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- what is coaching
What is coaching?
“the art of facilitating the performance,
learning and development of another.” (Downey, 2003)
A coach recognises your ability to achieve
and simply guides you to unlock your potential. You take the
responsibility to change your life whilst the coach motivates
you and provides you with tools to reach your personal goals
by raising your awareness about beliefs and behaviours that
have been holding you back.
What it isn’t
Coaching is often confused with counselling
and mentoring but there are some distinct differences.
A mentor imparts knowledge or advises whilst
in coaching you are facilitated to come to a solution. In coaching
we recognise that you have to be committed to take forward an
action and, for this to work, you must own the answer.
A counsellor focuses on the past to increase
your understanding of how you have got to where you are now.
Coaching focuses on the future and encourages you to take action
so you can reach your goal step-by-step and move on to better
and greater things.
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