FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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What is Coaching?
A: 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. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership. We all have goals we want to reach, challenges we’re striving to overcome and times when we feel stuck. Partnering with a coach can change your life, setting you on a path to greater personal and professional fulfillment.
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What do coaches believe?
A: Coaches have the underlying belief that every individual has the ability to find solutions to their challenges from within themselves. They just need someone to help them discover and uncover those solutions.
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Who sets the agenda for a coaching session?
A: The client always sets the agenda. The best agenda is often specific, accessible, exciting, stretched and anchored to the future and the client’s overall goal. The coach holds no brief for the client’s agenda and approaches every session from a learner’s mindset.
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What can coaching help you with?
A: A coach’s role is that of one who holds the belief that the client has unlimited potential to achieve their goal and live their true potential. To achieve his / her goal and live their true potential. A good coach can help you with living your true potential in many ways. Some of these are:
• Greater self-awareness
• Greater impact
• Easier Transitions
• Clarity and alignment – Purpose
• Harnessing a growth mindset
• Synergy, effectiveness and impact of leadership team
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What does a coach do?
A: A coach holds the space of total acceptance for themselves and for their client as they facilitate the client’s self-discovery and re-connection to their inner-most truths about themselves – their qualities, their gifts and their life purpose. The coach also helps the client with their conscious alignment and their inner-most truths in their everyday decisions and actions. The coach’s role is to raise the level of consciousness of the client through questions that allow the client to choose what they want, what they are prepared to do and what they are prepared to commit to themselves in the present moment.
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What does a coach not do?
A: A coach does not advise, rescue, get involved in the client’s problems, set the agenda for the client, sit in judgement of the coachee or his/her specific challenges, dictate the solution and the timing of the coachee’s journey.
Reference these and other frequently asked coaching questions in the article FAQ: What is Coaching? And other frequently asked questions. - The Core Questin by Rameet Arora.