how to help improving and transforming businesses by using best business practices (Lean-Six sigma, World Class manufacturing) simultaneously with Professional coaching.
By combining his knowledge and experience in business improvement tools with coaching and leadership, he has help, not only transforming business process but also changing people and leader’s underlying beliefs (limiting beliefs) to help sustain results and improve work culture.
Now he is looking to continue with his passion to help leaders and business people on this journey not only with his knowledge in business excellence or improvement process but also with his professional coaching skills.
Xavier has a highly successful record of transforming work culture and leading process improvements that deliver systematic, continuous improvement, sustainable growth, and enhanced profitability. He has the proven ability to lead and support business and operational transformation efforts in complex, diverse cultures in North America, Europe, Mexico, South America, and Asia − and broad experience in process improvements using Lean tools to improve bottom line results.
Xavier received his Master Degree in Business Administration, summa cum laude from Monterrey Institute of Technology; Also enrolled in the program of Master Degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso (thesis work pending). He holds a BS Chemical Engineering with Minor Industrial Engineering from the Institute of Technology of Chihuahua; and taken several high level postgraduate courses in Management, Operations and Supply Chain.
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