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what it is; what it is not
- Coaching
is unlocking a person's potential to achieve at a higher level;
helping someone to learn rather than instructing him or her.
- Executive
coaching is not technical instruction or professional education.
It focuses on working with a client to remove or reduce the internal
obstacles to performance.
- Coaching
is developmental, not evaluative. It is built on the premise that
the most powerful motivation to learn is internally driven.
- Coaching
reflects an adult learning paradigm. The coach is not "telling"
a client what to do or "selling ideas", but forms a
partnership with the person being coached to discuss and decide
together how to best learn a new skill, unlearn an ineffective
habit or adopt an new style.
- Coaching
is action oriented and experiential. Learning that includes description,
demonstration and practice has been shown to yield six times greater
recall after three months than description or telling alone.
- Effective
coaching requires a desire to increase self- awareness, to take
responsibility for self-learning, to set time bound goals, to
practice new skills or techniques and to commit to continuous
improvement.
- The word
coach was first used in the 1500's in England, referring carriage
meant to transport a valued person from where he or she is to
where he or she wants to be. Not a bad definition for today.
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