What Is Coaching?
What is the Difference Between a Coach and a Counselor?
A counselor is someone who has specific expertise in a certain type of business or industry. Coaches work for a broader range of clients and generally have a wider range of knowledge in more areas than a counselor. Counselors diagnose problems with a company’s organization, structure, and work flow. They then analyze the results and provide solutions on a client’s behalf. Coaches also provide analysis, though it is not an as specific to a certain company or industry. However, they usually do not provide all the solutions; instead they provide you with the tools needed to answer your own questions, draw your own conclusions, and chart your own course toward advancement, achievement, and success. Counselors will set goals for you and your company. Coaches will help you figure out what your goals are and use their coaching expertise and knowledge to help you define, clarify and achieve those goals.
Coaches are not:
Coaches are:
Coaching
When referring to getting coached by a professional coach, it is a teaching or training process in which an individual gets support while learning to achieve a specific personal or professional result or goal. The individual getting coached may be referred to as the client or they may be in an intern or apprenticeship relationship with the person coaching them. Coaching may also happen in an informal relationship between one individual who has greater experience and expertise than another and offers advice and guidance, as the other goes through a learning process.
The structures, models and methodologies of coaching are numerous, and may be designed to facilitate learning new behavior for personal growth, or professional advancement. There are also forms of coaching that help the client improve a particular skill. Some coaches use a style in which they ask questions and offer opportunities that will challenge the client to find answers from within him/herself. This method requires the client to discover answers and new ways of being based on their values, preferences and unique perspective.
When coaching is aimed at facilitating psychological or emotional growth it should be differentiated from therapeutic and counseling disciplines, since a client of coaching, in most cases is considered healthy (i.e. not sick). The purpose of the coaching is to help them move forward from their present situation.
Different coaching methods may be done with individuals or with groups, in person, over the phone or online.
The basic skills of coaching are often developed in managers within organizations specifically to improve their managing and leadership abilities, rather than to apply in formal one-to-one coaching sessions. These skills can also be applied within team meetings and are then akin to the more traditional skills of group facilitation.
Managing is making sure people do what they know how to do. Training is teaching people to do what they don’t know how to do. Mentoring is showing people how the people who are really good at doing something do it. Coaching is none of these – it is helping to identify the skills and capabilities that are within the person and enabling them to use them to the best of their ability.
Professional coaching uses a wide range of communication skills to help clients shift their perspectives and thereby discover various solutions to achieve their goals. These skills are used when coaching clients in any field. In this sense, coaching is a form of meta-profession that can apply to accompanying clients in any human endeavor, ranging from their concerns in sports and personal, professional, social, family, political, spiritual dimensions, etc.
Life Coaching
Life coaching is a practice that helps people identify and achieve personal goals. Life coaches help clients set and reach goals using a variety of tools and techniques. Life coaches are not therapists nor consultants; psychological intervention and business analysis are outside the scope of their work. Life coaching draws inspiration from disciplines including sociology, psychology, positive adult development, career counseling, mentoring and other types of counseling.
Business Coaching
Business coaching is a type of personal or human resource development. It provides positive support, feedback and advice to an individual or group basis to improve their personal effectiveness in the business setting. Business coaching includes executive coaching, corporate coaching and leadership coaching. Business coaching is not the same as mentoring. Mentoring involves a developmental relationship between a more experienced "mentor" and a less experienced partner and typically involves sharing of advice. A business coach can act as a mentor given that he or she has adequate expertise and experience. However, mentoring is not a form of business coaching.
Executive Coaching
Executive coaching is designed to help facilitate professional and personal development to the point of individual growth and improved performance. Coaches need to have a strong understanding of individual differences in a work place as well as the ability to adapt their coaching style or strategies. It is suggested that those coaches who are unable to acknowledge these differences will do more harm than good. Many executive coaches have a specific area of expertise, sports, business, or psychology. Regardless of what specific area the coaches focus they still need to be aware of motivational needs and cultural differences. Executive coaches work their clients towards specific professional goals. These include career transition, interpersonal and professional communication, performance management, organizational effectiveness, managing career and personal changes, developing executive presence, enhancing strategic thinking, dealing effectively with conflict, and building an effective team within an organization.
Career Coaching
Career coaching focuses on work and career or issues around careers. It is similar in nature to career counseling and traditional counseling. Career coaching is not to be confused with life coaching, which concentrates on personal development. Another common term for a career coach is career guide although career guides typically use techniques drawn not only from coaching, but also mentoring, advising and consulting.
Personal Coaching
Personal coaching is a process 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. A personal coach may use inquiry, reflection, requests and discussion to help clients identify personal and/or business and/or relationship goals, and develop action plans intended to achieve those goals. The client takes action, and the coach may assist, but never leads or does more than the client. Professional coaching is not counseling or therapy.
Conflict Coaching
Conflict coaching may be used in an organizational context or in marriage and other relationship matters. Like many other techniques of this nature, it is premised on the view that conflict provides an opportunity to improve relationships, to create mutually satisfactory solutions and attain other positive outcomes when differences arise between and among people.
Relationship Coaching
Relationship coaching is the process of coaching the parties of a relationship in an effort to recognize and to better manage or reconcile troublesome differences and repeating patterns of distress. The relationship involved may be between members of a family or a couple, employees or employers in a workplace or between a professional and a client.
