Coaching is a professional relationship that enhances your ability to learn, make changes and achieve desired goals. Your coach helps you get clear about what you want to accomplish, set specific goals, make an effective action plan, stay focused and eliminate obstacles. In a coaching relationship, you and your coach prioritize, plan, analyze, troubleshoot, and brainstorm. Your coach provides structure, feedback, perspective, skill-building techniques and smart questions. Together you evaluate options, make decisions, track your progress and celebrate achievements.
Coaching is not consulting, although it is consultative. Traditional consulting offers answers and expertise. Coaching facilitates discovery by assisting you to find your own unique answers. Your coach provides his own expertise whenever it is useful, but never does things for you. The primary role of your coach is to listen, question, observe, pinpoint, re-frame and articulate what’s so. The plans you make are your own.
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