The coaching process addresses specific personal projects, business successes, general conditions and transitions in the coachees personal life, relationships or profession by examining what is going on right now, discovering what obstacles or challenges might be, abd choosing course of action to make the coachees's life as fulfilling as they want. A life coach is a professional who provides need
ed support and guidance to realize your own potential and enables you to reach a goal or make a change in your life. A life coach plays a role of a motivator that push you to reach your full potential, a strategist that helps re-focus your thinking to make sure you’re going about it in an effective and meaningful way. A life coach is someone who will keep you accountable for reaching your goals and making positive changes. A life coach try to help you find what feels right for you by helping you reveal the answers to yourself through discussion, suggestions, brainstorming and reflection. A life coach will focus mostly on looking toward your future, rather than dealing primarily with your past. A life coach will focus on solutions that are more in alignment with the coachee. What Does a Life Coach Do?
• Help You Identify Goals
• Help You Achieve Your Goals
• Guide You Through Changes and Obstacles
• Guide you through a life transition
• Give You Permission to Follow Your Dreams
• Guide you on How to Make the Right Decisions for Yourself
What Does a Life Coach Not Do? Coaches usually don’t give advice or tell you what to do. Coaches do not focus on the past. Coaches do not focus on the problem
Coaches is not consultant, athletic coach or best friend
Types of coaching:
• Performance coaching. Coaching activities here are aimed at enhancing an individual’s performance in their current role at work, to increase their effectiveness and productivity at work. Generally, performance coaching derives its theoretical underpinnings and models from business and sports psychology as well as general psychological theory.
• Skills coaching. This form of coaching focuses on the core skills an employee needs to perform in their role. Skills coaching provide a flexible, adaptive, ‘just-in-time’ approach to skills development. Coaching programs are tailored specifically to the individual and are generally focused on achieving a number of skill development objectives that are linked to the needs of the organization.
• Career Coaching. Coaching activities focus on the individual’s career concerns, with the coach eliciting and using feedback on the individual’s capabilities as part of a discussion of career options. The process should lead to increased clarity, personal change and forward action.
• Personal or life coaching. This form of coaching provides support to individuals wishing to make some form of significant changes happen within their lives. Coaches help individuals to explore what they want in life and how they might achieve their aspirations and fulfill their needs. Personal/life coaching generally takes the individual’s agenda as its start point.
• Business coaching. Business coaching is always conducted within the constraints placed on the individual or group by the organizational context.
• Executive coaching: One to one performance coaching is increasingly being recognized as the way for organizations and individuals to improve performance. By improving the performance of the most influential people within the organization, the theory goes that business results should improve. Coaches operating from outside the organization whose services are requested for an agreed duration or numbers of coaching sessions often deliver executive coaching.
• Team facilitation: Coaching in the role of a facilitator is particularly valuable during the budget and strategy-planning season. And coaching a team before a presentation can dramatically improve performance – as well as self-confidence.
• Work shadowing: As well as being a means of identifying an individual's behavior and performance, work shadowing is an excellent method of getting immediate feedback on behavior, with a discussion of alternative ways of handling future such situations.
