Monday, November 12, 2007

What is Coaching? NOT


What is coaching?

Lets talk about what it is not.

Professional Coaching is not:

Telling

Feedback

Correction

Suggestion

Thinking for

Teaching

Mentoring

Manipulating

Managing

Cajoling

Training


If you are doing any of these things and calling it coaching, you have a big problem.

If you have problem with that statement then you have an even bigger problem.

True Professional Coaching has only one definition:

Finding out what someone really wants and assisting them to get it

Everything else is something else

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