introduction to coaching

Introduction to coaching

Definition: Ongoing partnership producing results in the personal and professional lives – improve performance and quality of life – ideal life!

How? Listening; observation; customisation and a dialogue to establish values and priority of goals – help others to help themselves

Differences with other professions

Therapy

Focuses on past events
People / clients need to become emotionally healthy
Coaching is action orientated
Coaching can identify a need for therapy

Consulting

Expert model – the opposite to coaching
Specialist in a given area with a particular problem
Coach, on the other hand, doesn’t have to be an expert. The client is the expert and the coach collaborates using the client’s knowledge and answers.

Mentoring

Father notion: Bestows their knowledge and wisdom onto the student
Coaching is side by side partnership.

Some validation research

Manchester Inc. Study ‘Executive Coaching Yields Return on Investments of almost 6 times its cost’. It used 100 executives from Fortune 1000 executives from Fortune 1000 companies who received coaching from Manchester Inc.

ROI of almost 6x the cost of coaching

Resource for starting coaching: Co-active coaching Laura Whitworth

4 cornerstones

The client is naturally creative, resourceful and whole (well) – If not whole then we need therapy.

Joy comes from creativity

Coaching addresses the whole life. Coaches that don’t may feel they don’t have the skills.

Golden rule: If you’re spending a lot of time talking about the past you’re in a therapeutic situation.

Build rapport / trust first – who the person is today. What’s the interference in their life. Know your criteria for achieving rapour. It can be different for your client. Rapour is about you – that the client can trust that everything you say is for their benefit.

Psychology resource: The skilled helper – Ega

The agenda has to come from the client. The goal is specified by the client.

2 forces that combine – Action and learning. Coaching is not simply getting things done (action). Asking questions can create learning – can’t do this without listening – listen until you don’t exist. Stop the chatter and be curious.

The relationship is an equal partnership – a designed alliance. Coaching is about of learning