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I coach only those who are ready, are you?

Tom McCallum
3 min readJul 17, 2021

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Occasionally I dip into Seth Godin’s daily posts and select one to share. Last week he wrote the one below, where he notes:

“It turns out that the people with the potential to benefit the most from a coach are often the most hesitant precisely because of what coaching involves. Talking about our challenges. Setting goals. Acknowledging that we can get better.”

One constant I see in so many areas of life is that people are either ready, or not ready. My choice is to only work with people who are ready, ready to grow, improve, get better, all so they can make a bigger impact, or, as I put it on my home page, leaders who: “are already successful, making a difference, yet remain hungry to make an even bigger “dent in the universe”.

More specifically, I coach already thriving leaders ready to step more and more into what I call #OpenLeadership, ie they demonstrate the four attributes in the model above, of being Brave, Hungry, Open and Humble. For more, see: “Are you ready for Open Leadership?

If this resonates for you or you feel it will for someone you know in your business or network, I am here to talk and see what flows from that, you can book a zoom in moments here.

I now leave you with the thoughts of Seth:

A coaching paradox

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Tom McCallum
Tom McCallum

Written by Tom McCallum

Sounding Board for Visionary Leaders ready to make a Massive Impact. Daily posts here, or https://tommccallum.com/newsletter-sign-up/

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