I’m reaching back to a blog post from 2014 which dove into how to define coaching. I think it’s as appropriate and important to revisit today as it was years ago. Let’s take a look at what I wrote:
l sorts of behaviors get “labelled” coaching in today’s business environment. I often hear a wide range of descriptors when I deliver coaching skills training with leaders - new, seasoned, and emerging leaders.
After leading dozens of coaching skills training over the years one of my favorite coaching descriptions comes from a former SME , Doug McLaren, who I co-faciltiated with for years. As he said, Co-Facilitation is a “Conversation with Intent”. You can find more about what I write about coaching for leaders in chapter 10 of in my latest book From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching.
Whether you are a leader coaching their team, and internal coach “professionally coaching “ others, or an external coach working with a team:
What coaching is…..
A conversation with intent
Focused on the present and geared towards the future
Focused on performance and relationships
Grounded in awareness, goals and action
Elicits what the person being coached knows
What coaching is not….
Simply a conversation with no direction
Focused on the past
Navel gazing
Telling others what to do
Mentoring, Advising, Consulting
In fact, the International Coach Federation identifies competencies for coaching, in which all coaching models should be grounded. These range from ethics, to designing the coaching agreement, to listening, goal setting and planning, designing actions, and creating awareness. Personally, I use these in all training of coaches I undertake - leaders, as well as the thousands of coaches I have supported in the last fifteen years as they develop their own group and team coaching work.
How do you define what coaching is? What coaching is not? Why is this important in your work?
Enjoy the conversation,
Jennifer
l sorts of behaviors get “labelled” coaching in today’s business environment. I often hear a wide range of descriptors when I deliver coaching skills training with leaders - new, seasoned, and emerging leaders.
After leading dozens of coaching skills training over the years one of my favorite coaching descriptions comes from a former SME , Doug McLaren, who I co-faciltiated with for years. As he said, Co-Facilitation is a “Conversation with Intent”. You can find more about what I write about coaching for leaders in chapter 10 of in my latest book From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching.
Whether you are a leader coaching their team, and internal coach “professionally coaching “ others, or an external coach working with a team:
What coaching is…..
A conversation with intent
Focused on the present and geared towards the future
Focused on performance and relationships
Grounded in awareness, goals and action
Elicits what the person being coached knows
What coaching is not….
Simply a conversation with no direction
Focused on the past
Navel gazing
Telling others what to do
Mentoring, Advising, Consulting
In fact, the International Coach Federation identifies competencies for coaching, in which all coaching models should be grounded. These range from ethics, to designing the coaching agreement, to listening, goal setting and planning, designing actions, and creating awareness. Personally, I use these in all training of coaches I undertake - leaders, as well as the thousands of coaches I have supported in the last fifteen years as they develop their own group and team coaching work.
How do you define what coaching is? What coaching is not? Why is this important in your work?
Enjoy the conversation,
Jennifer
Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326
Check out my TEDx talk
Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.
Potentials Realized |Reconnecting Workspaces | Group Coaching Essentials
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Instagram @ReconnectingWorkspaces
Phone: (416)996-8326
Check out my TEDx talk
Looking to bring your workplaces back together, whether you are remote, hybrid, or face-to-face? Pick up a copy of my new book, Reconnecting Workspaces, at Amazon.
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