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What is ‘Coaching’?

A rather different from our everyday understanding on the term ‘training’, "coaching" is simply the process of helping people develop their capacity to think about things (such as problems, people, relationships, customers, products, services, businesses, and even the future) and act accordingly in new and creative ways so that they can accomplish what they really want to accomplish.

Nowadays, coaching has an important role in the building and sustaining of great organizations and corporations. People who want to accomplish great things often get stuck along the way. Coaching helps people get un-stuck. An example of this is that while many leaders, executives, and managers in organizations seem to "know" intuitively what they need to do in moving forward, few of them actually follow through because they're stuck in some way. In this very way, coaching helps professionals focus on the things that are contributing to their ‘being stuck’, and then move beyond them.

The indication of a successful coaching process and experience involves several elements:

· An individual/group/team freely requesting/choosing to be coached and making themselves "coachable"
· A fully competent coach who is fully committed to the success of this person/group/team
· Clarity and a clear sense of urgency by the individual/group/team about a commitment to something specific and big
· A choice and commitment to continue learning through discipline and practice

As having exercised over time, most corporations practice the so-called "Contextual Coaching". Basically, contextual coaching takes place through a committed relationship between the coach and the person (or group/team). Contextual coaching is listening to how the person thinks about things and experiences the situation at hand (listening for context and commitment), then helping the person learn to think about the situation in new ways so they can create new solutions to problems they might have considered insurmountable. Contextual coaching is about helping people develop their capacity to create new possibilities for themselves.  

Professionals  Coaching?

Most of today organizations are complex and people request coaching for many reasons. Generally it comes down to a person or team having the sense that "they can't get 'there' from here" because of "some reason." Sometimes people have "that sense" that they can't accomplish what they really want, whether the goal is personal, a major organizational objective, or something in between. Coaching is a very useful and powerful approach to use in these situations. Teams and individuals need a clear picture of success. Teams and their individual members must have the capacity for being trusting and productive --individually and collectively. Coaching helps people establish and maintain trust and values, clarify their purpose (make it come alive), and develop individual and collective capacity to reach goals. Successful coaching helps people set themselves up for great success.