A coach is a person who teaches and directs
another person via encouragement and advice.
Personal Coaching
When a person coaches an individual client -- often marketed
as life coaching -- the initial task involves the coach
and client working out a mutual understanding of the scope
of work and documenting that understanding in a coaching
contract. Then the coach helps the client to prioritise
their current performance needs and looks for ways to address
any improvements.
Personal Coaching is a term generally used
in the fields of business, executive, life and career coaching
to differentiate the coaching process from the more popular
connotation of sports coaching. However, sports and personal
coaching have the same origin.
Personal Coaching is a relationship which is
designed and defined in a relationship agreement between
a client and a coach. It is based on the client's expressed
interests, goals, and objectives.
Personal Coaching is a learning process. A
Personal Coach may use inquiry, reflection, requests and
discussion to help clients identify personal and/or business
and/or relationship goals, develop strategies, relationships
and action plans intended to achieve those goals. A coach
provides a place for clients to be held accountable to themselves
by monitoring the clients' progress towards implementation
of their action plans. Together they evolve and modify the
plan to best suit the client's needs and environmental relationships.
A Personal Coach acts as a human mirror for clients by sharing
an outside and unbiased perspective on what they are observing
about their clients.
Team Coaching
Like individual coaching, team coaching focuses on improving
performance. In the case of a team, the coach observes the
team's current functioning, assesses the team's strengths
and weaknesses, and develops a plan for addressing any needed
changes.
Systemic Coaching
Systemic coaching focuses on improving the effectiveness
and survivability of a human system: usually a couple, family,
team or community. A systemic coach assesses a system's
functioning (systemic diagnosis) and goals (systemic goalwork)
and coaches the members to develop an interactive coaching
plan for the members to achieve both individual and systemic
goals.
A systemic coaching plan often begins with
dissolving transference, guilt and other entanglements between
system members; so that the members can communicate resourcefully
about all aspects of the system. Individual coaching can
be incorporated into systemic coaching.
Business Coaching
Business coaching focuses on helping a business owner to
create a distinctive business plan with its own identity.
Business coaching can operate in any segment of commerce:
from traditional businesses to entrepreneurial start-ups
to e-businesses.
