What are the benefits of having worked to achieve a Prism award? That's the question we've asked past Prism recipient coaches. We wanted to hear more about their experience.
Here are some thoughts from Lynn Harrison and Ross Martin of Black Tusk Leadership (www.blacktuskleadership.com) who have worked with clients to achieve Prism awards in Vancouver and Calgary.
Benefits to clients -
- During coaching, the client is putting one step in front of the other as they move towards their coaching goals. There is reflection during each coaching conversation about what has come before and what will follow but that reflection has a shorter arc to it. When a client later, during a Prism application, is asked to stand back and from a distance now, look at the much larger arc that covers the entire coaching experience and what has happened since, there are always new insights about and a new appreciation of the distance that has been travelled.
- And this kind of side by side reflection that the coach and client do together in having to prepare a Prism application, is also very affirming with respect to the relationship between the coach and the client as they both look back together on this important experience.
- In learning that the client has been a Prism recipient, prospective customers and employees are curious (and often impressed) that the company has invested in a coaching culture and the development of its people.
- The award is a tangible reflection for the client that they have acted on their values around people development.
Benefits to our coaching practice:
- We are able to demonstrate (by pointing to the award) that our work with clients has made a positive difference - and can include this in our bios or on our website.
- At the time we received the awards (in Vancouver and Calgary) it felt really good to be acknowledged by our peers for our work in the coaching field.
- The Prism Award reminds us that the work we do can have an impact on an entire organizational system and our mission is to help create environments in which leaders foster excellence and people can bring their best selves to work.
Will we see your name on the roster of coaches who have submitted award nominations for your client? We know there are fabulous coaching stories waiting to be told.
The 2011 Prism Awards will be held in late April, nominations will be accepted in early March.
What's the next great coaching story?
On Behalf of the 2011 Prism Committee
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