How Coaching Is Used in Organizations
Often when people first think of coaching, they think about sports coaching. Sports coaching was considered the traditional domain of coaching for many years. However, for the last 30 years coaching has evolved to demonstrate great benefit for both individuals and organizations. Modern professional coaching is now used by thousands of organizations to increase productivity, […]
Continue readingWhat is the GROW Model for Coaching?
Professional coaching offers many excellent benefits to clients whether working on personal, career, performance, wellness or relationship issues. All professionally trained coaches have various processes or coaching structures to work from. Without a solid structure, coaching becomes haphazard where the coach ends up guessing or just using their gut on how to work with […]
Continue readingInternal Coaching vs External Coaching
When organizations are considering offering coaching they often are confused about the difference between internal coaching and external coaching. The short definition is Internal Coaching is using an existing employees as coaches while external coaching is hiring coaches outside of your organization.While both can be effective, choosing between internal coaching and external coaching first requires […]
Continue readingProfessional Life Coach or Seat of The Pants Coach; What are You?
Important Distinctions of a Professional Life CoachOne issue the coaching industry wrestles with is that anyone can hang up a shingle and call themselves a Professional Life Coach. Fair enough, as currently, coaching is not a regulated profession. As a matter of fact, right now the only place that has any requirement is the state […]
Continue readingHow to Become a Life Coach: A Basic Introduction
A coach is someone who helps other people become clear on what they truly want in life, as well as helping them cope with challenges that get in the way. If you are excited at the prospect of helping others while earning a healthy living, then this article is a good place to start. As […]
Continue readingHow To Find A Life Coach That Is A Good Match For You
Some basic steps on how to find a life coach. Are you ready to make changes in your life? Do you have a major goal you want to achieve? If so, you could be a perfect candidate for life coaching. Hiring a professional life coach or executive coach is one of the biggest trends in […]
Continue readingMentoring and Coaching: What is the Difference?
Understanding Five Differences between Mentoring and CoachingPeople often speak of Mentoring and Coaching as being the same. To add to this confusion, a person may become a life coach because of a desire to “mentor” others. However, Mentoring and Coaching are quite different and to confuse these terms can produce negative results. For clients to […]
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What is Coaching? A Frequently Googled Question
Four Points to understand what is coaching.First, let’s consider an overview of what is coaching.Coaching is a confidential, energetic relationship, of exploring a client’s personal, professional goals and values to an agreed upon outcome. CC 2016 (Joe Houghton) While most people have an idea of what coaching is, the art of professional coaching is a […]
Continue readingCoaching and Mentoring – The Process Of Personal Growth
8 Fundamental Steps Used In Coaching and MentoringHuman beings have one thing in common; the internal drive to become better, achieve more, enjoy our talents and to be of value to others. This evolution is known as ‘The Personal Growth Process.” The difficulty so many people have with this process is the lack of a […]
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