Coaching can support you in 2023

Coaching can enable healthcare professionals to reach their full potential (Stewart-Lord et al, 2017). Through active listening and powerful questioning, a coach can elicit the goals of those being coached and support the individual to achieve them. Having been with a supportive coach, I am a firm believer that a coaching relationship can empower individuals to realise their potential and help them to find direction when at a crossroads or facing challenges that might seem to have no solutions.

In 2019, I discovered how powerful coaching is when I hired a coach to help me overcome personal obstacles that I was facing. Within 6 months of starting the coaching relationship, the coach empowered me to take active steps to change my situation. This also unlocked the possibility for other goals that I had put on hold for many years, and I achieved them too. My confidence increased and I successfully applied for a specialist midwifery role supporting Black, Asian and other minority ethnic pregnant women and birthing people to improve pregnancy and childbirth outcomes.