What can I get coached on?

The short answer to this question is: nearly anything.

Coaching is a dialogue that is led by your sense of where you want to be and where you feel stuck.

That might entail a change in work, relationships or any part of your life.

Examples can be helpful, so here are some issues people turn to coaching for:

Work

• Feeling burned out at work
• Feeling unappreciated at work
• Feeling like your career has stalled
• Struggling with a current place of work and/or manager
• Wanting to change career
• Wanting support as you start a new venture
• Struggling with difficult feedback or a redundancy
• Re-aligning your work with your values
• Getting a sense of where you want to be in 5 years

Family and relationships

• Struggling in a relationship
• Commitment issues
• Parenting issues
• Recurring family dramas
• Wanting to better balance family, life and work
• Fears of letting people down
• Balancing self-care and care for others

Personal

• Feeling conflict between “what I should do” and “what I end up doing”
• Feeling stuck in the same thought loops
• Wanting to learn something new
• Wanting to improve your organisational habits or routines
• Support on a spiritual path
• Struggling with finances
• Addressing a difficult relationship with money
• Struggling to say no to anything
• Refocusing on health and wellbeing
• Feeling unsupported by friends
• Feeling unable to let go of something
• Wanting to shed old masks and labels

Events

• A difficult conversation you’re avoiding
• A big event you’re preparing for (maybe a public talk or demo)
• Whether to say yes or no to an opportunity
• Difficult people reappearing in your life
• Travel plans and anxieties
• Something hurtful that happened to you recently

Sometimes, people just feel stuck or have a gnawing sense of wanting more. This is fertile ground to begin a dialogue, and a coach can help you better define what’s behind the stuckness and how you might move forward.