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Home > Coaching & Consulting > What Is A Coach?
About Coaching
2. What are the benefits of coaching? 3. How can you determine if coaching is right for you? 4. What are some typical reasons someone might work with a coach? 5. What has caused the tremendous growth in the coaching industry? 6. How is coaching delivered? What does the process look like? 7. What should someone look for when selecting a coach? 8. How long does a coach work with an individual? 9. How do you ensure a compatible partnership? 10. Within the partnership, what does the coach do? The individual? 11. How can the success of the coaching process be measured? 13. How is coaching distinct from other service professions? 1. What Is Coaching? 2. What are the benefits of coaching? 3. How can you determine if coaching is right for you? Since coaching is a partnership, also ask yourself if you find it valuable to collaborate, to have another viewpoint and to be asked to consider new perspectives. Also, ask yourself if you are ready to devote the time and the energy to making real changes in your work or life. If the answer to these questions is yes, then coaching may be a beneficial way for you to grow and develop. 4. What are some typical reasons someone might work with a coach?
5. What has caused the tremendous growth in the coaching industry?
In addition, individuals who have experienced the excellent results of coaching are talking to more people about coaching. In short, coaching helps people focus on what matters most to them in life: business and personal. People today are more open to the idea of being in charge of their own lives. Coaching helps people do just that; so the industry continues to grow. 6. How is coaching delivered? What does the process look like? Assessments—A variety of assessments are available to support the coaching process, depending upon the needs and circumstances of the individual. Assessments provide objective information which can enhance the individual’s self-awareness as well as awareness of others and their circumstances, provide a benchmark for creating coaching goals and actionable strategies, and offer a method for evaluating progress. Concepts, models and principles—A variety of concepts, models and principles drawn from the behavioral sciences, management literature, spiritual traditions and/or the arts and humanities, may be incorporated into the coaching conversation in order to increase the individual’s self-awareness and awareness of others, foster shifts in perspective, promote fresh insights, provide new frameworks for looking at opportunities and challenges, and energize and inspire the individual’s forward actions. Appreciative approach—Coaching incorporates an appreciative approach. The appreciative approach is grounded in what’s right, what’s working, what’s wanted, and what’s needed to get there. Using an appreciative approach, the coach models constructive communication skills and methods the individual or team can utilize to enhance personal communication effectiveness. The appreciative approach incorporates discovery-based inquiry, proactive (as opposed to reactive) ways of managing personal opportunities and challenges, constructive framing of observations and feedback in order to elicit the most positive responses from others, and envisioning success as contrasted with focusing on problems. The appreciative approach is simple to understand and employ, but its effects in harnessing possibility thinking and goal-oriented action can be profound. 7. What should someone look for when selecting a coach? The most important thing to look for in selecting a coach is someone with whom you feel you can easily relate create and the most powerful partnership. Here are some questions you may want to ask prospective coaches:
8. How long does a coach work with an individual? 9. How do you ensure a compatible partnership?
10. Within the partnership, what does the coach do? The individual? The role of the individual or team is to create the coaching agenda based on personally meaningful coaching goals, utilize assessment and observations to enhance self-awareness and awareness of others, envision personal and/or organizational success, assume full responsibility for personal decisions and actions, utilize the coaching process to promote possibility thinking and fresh perspectives, take courageous action in alignment with personal goals and aspirations, engage big picture thinking and problem solving skills, and utilize the tools, concepts, models and principles provided by the coach to engage effective forward actions. What does coaching ask of an individual? To be successful, coaching asks certain things of the individual, all of which begin with intention….
11. How can the success of the coaching process be measured? 12. What are the factors that should be considered when looking at the financial investment in coaching? 13. How is coaching distinct from other service professions?
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