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Why coaching is often misunderstood Coaching is one of those fields that gets widely misunderstood, both by people who have never experienced it and by people who think they know what it is from what they've seen in popular culture or corporate training programmes. These misconceptions can keep people from...
Modern life is built around immediate gratification. Notifications, deadlines, the expectation of a quick response: most of contemporary work and life is set up for the short term. It takes real effort to think beyond next week, next quarter, the next performance review. And yet the decisions that matter most,...
Coaching is more than just intuition There's a perception, even among some coaches, that coaching is softer than clinical psychology, less rigorous than research, more art than science. The relational and intuitive side of coaching does matter, but that perception overlooks how much evidence there is for why coaching works....
People don't pay for coaching because they're missing information. Most of what a coach tells you, you could find in a book. They invest because they're missing the skill of actually applying what they know, consistently, under pressure, without someone else's voice in the room. That kind of change doesn't...
The Illusion of Activity vs Real Effectiveness Coaching is one of those fields where the gap between activity and effectiveness can feel almost designed to deceive. A coach can run dozens of sessions, read hundreds of books, accumulate numerous certifications, and still not produce meaningful, lasting change in her clients....
If you're building a business, changing careers, or stepping into a leadership role, you've probably asked yourself whether you need a coach or a consultant. The two terms get used interchangeably, but they serve different purposes, and picking the right one can make a real difference, especially for women balancing...
There's a common misconception about what coaches actually do. A lot of people assume a coach's job is to give advice, to be the expert in the room who tells the client what to do, how to think, and which steps to take. That's not coaching. That's consulting. Consulting has...
Small, daily steps often get overlooked in favour of chasing big milestones and dramatic breakthroughs. In coaching, though, the idea of "small wins" is one of the most useful shifts you can make in how you think about progress. At Coachivas, we work with women who are ambitious and often...
Most real change starts with one honest conversation you have with yourself, usually about who you actually are versus who you've been performing for everyone else. That's the idea behind the link between identity and habits: your habits aren't random, they're downstream of how you see yourself, and changing one...
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