What is Coaching?
The International Coach Federation defines coaching as "an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses, or organisations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen learning, improve their performance, and enhance their life."
The term coaching with the prefix of either life, personal, executive, or corporate was coined in the early 1990s by Thomas Leonard, a financial adviser who realised that his clients wanted to talk to him about more than their investments. They wanted someone who would listen to their life plans in a focused, accepting, and yet questioning way—someone who would be supportive and encouraging of their own choices.
Coaching is about:
- Believing in possibilities
- Being a catalyst for change
- Setting and achieving your goals
- Being open to different options
- Deciding on what action to take.
What is the difference between coaching, counseling, and mentoring?
There are similarities and connections between all of these. The main general differences are:
- Coaching is about moving you forward, from where you are in your life to where you want to be
- Counselling is for you to understand and come to terms with your past, and for support to contain and move out of a crisis situation
- Mentoring is guidance from someone, usually in the same specialty, who can advise, encourage, and support you in your day to day work.
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