Dimi Cholakov, Certified Professional Coach and An International Best Selling Author
- Dimi is a Certified Professional Coach and an international best-selling author.
- He is focused on coaching, leadership, and performance.
Podcast
Overview
The trend of coaching has increased significantly in recent years and so does their need. A coach helps individuals uncover their potential, climb up the career ladder and improve their life overall by asking the right questions. Be it a Career coach, an executive coach, or a life coach, people are realizing the importance of hiring coaches and at the same time, people are showing interest in becoming a coach themselves to impact others’ lives positively.
Well, today we have invited Dimi Cholakov, a Certified Professional Coach and An International Best Selling Author to share his insights with us.
00:32- About Dimi Cholakov
- Dimi is a Certified Professional Coach and an international best-selling author.
- He is focused on coaching, leadership, and performance.
- He also holds the title of Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner.
00:44- What made you become a coach?
- Coaching was the thing that helped me when I felt miserable.
- I started reading personal growth books at that point.
- It really changed my life in a way that started creating goals and vision.
- I started talking to people and raised that I could motivate and energize them.
03:02- What has changed in coaching that now people who are willing to pay for it?
- People have realized that coaching is really valuable.
- People now realize the difference between mentoring and coaching.
- Mentoring: When someone older than you, shares a lot of insights and helps you to go through life.
- Coaching: The coachee has the authority. Coaching helps people to have answers in themselves.
09:25- How does the coachee evaluate the coach?
- It is very subjective.
- It is about how the two people connect with each other.
- A good coach has to listen between the lines.
11:52- Difference between coaching senior leaders and emerging leaders
- With senior leaders, we really need to focus on work-life balance.
- With emerging leaders, we need to help them with confidence to grow as a leader and learn how to lead.
16:01- What are the masculine and feminine attributes male leaders should have?
- Masculine Attribute- Discipline
- Feminine Attribute- Compassion
17:42- Three life lessons
- You have answers inside.
- Patience and consistency.
- Learning the power of love.
21:39- Advice to young managers
- Stay in the process and pay attention because when you pay attention, you are going to learn, and you are going to grow.
RESOURCES:
You can connect with Dimi Cholakov- LinkedIn
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Sahil Vaidya is the co-founder of The Minimalist, one of India’s fastest-growing creative solutions companies.
An engineering graduate from IIT Bombay, Sahil co-founded the company during his final year in 2015. With 7 years in marketing and user experience and marshalling a crew of over 125 creative minds, Sahil wakes up every day with a single-minded focus: to turn The Minimalist into India’s most inventive company in the creative business.
