Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Are You Ready For Take Off?

What is “Dentist-to-Dentist” coaching?

Like an athletic coach working with an athlete to improve performance, a dentist coach works with you, the dentist client, to improve your performance.

Unlike the athlete’s coach, the dentist coach works YOUR agenda, and begins where YOU want to begin. Coaching is about you as a whole person: your values, your goals, your practice, your balance, fulfillment and life purpose. Coaching does not give you the answers, rather it helps you figure them out for yourself and facilitates you getting what you want. Nor does a coach expect you to see things from the coach’s point of view. It is your point of view that the coach tries to help uncover. If your are seeking clarity and empowerment, then a coach will assist you to find your power.

Think of coaching as a private conversation you are having with yourself, (only it’s the coach), that is designed to help you get what you want. It does this by coaching your whole person and not just the “dentist/clinician.” In this process you learn to advance your goals towards the fulfillment of your life’s purpose. One of my prime objectives of coaching is to help you discover the skills and the confidence to create the practice of your dreams, quite literally, and to empower you with some coaching tools and techniques that you can bring to your practice with the self-assurance of a leader and a visionary.

Of course, you and your coach have to build trust and rapport to help you bring forth what you want out of life. This is done by your coach asking powerful, creative, “out of the box” questions, by being non-judgmental, by being intuitive and curious and by helping you resist the temptation of your own “saboteur” that tends to oppose change and succumb to the status quo.

If you are curious and want to learn more about the coaching experience, I offer a complimentary 30-minute telephone sample coaching call. You can reach me, Coach Dan Kingsbury, DDS, at 888-881-2263 or
dan@abmdds.com.

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