Everyone needs a coach...#1
A journey has been started..
September, 2016, London, UK.
“Hey, …., let’s go…let’s go…”
Everyone in the crowd was rushing around and running toward something.
I stopped someone to ask, “What’s happening?”
“It is Lady Gaga…”
…welcome to London.
(I used to be called “Lady Gaga” when I worked as an engineer at Samsung because of my weird outfit, wearing 12-cm high heels and a colourful hat…)
I had another reason for that day in the UK to be even more memorable (I had just arrived in London for my second master’s degree with a Chevening scholarship.)
I went on a 2-day training program about coaching because it was free, just to check it out.
…And that 2-day investment of time had a life-time value...
…I found there was so much more that coaching could offer us, no matter who we are…
That day I started to discover, “Coaching is being what I have practiced. But also there is huge career when following the path of coaching …”
I was like a wild horse to start with. I listened. I asked questions but I was not technically trained to become a coach…
…February, 2018, Hanoi, Vietnam.
“You are a coach? Are you certified?” a lady, 50 years of age, asked me in a community meeting in which coaches in Vietnam meet each other.
“I am not, and I don’t think I need to be certified. I have been doing coaching since 2011,”. I was very defensive. Inside myself, I thought “No, I never need any title, as long as it is what I am, my being, every day.” Top coaches in the world, they don’t have certificates. Wow, they create their own and certify others.
“Oh, UK. But certifications just give you more chances to make an impact because many clients still look for them when they have their first meeting with a coach,” the lady answered tactfully.
“Wow,” I mumbled. But I started thinking - the defending emotion. It meant that there was something inside me, coming from a limiting belief that was being so defensive.
I saw her point, but it didn’t persuade me to go further to get a certification.
I continued coaching others, mostly people knew my work and they recommended others. If I look back critically now, it meant that my clients were being recommended by word of mouth, rather than coming from a formal public reputation. It was not scalable.
…until 2021…
I had a PARADIGM SHIFT…
And I hope you will have a paradigm shift too, in your life, at a moment, or a period, when a question comes, or you ask a question. You change how you see things, what you do, how you give value to others, you change your paradigm. And in a way for the better.
I attended a 6-month program of training to be a certified coach…
“What did you get from those 6 months?” the Director of 844 Project, Ministry of Science and Technology asked.
Yes, coaching was something I have done for many years even before knowing about the definition itself. And the 6 months just made all these experiences come together, in a clearer form, in which I could hold it, take it, and hand it to someone else. It is more scalable when we see coaching from the perspective of science-based tools too.
EMCC and GCI continuing supported BK Holdings key members over 1 year to build our first Coaching Innovation & Entrepreneurship program in Vietnam: S-growth Innovation Coaching Program.
…Today….
Whether you will be a coach as a career or not, you can be your own coach, and making coaching a way of life. Then you will start taking different actions, behaving differently, having a new set of habits for your greater life that you would not have had otherwise.
At SIC family, we are our own coach and also make coaching a way of life.
SIC cohort 3 is opening to welcome new members.
“SIC really has transformed, created the strongest versions of the people involved. Moreover, SIC has really planted good seeds for a successful Vietnamese startup forest in the future.”
Mr. Do Minh Phuong - Former student of SIC
Founder of PUSH Co-working space
“Whether the Vietnamese startup team is strong or not, depends on the coach team. Coaching is the pinnacle of harnessing the potential of startups. SIC is the first program to train this team.”
Dr. Pham Hong Quat - Director, NATEC - Ministry of Science and Technology
p/s: Gratitude to our SICers
