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What is coaching?
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What are some typical reasons for working with a coach?
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How does coaching work?
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Why is coaching so effective?
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Does coaching work for everyone?
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What is the difference between
counselling, consulting, mentoring and coaching?
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What is coaching?
The earliest definition of the word 'coaching'
literally meant to transport someone from one
place to another. Today, the one thing that all
forms of coaching seem to have in common is that
people use it to help them to move forward or
create change in their lives.
The International
Coach Federation, an international body that
regulates the coaching profession, describes
what professional coaches do as providing:
“... an ongoing
partnership designed to help clients produce
fulfilling results in their personal and
professional lives.
Coaches help people improve their performance
and enhance the quality of their lives. Coaches
are trained to listen, to observe and to
customise their approach to individual client
needs. They seek to elicit solutions and
strategies from the client; they believe the
client is naturally creative and resourceful.
The coach’s job
is to provide support to enhance the skills,
resources, and creativity that the client
already has.“
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Why would I want to work
with a coach?
There are many reasons that
you might choose to work with a
coach, including but not limited to the following:
• You
lack clarity on
what a rewarding and fulfilling life looks like
and the choices you have;
• You might be
facing a challenge,
stretch goal or opportunity
and it is urgent, undeniable or exciting;
• There is a
gap in your knowledge,
skills, confidence, or resources;
• There is
a desire to speed up the results;
• There is
a need for a course modification in your
personal or professional life
due to an obstacle;
• You need
support in identifying your core strengths
and how best to leverage them;
• You
want to achieve a
better work-life balance
or a simpler, uncomplicated life;
• Your
desire and need to more self-manage and better
organise;
• You need support in
setting and/or
laying out a plan to achieve
certain goals;
• Your
desire or need for change requires taking solid steps
forward and accountability.
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How does coaching work?
Put simply,
coaching is a conversation, or series of
conversations, that one person has with another.
The person who is the coach intends to produce a
conversation that will benefit the other person,
the coaching partner, in a way that relates to
the coaching partner's learning and progress.
The coach helps the
client to gain clarity on exactly what they want
to accomplish and assists them in creating a
plan of action to make it happen
- providing support to enhance the skills,
resources, and creativity that the client
already has.
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Why is
coaching so effective?
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Coaching helps
to focus on the things that are
important to you. It can
help you to see what you
cannot see on your own, often because you are
too close to your own situation. This includes
ways you may be holding yourself back and
opportunities that you may not recognise.
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Coaching provides structure, discipline, and
regular focused attention to what you want to
achieve. The coaching process
allows you to break
down those big goals that may seem unrealistic
or unachievable into a series of manageable steps.
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Goals become clear and specific.
You agree with your coach on specific actions that
will move you ever closer to the results that
you seek. It is the outcome from those actions
that achieve success.
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The coaching relationship helps to keep you on
track and accountable for the actions you take
in pursuit of your goals.
By holding yourself accountable to yourself
and someone else, you create momentum and take
the needed actions to reach your goals.
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Does coaching work for everyone?
Coaching can work for
everyone who
really wants and is ready to change.
To be most
effective coaching requires a commitment from
you.
You have to put in the work. Much like keeping
fit - if you don't go
to the gym and work out, you're not going to see the results
in the mirror.
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What is the
difference between counselling, consulting,
mentoring and coaching?
Here is a common metaphor
that coaches use to explain
the difference
between counselling, consulting, mentoring and
coaching.
Let's say, you wanted to learn to ride a
bicycle -
A therapist
- would help you discover what is holding you
back from riding the bike. They would go back
into your past to discover what kind of
experience you had at an early age with a
bicycle.
A consultant
- would bring you
a bicycle manual and tell you everything you
ever wanted to know about the workings of a
bicycle. The consultant would then depart and
return six months later to see how you were
doing.
A mentor
- would share his/her experiences of bike riding
and the lessons that he/she has learned. The
mentor would bestow all the wisdom they had
about bicycle riding to you.
A coach
- would help you get up on the bicycle and then
encourage and support you while running
alongside until you felt comfortable enough to
go it alone.
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