What is Coaching?

What is
Coaching?

“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 partnership between coach and client.

The coach helps the client to achieve their personal best and to produce the results they want in their personal and professional lives. Coaching ensures the client can give their best, learn and develop in the way they wish.

Tony Robbins once said -

Your quality of life is your quality of questions.

And that is where a coach comes handy. A coach believes that the answers to all your problems lie within you. You just need the right direction to see them and dig deep into them. A coach asks you powerful questions and helps you seek answers from within you. He/She helps you reach a state where you are able to take actions and achieve the best results.

The beauty of coaching is that it makes you self sustainable because it not only helps you to solve the issue taken up in coaching but empowers you to seek answers from within and solve any challenge that you may face in the future.

Benefits to coaching an
individual:

• Improvement in individual’s performance, targets and goals.
• Increased openness to personal learning and development.
• Increased ability to identify solutions to specific work-related issues.
• Greater ownership and responsibility.
• Development of self-awareness.
• Improvement of specific skills or behavior.
• Greater clarity in roles and objectives.
• The opportunity to correct behavior/performance difficulties.

Benefits of coaching to an organization:

• Allows fuller use of individual’s talents/potential.
• Demonstrates commitment to individuals and their development.
• Higher organizational performance/productivity.
• Increased creativity, learning and knowledge.
• Motivates people.
• Facilitates the adoption of a new culture/management style.
• Improves relationships between people and departments.