What is Coaching
How many times have you walked out of an inspirational seminar full of enthusiasm and zest with the belief that you were ready to conquer the world, but ultimately – you did nothing?
How many brilliant ideas have you had but found hard to act?
Are you ready to embrace a new learning methodology that will transform your desires and seemingly impossible goals into reality?
- Coaching is a collaborative, solution-focused, result-oriented process. It involves giving feedback, motivation and effective questioning. Coaching is for people who are willing to stretch themselves to go beyond what they could achieve on their own, to make their goals a reality.
- In comparison to other forms of training, coaching can deliver greater results yet at a more affordable price. More importantly, our programs are customised to suit your specific individual needs and goals.
What Does a Coach Do?
A coach has the skill and ability to help the coachee identify and remove any barrier that limits the expression of their full potential. A coach is someone who believes in you and helps you set goals, create action plan and achieve them.
Why Coaching Works
- Coaching aims to enhance the performance and learning ability. Successful coaching works on finding solutions. It looks forwards not backwards. It asks ‘How can we change this?’ and ‘How can we do it better?’ not ‘Why did it happen and who’s to blame?’
- Coaching is a behaviour that lies at the opposite end of the spectrum to command and control. It is a dynamic interaction – it does not rely on a one-way flow of telling or instruction. Coaching is about creating positive directed change.
Coaching vs. Training
- Training is about teaching particular skills. Unfortunately, the transfer of skills learned on the training course to the workplace tends to be rather low.
- Studies have shown that coaching used in conjunction with training can make the training up to 4 times more effective as coaching involves specific goal setting, collaborative problem solving, practice, feedback, supervisory involvement, evaluation of end results etc.
Coaching vs. Mentoring
- Mentoring is perfect if you are looking for advice from somebody who has personal experience in the area or industry you are being mentored in.
- Coaching, however, is the “boot camp” of mentoring. Encompassing elements of organisational psychology, management, and personal training as well as mentoring, coaching approaches the achievement of goals in a much more structured and results-driven way. A combination of mentoring and coaching can be a very powerful formula indeed.
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