During this episode, Karim talks about the importance of practice in the mastery of any skill, and explore the 10,000 Hours rule, highlighting that in coaching, the growth of the coach in all aspects , questioning, listening, connecting… depend in big part on how much practice he’s doing.

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Hey what’s up everybody, this is Karim Amri. Welcome to Coaching Secrets Podcast.

Whether Michael Jordan who was daily practicing for hours, after everyone went home from regular training sessions,or Pablo Picasso who produced over 147, 800 pieces of arts during his life time, or you as a Coach, practice is the only and unique key to mastery.

In his Outliers book, Malcom Gladwell, talks about the 10.000 hours rules, where he highlighted that 10.000 is the key number of practice hours that separate great people from the other, where playing violin, hockey or painting.

Now whether 10.000 hours is the right number or not, the important fact here is the importance of practice and that more practice will bring more easiness in doing what we do, more practice helps doing mistakes, discovering them and avoiding them.

Practice leads to do the regular things in autopilot mode and leaves room for creativity and innovation when doing the complicated and challenging things.

In addition to all what shared above, for us coaches, practice is a key factor to grow,

we grow after each client,

we learn after each client,

we improve our listening after each client,

we connect more after each client,

we master questioning after each client and that’s what can add value to the next client.

I had a chat one time, with one of my friends who was in the coaching industry for almost 2 decades, and he told me how he decided to increase his fees after each 10 new clients, and when I asked him about the reason, he simply answered me that, after each 10 clients, he grew and his practice got better, and so is the value he’s giving to his clients. So he simply decided that the fees follow the same path.

Whether you’re just get trained as coach or it’s been years, Practice, practice and practice.

By doing that you’re adding value to other and to yourself, and the more you add value to others the more you add value to yourself.

In the initial stage of practice, having a mentor coach to help you assess your practice and highlight the strength and improvement points is important, as you can’t see the picture when you’re in the frame.

So practice and get true , honest feedback to take it to the next level.

Thank you for listening.

That’s all for today, keep growing and bye for now.