What is coaching?
How is coaching different from .... ?
Where does coaching come from originally?
What are benefits of coaching?
What is NLP?
What are the presuppositions of coaching?
What are your coaching ethics?

What is coaching?
Everybody wants to know how they can be better, how can they improve and be the best they can be. Coaching is the answer.

Coaching is not telling people what to do; it is helping them clarify and control their life. It is helping them evaluate what they are doing now in their life in the light of their goals, dreams, values and intentions. It gives them new choices and leads to change. Coaching helps a person go beyond the mental blocks of what they thought was possible.

Coaching works as a partnership between coach and client, it helps to clarify goals, to make them challenging and motivating, then to achieve those goals with the energy that comes from their deepest values.

Coaches are specially trained to work with people in all walks of life to help them achieve their goals, live their values and be the best they can be.
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How is coaching different from ....?

Counseling and therapy are to remedy the client’s problems. The client comes to therapy or counseling because they feel dissatisfied with their life and want relief from psychological and/or physical symptoms. They want to get away from pain or discomfort rather than move towards desired goals. Therapy and counseling often seek to understand the past and what went wrong in order to be better in the present. Coaching focuses on the present and future.

Training and teaching involve the transfer of skills and knowledge to the learner. The trainer or teacher is the expert. In coaching, the coach is not the expert, coaching does not give answers, but asks questions. Coaching explores the present and designs the future for the client. The client learns in the process, but the coach does not teach directly.

Mentoring is where a senior person in the business guides a junior person from their greater experience. A coach does not have to be a senior person in the client’s line of business. The client has to know the business, not the coach.

Consultancy deals with the business system as a whole. A consultant's recommendations affect individuals indirectly. Coaching affects individuals directly. Coaching will very often be part of a consultant’s recommendations for a business.
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Where does coaching come from originally?
The word was first used in sports for a person who helped an athlete train and improve. All top athletes have a personal coach. From there, the idea spread to all walks of life. A significant event in this expansion was the publication of Timothy Gallwey’s book, ‘The Inner game of Tennis.’ This book used ideas from sports coaching in a much wider way.
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What are benefits of coaching?
Individuals will be clear about what they want from life. They will go after it with passion, because they have cleared away the obstacles that blocked them.

They will have a more satisfying and happier life in every aspect. Professionally, they will be more effective and skilled at their work and get better results.

Organisations see coaching as a long-term investment in higher business performance. It is the most cost effective way of getter higher performance from key individuals. Coaching is evidence of the company’s commitment to developing its people and contributes to a supportive organisational culture with high morale.

"I believe that people will NEVER reach their maximum capabilities without a coach" Bob, CEO.

"I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable" John, MD.
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What is NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
NLP has been developed during the last forty years, from the study of the most successful people in therapy, business, sports, the arts and many other aspects of life. What has been discovered is that there is a common thread amongst the highest achieving people. This model of achievement can be used by you to make the realisation of your dreams and goals a reality.

The coaching methods that I use have their foundations in NLP. This enables you to understand your values, set your goals, undertake decisive action and overcome any barriers in your way.
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What are the presuppositions of coaching?
For more information about the presuppositions of coaching please click here
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What are your coaching ethics?
Please click here to download the full copy of EMCC Code of Ethics
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