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All About Coaching

What is Coaching?

More and more, coaching is used by progressive organizations as well as individuals to get real results. But what is coaching and how does it get those results?

Essentially, coaching facilitates performance by emphasizing self-awareness on the part of the client along with a "learning-by-doing-and-then-reviewing" approach. It is a unique kind of collaboration that increases clarity and learning and gets results with less effort, in less time. A basic coaching conversation can happen between co-workers, friends, or even parents and their children. Professional coaching usually includes a comprehensive assessment plus an ongoing commitment to a series of coaching sessions. This is especially true when an individual wants support during long-term projects or when significant change is involved, such as a shift in careers.

With coaching, both the coach and the coachee are peers in the process. The coach is not an advice-giver with all the answers, rather, coaching is a partnership in discovery. By intensely listening, asking effective questions, and offering sincere encouragement, the coach facilitates the process for the person to learn his or her own answers and then to take responsibility for acting on them. Coaching is the truest form of empowerment.

Getting Results

When a caring professional coaches someone, several things can happen:

Awareness increases about objectives, current reality, and motivation.
Responsibility grows when the individual decides what needs to be done next and then commits to doing it in the presence of his or her coach.
Results that matter naturally flow in the form of learning, performance and confidence.

For more information, please contact Kennedy & Company at:
206-783-6829 or info@ResultsThatMatter.com