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What Is Coaching?

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Coaching is a dialogue between a coach and a leader with the intention of finding creative ways to address challenging problems, improve team and unit performance, accelerate progress on key initiatives, and advance the leader’s career.

 

Coaching is a collaboration between coach and client, a mutual creative process that increases awareness, and by doing so, sheds light on a wider range of possibilities and existing but obstructed choices. Goals are determined by the client and can be concrete or vague, needing further exploration. The coach offers a safe space to hold the client’s experience of self and their relationship with the world.

 

Within this space, discovery is encouraged through attending and offering questions, observations, silences, and experimentation. The coach often draws attention to the present moment with the awareness that the client brings to this moment their future aspirations as well as all of their history and socialization within layers of systems. Respect is given to a client’s unique, individual, cultural, and societal contexts.

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