Sharing your Story

SUMMARY

Do you love to tell stories? In this week's episode, I want to show you how you can use that love of telling stories to help you to start your journey as a coach.

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, the Emotional Intelligence Speaker and Trainer of the Year and Master Coach Trainer, and today I want to continue our conversation around becoming a coach by helping you to understand the power of sharing your story.

What I want to do is help you to understand how sharing your story in a particular way, considering three key elements, will help you to not just put a story across, but to change the lives of the people that you're going to coach.

The first thing that I think is vitally important is be real.

The second element of great storytelling in regards to being a coach is to be relevant.

And the third key element in telling a story is to be relatable.

Well, that's it for me for another week. Join me again next week as we continue this conversation around all things becoming a coach by talking about turning our mistakes into miracles. I'll see you then.

FULL TRANSCRIPT

Do you love to tell stories? In this week's episode, I want to show you how you can use that love of telling stories to help you to start your journey as a coach.

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, the Emotional Intelligence Speaker and Trainer of the Year and Master Coach Trainer, and today I want to continue our conversation around becoming a coach by helping you to understand the power of sharing your story. You and I have experienced many things in our life, and those experiences all tell a story. And one of the greatest gifts that we can give people as we become a coach, an educator, a trainer, facilitator, whatever it is that you want to do is the benefit of that experiential learning, not just giving them theory.

So, the first thing that I think is vitally important is be real. As I already said, it's not about being someone who's perfect. It's not about being someone that you're not because you're now a coach. It's about being who you are. Being real is my greatest opportunity for people to know, like, and trust you before they'll ever let you coach them.

The second element of great storytelling in regards to being a coach is to be relevant. A lot of times, we like to just talk about ourselves and tell stories, however, it is not relevant to what's going on right now for the other person. We need to make sure that we're telling stories from our life that are relevant in context to the person that we're talking to.

And the third key element in telling a story is to be relatable. If we tell our story in a totally different language palette, or we tell it from a perspective of up here, when we're talking to someone about something down here, if there's no way that they can put themselves in the story, then the story is just words. Being relatable to the other person, making sure that we can bring them in, draw them into the story is a key element of effective storytelling as a coach.

Storytelling is way more than just telling a story. Storytelling is a great opportunity for people to see who you are, to see what it is that you stand for, what it is that you could perhaps do for them, and more importantly than all that, it's an opportunity to impart wisdom, knowledge, experience, to help people in a similar journey.

Well, that's it for me for another week. Join me again next week as we continue this conversation around all things becoming a coach by talking about turning our mistakes into miracles. I'll see you then.