Coaching, is a teaching or training process in which an individual gets support while learning to achieve a specific personal or professional result or goal.
The individual getting coached may be referred to as the client or coachee, or they may be in an intern or apprenticeship / development of knowledge/ background/ learning relationship with the person coaching them. Coaching may also happen in an informal relationship between one individual who has greater experience and expertise than another and offers advice and guidance, as the other goes through a learning process.
The structures, models and methodologies of coaching are numerous, and may be designed to facilitate, support, encourage, sustain, learning new behavior for personal growth, or professional advancement. There are also forms of coaching that help the coachee improve a physical skill, like in a sport or performing art form. Some coaches use a style in which they ask questions and offer opportunities that will challenge the coachee to find answers from within him/herself. This "socratic method" facilitates the learner to discover answers and new ways of being based on their values, preferences and unique perspective.
e.g., ‘Why do you say that?’, ‘Could you explain further?’
Challenging students about assumptions
e.g., ‘Is this always the case?’, ‘Why do you think that this assumption holds here?’
Evidence as a basis for argument
e.g., ‘Why do you say that?’, ‘Is there reason to doubt this evidence?’
Alternative viewpoints and perspectives
e.g., ‘What is the counter argument for?’, ‘Can/did anyone see this another way?’
Implications and consequences
e.g., ‘But if...happened, what else would result?’, ‘How does...affect...?’
Question the question
e.g., ‘Why do you think that I asked that question?’, ‘Why was that question important?’, ‘Which of your questions turned out to be the most useful?’
Managing is making sure people do what they know how to do. Training is teaching people to do what they don’t know how to do. Mentoring is showing people how the people who are really good at doing something do it. Coaching is none of these – it is helping to identify the skills and capabilities that are within the person, and enabling them to use them to the best of their ability.
Professional coaching uses a range of communication skills (such as targeted restatements) to help clients shift their perspectives and thereby discover different solutions to achieve their goals. These skills are used when coaching clients in any field. In this sense, coaching is a form of meta-profession that can apply to accompanying clients in any human endeavor, ranging from their concerns in sports and personal, professional, social, family, political, spiritual dimensions, etc.
Skill means the ability, the talent to do something, the
accomplishment, address, adroitness, aptitude, art, artistry, cleverness, clout, command, competence, craft, cunning, deftness, dexterity, ease, experience, expertise, expertism, expertness, facility, finesse, goods*, handiness, ingenuity, intelligence, job, know-how, line, makings, moxie*, one's thing, profession, proficiency, prowess, quickness, readiness, right stuff, skillfulness, sleight, smarts, stuff, technique, trade, what it takes
The opposite is ignorance, inability, incapability, incapacity, inexperience
Life coaching
Life coaching is a practice that helps people identify and achieve personal goals. Life coaches assist clients by using a variety of tools and techniques. Life coaching draws inspiration from disciplines such as sociology, psychology, positive adult development and career counseling. Specialty life coaches may have degrees in psychological counseling, hypnosis, dream analysis, marketing and other areas relevant to providing guidance. However, they are not necessarily therapists or consultants; psychological intervention and business analysis may be outside the scope of some coaches' work.
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