Coaching draws on many different influences. For most people the word itself is connected with sporting activities and it is easy to understand how the relationship between performer and coach works in that setting. The sporting connection also offers some useful comparisons that can help make the case for coaching. Sports coaches are rarely better [...]
Coaching is a partnership between a coach and an individual that supports the achievement of results, based on goals set by the individual. The individual chooses the focus of the âconversationâ, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions as well as concepts and principles which can assist in generating possibilities, potential and actions. [...]
Itâs time for a breakthrough. Recently, Iâve been sharing with you about mine. It started with the realization that I was falling into the same trap I hear others experiencing (e.g., succumbing to the negative news and economic doom and gloom). As my eyes were opened, I have been working diligently to correct my stinking [...]
A few years ago I happened to pass by my boyfriend’s phone when it was ringing and I saw a girl’s name appear on the screen. At 11pm. I then realised how often he took his phone with him into the bathroom or how he got text messages without spontaneously telling me who they were [...]
Health coaching is a collaborative and personalized program that focuses on improving health and wellness. Health Coaching builds an individualâs capacity to achieve short- and long-term health and fitness goals. Participants in a health coaching program interact one-on-one with their health coach by telephone, instant messenger, email and online journal. Frequently Asked Questions About Health [...]
A Health and Wellness Coach can help you: Imagine that your members interacted with a health and wellness coach every day. With consistent personalized attention, members would become more dedicated to their fitness regimen, feel better about themselves and their health, and be more satisfied with your fitness centerâall of which makes them more likely [...]
What do you need to do and know about telephone coaching? Contrary to The United States, telephone coaching is a rather new phenomenon in Europe. Most coaches still conduct only face-to-face sessions. During mentor coaching and other coach services I offer I have encountered that most coaches do not really know how to prepare themselves [...]
The current trend is for an increase in coaching and mentoring in the workplace. Coaching and mentoring, whether on an executive level or for overall staff, are increasingly being recognised as important in employee development. It is acknowledged by senior management in many organisations that their company will thrive if they offer some form of [...]
Top performers in every area from sports through arts to business have coaches to help them reach and maintain the highest levels of performance.
The benefits of coaching
Just imagine a combination of your best friend, your most cherished teacher, your most hard-nosed manager, and your most positive guru available and committed to your personal development.
How much [...]
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
Bill McCartney
Life Coaching is not new.
Life Coaching as a profession started in the 1980s. Then, it catered more to executives or managers. Now, this profession has developed to cover a lot of areas from helping people choose the right career options to managing [...]