What is Coaching?
Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential, which is particularly important in today’s uncertain and complex environment. Coaches honor the client as the expert in his or her life and work and believe every client is creative, resourceful and whole. Standing on this foundation, the coach's responsibility is to:
Discover, clarify, and align with what the client wants to achieve
•Encourage client self-discovery
•Elicit client-generated solutions and strategies
•Encourage client to stay focused on established goals for coaching
This process helps clients dramatically improve their outlook on work and life, while improving their leadership skills and unlocking their potential.
Why Coaching?
An individual or team might choose to work with a coach for many reasons, including but not limited to the following:
- Something urgent, compelling or exciting is at stake (a challenge, stretch goal or opportunity)
- A gap exists in knowledge, skills, confidence or resources
- A desire to accelerate results
- A lack of clarity with choices to be made
- Success has started to become problematic
- Work and life are out of balance, creating unwanted consequences
- Core strengths need to be identified, along with how best to leverage them
Core Principles of Engagement
- The client is resourceful and have the resources to resolve their problems.
- The coach’s role is to develop the client’s resourcefulness through skillful questioning, challenge, and support.
- Coaching addresses the whole person – past, present and future; work and private lives.
- The client sets the agenda, not the coach.
- The coach and the client are equals.
- Coaching is about change and action.
