| Coaching For Values and Purposes |
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| Written by Rita Thompson | ||||||
| Tuesday, 23 August 2005 | ||||||
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The growing profession of coaching is meeting a long-awaited need for many people who would like to move forward and take action but find themselves "stuck". "Something for healthy people” coupled with the positive psychology emphasis on “What is good about a person?” helps make coaching a professional service useful to anyone not needing therapy. Therapy looks for a cause and a cure. In the coaching relationship There is no analyzing, probing for cause or diagnosis. The coaching relationship is all about what the client wants to achieve. People seek coaching for many reasons, especially balance, focus and purpose in life. There are coaches specializing in almost any niche. The coaches who have an earnest desire to help people and are trained in accredited Coaching Programs, such as Mentorcoach L.L.C. and the International Coaching Federation develop valuable skills necessary for a good coaching relationship. Honoring or acknowledging a person’s values and inner strengths in a coaching relationship helps that person achieve goals and purposes meaningful to them. That’s the client’s agenda for which the coach is listening , structuring, asking questions, and to which the coach is holding the client accountable. In a good coaching relationship there is no blame, shame or game-playing. The coach is direct, active and honest. The client is held to commitment to their values, inner strengths and purpose in life. It becomes a powerful, vibrant, moving and beneficial experience. Many important factors influence one’s choice of coach. The one I want to address now is choose a coach who is being coached. You can be more certain of receiving responsible professional service from a coach who knows personally its value. The coach who is being coached exemplifies caring responsibility to the service of helping with the client’s agenda. The coach’s agenda is met elsewhere and the client can be more assured of receiving the benefits of a good coaching relationship. The responsible coach is continually learning to be of better service. Thus you can think in terms of the person you are hiring being totally committed to your values, inner strengths, balance, focus and purpose in life. You will know as you receive coaching that there is no other relationship like it. Credits to: www.mentorcoach.com. and “Co-Active Coaching”, Whitworth, Kimsey-House, Sandahl, Davies-Black Publishing, 1998 Essay by:
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