What is coaching?
Coaching is comparably a new profession. It blends the best concepts from business, psychology, philosophy, sports and spirituality. Although coaching combines skills from other disciplines, it is a distinct process of supporting others to create an ideal life.
Coaches work with clients on a variety of topics:
from business and professional issues to personal and spiritual concerns.
A coach is an advocate, a sounding board, a cheerleader, an accountability partner, a truth teller and a supporter.
Coaching involves dialogue between a coach and a client with the aim in mind to help the client obtain a fulfilling life. This is achieved by helping the client establish what is
important to them and by clarifying their values. With the client’s input the coach cocreates value based goals and a plan to achieve them. Through collaboration, the coach
supports the client to achieve these goals.
A coach offers many things to the client during the coaching process such as:
1. Discovering the answers within yourself
2. Clarity of values
3. Co-creating a plan for how to achieve what the client
really wants
4. Become a sounding board for new ideas
5. Support in making life changing decisions
6. Challenge to expand their views beyond their perceived
limitations
7. Direction
8. Acknowledgement
9. Encouragement
10.Be a resource of information
What Coaching is Not
Coaching is not therapy, counseling or psychology. Although the coaching process may have roots in the field of psychology (and intervention often follows some psychological models), the actual process of coaching should not be mistaken for a therapeutic intervention.the by products of reaching your Life Goals.
Just as Personal trainers assist a person in getting Body fit, a Coach assists one getting Mind fit. As any Trainer will tell you having the right attitude (Mind Set) will be what makes you achieve the Body Fitness you desire. The Mind Body Connection is well known, and Coaching the Mind inevitably touches on Coaching the Body.
A coach focuses on solving whatever stops people solving their own problems! These blockages is what stops people
from being Successful.
The individual benefits of coaching are as wide-ranging as the individuals being coached - impacting not only careers, but also lives.
Some of the most common benefits include:
• Setting targeted goals and taking deliberate action
• Becoming more self-reliant
• Feeling more satisfied
• Taking greater personal responsibility
• Communicating more effectively
• Enriched personal life
Clearly, these kinds of individual benefits can have a
positive effect throughout a company (improving morale,
and productivity).
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