I wanted to write a text that would cover the topic exhaustively, refer to professional literature, and be a hefty tome of knowledge, collecting dust on a shelf. But then I remembered I’d probably have to force myself to read it.
So I’ll spare you a list of definitions and repeating what you can easily find in books or other professional articles on coaching. The only reference I’ll use is the International Coaching Federation website:
There you’ll find the definition of coaching, standards, and the code of ethics for the coaching profession, under which I work every day as an ICF-accredited coach. I refer you to these resources with full confidence. Instead, I’ll return to my point: rather than boring you with an encyclopedic entry on coaching, I’ll tell you what I do as a coach.
What I do as a coach:
- Set clear rules of cooperation and establish boundaries for coaching.
- Treat the client (Coachee) as an independent individual fully in charge of themselves.
- Accept the Coachee completely, with everything that constitutes them at that moment.
- Walk alongside the Coachee on a partnership basis, supporting their journey to discover their own plans, solutions, and answers.
- Ask coaching questions and propose perspective shifts – stimulating creative and unconventional thinking that leads to new areas.
- Observe and, with the Coachee’s consent, share my observations.
- Use my intuition and, with the Coachee’s consent, share what arises on the horizon of thoughts and emotions.
- Appreciate the Coachee for their efforts.
- Highlight what is good and valuable in them.
- Respond to what is most important to the Coachee at the moment.
- Accompany them in what is difficult.
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What I don’t do:
- Give advice. Because I cannot create anything better for the Coachee than they can for themselves.
- Judge. Because I accept.
- Diagnose. Because that’s what other specialists are for.