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Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their growth

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their growth

John Whitmore
Growth, Coaching, Unlocking

I am able to control only that which I am aware of. That which I am unaware of controls me. Awareness empowers me.

John Whitmore
Empowering, Able, Awareness
John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.34, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

John Whitmore
Responsibility, Essence, Coaching
John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.

John Whitmore
People, Sticks, Donkey
John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.106, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

Learning to create is essential, necessary, vital & fundamental. It is the centrepiece in which you create the life that you really want

John Whitmore
Essentials, Fundamentals, Want

Probems must be resolved at the level beneath the one at which they occur.

John Whitmore
Levels

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