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A counselor is someone who has specific expertise in a certain type of business or industry. Coaches work for a broader range of clients and generally have a wider range of knowledge in more areas than a counselor. Counselors diagnose problems with a company’s organization, structure, and work flow. They then analyze the results and provide solutions on a client’s behalf. Coaches also provide analysis, though it is not an as specific to a certain company or industry. However, they usually do not provide all the solutions; instead they provide you with the tools needed to answer your own questions, draw your own conclusions, and chart your own course toward advancement, achievement, and success. Counselors will set goals for you and your company. Coaches will help you figure out what your goals are and use their coaching expertise and knowledge to help you define, clarify and achieve those goals.
Coaches are not:
- Teachers
- Trainers
- Therapists
- Counselors
Coaches are:
- Facilitators
- Motivators
- Inspirational speakers
- NOT counselors
Coaching
When referring to getting coached by a professional coach, it is a teaching or training process in which an individual gets support while learning to achieve a specific personal or professional result or goal. The individual getting coached may be referred to as the client or they may be in an intern or apprenticeship relationship with the person coaching them. Coaching may also happen in an informal relationship between one individual who has greater experience and expertise than another and offers advice and guidance, as the other goes through a learning process.
The structures, models and methodologies of coaching are numerous, and may be designed to facilitate learning new behavior for personal growth, or professional advancement. There are also forms of coaching that help the client improve a particular skill. Some coaches use a style in which they ask questions and offer opportunities that will challenge the client to find answers from within him/herself. This method requires the client to discover answers and new ways of being based on their values, preferences and unique perspective.
When coaching is aimed at facilitating psychological or emotional growth it should be differentiated from therapeutic and counseling disciplines, since a client of coaching, in most cases is considered healthy (i.e. not sick). The purpose of the coaching is to help them move forward from their present situation.
Different coaching methods may be done with individuals or with groups, in person, over the phone or online.
The basic skills of coaching are often developed in managers within organizations specifically to improve their managing and leadership abilities, rather than to apply in formal one-to-one coaching sessions. These skills can also be applied within team meetings and are then akin to the more traditional skills of group facilitation.
Managing is making sure people do what they know how to do. Training is teaching people to do what they don’t know how to do. Mentoring is showing people how the people who are really good at doing something do it. Coaching is none of these – it is helping to identify the skills and capabilities that are within the person and enabling them to use them to the best of their ability.
Professional coaching uses a wide range of communication skills to help clients shift their perspectives and thereby discover various solutions to achieve their goals. These skills are used when coaching clients in any field. In this sense, coaching is a form of meta-profession that can apply to accompanying clients in any human endeavor, ranging from their concerns in sports and personal, professional, social, family, political, spiritual dimensions, etc.
Life Coaching
Life coaching is a practice that helps people identify and achieve personal goals. Life coaches help clients set and reach goals using a variety of tools and techniques. Life coaches are not therapists nor consultants; psychological intervention and business analysis are outside the scope of their work. Life coaching draws inspiration from disciplines including sociology, psychology, positive adult development, career counseling, mentoring and other types of counseling.
Business Coaching
Business coaching is a type of personal or human resource development. It provides positive support, feedback and advice to an individual or group basis to improve their personal effectiveness in the business setting. Business coaching includes executive coaching, corporate coaching and leadership coaching. Business coaching is not the same as mentoring. Mentoring involves a developmental relationship between a more experienced "mentor" and a less experienced partner and typically involves sharing of advice. A business coach can act as a mentor given that he or she has adequate expertise and experience. However, mentoring is not a form of business coaching.
Executive Coaching
Executive coaching is designed to help facilitate professional and personal development to the point of individual growth and improved performance. Coaches need to have a strong understanding of individual differences in a work place as well as the ability to adapt their coaching style or strategies. It is suggested that those coaches who are unable to acknowledge these differences will do more harm than good. Many executive coaches have a specific area of expertise, sports, business, or psychology. Regardless of what specific area the coaches focus they still need to be aware of motivational needs and cultural differences. Executive coaches work their clients towards specific professional goals. These include career transition, interpersonal and professional communication, performance management, organizational effectiveness, managing career and personal changes, developing executive presence, enhancing strategic thinking, dealing effectively with conflict, and building an effective team within an organization.
Career Coaching
Career coaching focuses on work and career or issues around careers. It is similar in nature to career counseling and traditional counseling. Career coaching is not to be confused with life coaching, which concentrates on personal development. Another common term for a career coach is career guide although career guides typically use techniques drawn not only from coaching, but also mentoring, advising and consulting.
Personal Coaching
Personal coaching is a process 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. A personal coach may use inquiry, reflection, requests and discussion to help clients identify personal and/or business and/or relationship goals, and develop action plans intended to achieve those goals. The client takes action, and the coach may assist, but never leads or does more than the client. Professional coaching is not counseling or therapy.
Conflict Coaching
Conflict coaching may be used in an organizational context or in marriage and other relationship matters. Like many other techniques of this nature, it is premised on the view that conflict provides an opportunity to improve relationships, to create mutually satisfactory solutions and attain other positive outcomes when differences arise between and among people.
Relationship Coaching
Relationship coaching is the process of coaching the parties of a relationship in an effort to recognize and to better manage or reconcile troublesome differences and repeating patterns of distress. The relationship involved may be between members of a family or a couple, employees or employers in a workplace or between a professional and a client.
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