Do you know the difference between effective and ineffective coaching?
Effective coaches provide you with activities, structures and support to help you achieve your goals.
Coaches challenge and inspire you.
They keep their opinions to themselves and resist the temptation of solving your problems for you.
Coaches help you to come up with your own solutions and strategies for success.
When done effectively, coaching helps you to:
- Identify what you value.
- Clarify what you want.
- Clearly focus on the actions you need to take.
- Be accountable for following through on the commitments you make.
Coaching differs from therapy and counselling because it focuses on the present and future and does not delve into the past.
Coaching is an art, not a science and it has a history that dates back to Ancient Greece, where the philosopher Socrates asserted that “an unexamined life is not worth living.”
Coaching helps humans to gain a deeper understanding of who they are, how they want to live and what they want to achieve.
Workplaces, sporting clubs, schools, individuals and other organisations are using coaching to maximise their performance and potential.
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