What Is Coaching

In my coaching practice, a common question I get from most of my clients is what exactly is coaching and how it’s different from other practices like Counselling, Consulting or Training. It’s very normal for people, who are not directly involved in these professions to get confused between these practices as there is no global standardization about the various terminologies which are commonly used by different practioners in different ways to suit their requirements.

Organisations like ICF (https://coachingfederation.org/) and EMCC (https://www.emccglobal.org/) have tried to standardize various practices especially coaching.

?As per ICF definition “Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential”

To put it in a simpler way – Coaching involves helping your client think clearly with a focus to achieve some tangible goals. As a coach I will not push my opinions on the client and will always encourage coachee to come up with solutions for which he is responsible & accountable.

So how is coaching different from other allied practices?

??????????????The prime focus of coaching is to help the clients tap into his potential, realise their capabilities, strengths & overcome any limiting beliefs to achieve the goals they desire in life. The whole process is client centric, and client is believed to be expert of his / her life, creative, resourceful, and whole.

While other practices such as Counselling, Consulting or Training focus on imparting a specialised knowledge that only the practioner has & it’s supposed that client is not aware of this knowledge & needs to be educated. Of course there is nothing wrong with these practices because when it comes to very specific domain knowledge, client needs to seek help from the experts of specific fields.

Depending upon the ?requirements , a person can choose what suits him / her the best .

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