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At the
conference of The International Coach Federation in
November 2003, Anthony Grant said, ‘Coaching aims to
enhance well being, improve performance and facilitate
individual human and organisational change.’ According
to The International Coach Federation, ‘Professional
coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help
clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and
professional lives.’ Sir John Whitmore states in his
book 'Coaching for Performance, 2004' that, ‘Coaching is
an intervention that has as its underlying and ever-present
goal the building of others' self-belief, regardless of
the content of the task or issue. Coaching is not merely
a technique, it is way of managing, a way of treating
people, a way thinking, a way of being. Coaching is
unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own
performance. It is helping them to learn rather than
teaching them.’
Coaching is a process during which a coach helps a
client to help himself /herself to improve his/her life;
the client is the expert on themselves. Coaching is a
collaborative relationship that focuses on clients/coachees
developing action plans for change and taking action
toward their goals personally or professionally in a
particular area of their lives. Coaching is a result
oriented process.
Coaches facilitate performance and learning and they aim
to enhance the quality of their clients' lives. Coaches
listen, observe and customize their coaching approach to
individual client's needs. ‘They seek to elicit
solutions and strategies from the client; they believe
the client is creative and resourceful. The coach's job
is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources
and creativity that the client already has’ (Anthony
Grant, 2003). Coaching is a client-centered, future
oriented and outcome-oriented process. Coaches provide
tools, structure, support and feedback and they
encourage the clients. ‘Coaches facilitate the
enhancement of work performance, life experience, self
directed learning and personal growth of the coachee’ (Anthony
Grant, 2003). They help clients set goals and reach
those goals so that the clients improve their
performance in a particular area, enhance the quality of
their lives and move forward.
During coaching the emphasis is on setting and achieving
goals relevant to the client and his/her experience,knowledge
and career; every client is unique. People may come to
coaching for a variety of reasons, coaching does not
seek to resolve any underlying psychological problems
Mehtap Tamer Psychologist
www.yasamatolyesi.biz
mehtap.tamer@yasamatolyesi.biz |
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