COACHING PROCESS

Coaching typically begins with a personal interview either face-to-face or by
teleconference call to assess the individual's current opportunities and challenges, define
the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action, and establish specific desired
outcomes. The duration of the coaching relationship varies depending on the individual's
personal needs and preferences.
Through the coaching process the clarity and the honesty are so important for the
integrity and the value of the coaching relationship.On the other hand the interactive
responsibility and the steady working are needed to support the most effective actions .
A variety of assessments are available to support the coaching process, depending upon
the needs and circumstances of the individual. Assessments provide objective information
which can enhance the individual's self-awareness as well as awareness of others and their
circumstances, provide a benchmark for creating coaching goals and actionable strategies,
and offer a method for evaluating progress.
Coaching incorporates an appreciative approach. The appreciative approach is grounded in
what's right, what's working, what's wanted, and what's needed to get there. Using an
appreciative approach, the coach models constructive communication skills and methods
the individual or team can utilize to enhance personal communication effectiveness.
HOW IS COACHING DISTINCT FROM OTHER SERVICE
PROFESSIONS ?
Professional coaching is a distinct service which focuses on an individual's life as it relates
to goal setting, outcome creation and personal change management. In an effort to
understand what a coach is, it can be helpful to distinguish coaching from other
professions that provide personal or organizational support.
• Therapy ; Coaching is a profession that supports personal and professional growth
and development based on individual-initiated change in pursuit of specific
actionable outcomes. These outcomes are linked to personal or professional
success. Coaching is forward moving and future focused. Therapy, deals with
healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within an individual or a relationship between
two or more individuals. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the
past which hamper an individual's emotional functioning in the present, improving
overall psychological functioning, and dealing with present life and work
circumstances in more emotionally healthy ways.
Therapy outcomes often include improved emotional/feeling states. While positive
feelings/emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on
creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one's work or personal
life.
The emphasis in a coaching relationship is on action, accountability and follow
through.
• Consulting ; Consultants may be retained by individuals or organizations for the
purpose of accessing specialized expertise. While consulting approaches vary
widely, there is often an assumption that the consultant diagnoses problems and
prescribes and sometimes implements solutions. In general, the assumption with
coaching is that individuals or teams are capable of generating their own solutions,
with the coach supplying supportive, discovery-based approaches and frameworks.
• Mentoring ; Mentoring, which can be thought of as guiding from one's own
experience or sharing of experience in a specific area of industry or career
development, is sometimes confused with coaching. Although some coaches
provide mentoring as part of their coaching, such as in mentor coaching new
coaches, coaches are not typically mentors to those they coach.
• Training ; Training programs are based on the acquisition of certain learning
objectives as set out by the trainer or instructor. Though objectives are clarified in
the coaching process, they are set by the individual or team being coached with
guidance provided by the coach. Training also assumes a linear learning path which
coincides with an established curriculum. Coaching is less linear without a set
curriculum plan.