What is Coaching?

About Coaching​

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as "partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential".

 

Coaching is:

• Client-led: you are the source of wisdom in your own life

• Utilizing inner resources to get to your desired future (point A to point B)

• Identifying and removing blocks that are getting in your way

• Action-oriented and accountability-based

 

Coaching isn't:

• Coach-led, e.g., 

  • Consulting: "this is how you should do it"

  • Mentorship/Role Model: "this is how I did it"

• Therapy: identifying and understanding past pain and emotions and employing mechanisms to improve one's mental health

• Friendship: as your coach, I may sometimes challenge your thought and behavior patterns to enable new ways of approaching a situation