What coaching actually is?
“Coaching is a partnership with clients, stimulating thoughtful and creative open processes aiming to fulfill customers personal and professional development” - this is how ICF coaching is defined in its Code of Ethics.
For me, coaching is first of all a clearly structured process with a predetermined and agreed result and verification with it. Coaching is always about moving from point A, where the client is at the moment, to point B, where he wants to come. It is important that this movement takes place both within the framework of the entire coaching support, and within the framework of each individual coach session taken, and in life.
How it works?
Coaching is mainly based on a holistic perception of the personality of his client and all areas of life. In order to achieve this, coach needs to work on three levels – verbal, non-verbal and paraverbal. Only tracking and combinig these three levels indeed deep results can be reached.
In his process coach uses various tools and techniques, but above all - questions that stimulate the client to find a solution to his key task. With their help, coach reflects the client from different perspectives and helps to see capabilities, features and opportunities that the client did not previously realise.
For me, a good coach is a person who substitutes crystal-clear mirrors aroung customer helping him to see himself from different angles without distortions and interpretations.
