Coaching for individuals and groups

Benefits from being coached

	-	Clarity and awareness
	-	Conscious, effective learning
	-	Improved skills
	-	Save space to explore
	-	Sustainable personal development
	-	Increased performance
	-	Using potential fully

How is coaching done?

	-	Asking questions which make you think outside all your boxes
	-	Real listening to what you say and what you are not saying
	-	Sound boarding
Depending on the situation:
	-	Setting goals and make them happen

Definitions by other Coaches

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. (Whitmore 2002)

Coaching is the art of facilitating the performance, learning and development of another.(Downey 1999)

Coaching is a pragmatic humanism. Coaching values well-being and fulfilment. It emphasizes self-care, quality of life and human growth. I call this the “being side”. Coaching is also a method to enhance performance and a leadership style that gets results. This I call the “doing” side. (Rosinski 2003)

The role of the coach is to enable the coachee to explore, to gain a better understanding, to become more aware and from that place to make a better decision than they would have made anyway. (Downey 2002)

In a coaching culture coaching is the predominant style of managing and working together, and where a commitment to grow the organisation is embedded in a parallel commitment to grow the people in the organisation. (Clutterbuck, Megginson 2005)

Coaching is two people engaged together in raising the awareness of one of them, and therefore their ability to act. (John Leary Joyce)

A coach recognizes that the internal obstacles are often more daunting than the external ones. (Whitmore 1992)

The principal instruments of coaching are silence, questions and challenge. (McLeod, 2001)

And I'd like to recommend "The inner game" books by Timothey Gallwey if you are interested to read more. His books are a great way to start exploring and learning.