The goal of coaching is to make you a more balanced and fulfilled person as you also experience success.

A coach helps you remove those obstacles, beliefs that are impeding you to be successful. Just like a sports coach, the coach will uncover the hidden potential within, those great capabilities you already have but that you have not fully developed.

What is Coaching?
What is not Coaching?

 

  • A means for learning and development.
  • Guiding someone toward her or his goals.
  • The mutual sharing of experiences and opinions to create agreed-upon outcomes.
  • About inspiring and supporting another person

 

  • An opportunity to correct someone’s behaviors or actions.
  • Directing someone to do something to meet goals.
  • Being the expert or supervisor with all the answers.
  • About trying to address personal issues.

Coaching vs. Managing

Coaching
Managing

 

Focus On:

  • Exploring.
  • Facilitating.
  • Partnership.
  • Long-term development.
  • Open to many possible outcomes.

 

Focus On:

  • Telling.
  • Directing.
  • Authority.
  • Immediate needs.
  • Typically want one specific outcome.