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Coaching is a
professional relationship that enhances your ability to learn, make
changes, and achieve desired goals
Your coach helps you get clear about what you want to accomplish,
set specific goals, make an effective action plan, stay focused, and
eliminate obstacles. In a coaching relationship, you and your coach
prioritize, plan, analyze, troubleshoot, and brainstorm. Your coach
provides structure, feedback, perspective, skill-building
techniques, and smart questions. Together, you evaluate options,
make decisions, track your progress, and celebrate achievements.
Coaching is not teaching, although it is educational
While teaching can fade, coaching reinforces learned concepts and
skills until they become second nature. Your coach often provides
skills training in the “need-to-know” moment that formal teaching
missed. She will also help you to discover how much you already
know. You learn more by discovering answers than by hearing them.
Coaching is not therapy, but it is therapeutic
The focus of coaching is on taking a hard look at what a fulfilling
life looks like, and then identifying specific plans, actions steps,
and ways of thinking that will move you toward achieving your
desired goals. Coaching is focused both on who you want to be in
life and then on taking action; it is not focused specifically on
creating healing. And yet, an outcome of coaching can be that
healing takes place. It looks at the future, not the past. Why you
are the way you are doesn’t matter. What matters is how you want to
be.
Coaching unlocks a person’s potential to maximize their own
performance
The structure of coaching is flexible. You and your coach design a
coaching arrangement that meets your individual needs and schedule.
The basic design consists of:
- An initial session to create a coaching strategy
- Regular on-going coaching sessions
Coaching sessions are usually weekly, lasting from 45 minutes to
an hour. Sessions may be focused on one specific challenge you are
facing, or on a much broader set of personal or professional issues.
Coaching relationships generally last from three months to several
years. The nature of your goals and the changes you wish to make
will determine the length of time that makes sense for you.
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