Coaching is a very new profession, it is just over thirty years old, and in Spain some less. It was born out of sport when Timothy Gallwey saw that elite athletes needed to work their minds as well as their bodies for optimal results. I'm going to tell you what it is, what it is not for and what it is for coaching.
Later, he thought that the same could be done with senior executives to improve the economic results of companies, and that is where the profession of coach was born.
In the 1990s, the idea began to spread that not only top executives could benefit from Coaching, that it could actually help anyone, whether in their professional or personal life.
The truth is that a person is a whole, if his personal life does not work well, this will affect his work and vice versa. By helping to improve people's well-being, Coaching has become a tool that increases performance and the degree of satisfaction in general, that is why it is so important to understand what we can expect from a Coaching Process.
What is Coaching
According to the ICF, International Coaching Federation, "Coaching is collaboration with clients in a creative and idea-generating process that helps them maximize their personal and professional potential."
According to Sir John Whitmore, one of the “fathers” of modern coaching, “Coaching is about unlocking a person's potential to maximize performance. It's about helping him learn rather than teaching him. "
There is no official definition, there are as many definitions as there are coaches, and I think this leads to confusion on the part of the public.
What is Coaching not for?
Coaching is not used to work on psychology, spiritual guidance, teaching, counseling, consulting, mentoring, or to give advice…
Let's say there are two streams:
- That of the coaches who think that a Coaching process should never be mixed with the delivery of information, that Coaching should be clean. It is the classic current, for many the only valid one, that of the coaches who think that having information that can be valuable for the client, understand that the client pays them to get the most out of it and sometimes they can provide some information, although that is, advising the client that in that lapse they stop working on Coaching, so that the client is not confused.
In both cases the coach never gives advice, it is the client who will find his own answers.
What is the purpose of coaching
- So that starting from your current situation, and through sessions in which you will increase your performance and your level of consciousness, you reach the situation that you had desired at the beginning of the process, in a previously determined time.
Depending on your goal at the time, it also works:
- To achieve goals or break down obstacles To discover your potential and get the most out of it To change or introduce habits that lead to the desired results To work on your emotions and resolve conflictive situations To overcome fears and blockages, and your personal challenges. To improve your quality of life and your time management. To improve your social skills and your relationships. "To become the best version of yourself."
You don't have to be bad to be helped, we have to break that old myth. It is about looking for a specialist in the achievement of objectives or "coach", who helps us reach our goals much faster than we would do it alone, and also without suffering. Although yes, the coaches help but they will not do it for us. You have to make an effort, there are no miracles.
“You can teach a man nothing; just help him find it himself ”Galileo Galilei.
