A few definitions...
"Coaching is a new healthy therapy . Although being psychological healthy, there are sometimes difficult times when you need help and advice without any desire to lie and undertake an analysis over many years. Not interested in the past or injuries from the time of our layered pants, with the Coaching we'd rather try to analyze the present and prepare for a better future. A therapist who will play the role of your best friend, who will say things that no one would dare telling you, who will listen to you, who will lead you... You may be asked between each meeting to read, do sports… "
Yolande De BIGNE in the program « QUELLE EPOQUE EPIQUE » at France Info on January 22, 1999.
"Coaching gives you a boost to the progress, it is a catalyst, allowing you to better refocus and refine your choices. Coaching takes care of you in today world and where you want to go tomorrow. The process of Coaching helps you to define and perform your professional and personal goals faster and much more easily than it is otherwise possible. "
International Coaching Federation (one of the agencies most representative Coaching in the USA)
"Any competitor, before they can claim an edge over his/her opponents, must first face the opponent inside himself (internal obstacles), much stronger. "
Timothy GALLWEY
"The purpose of training is to work to liberate your potential to reach its level of performance. It is about learning to learn by yourself, rather than being urged to remember outside knowledge. "
John WHITMORE
"The coach assumed that you are responsible for your own choices, expert of yourself, that you can change and become the actor of your own change. A Prince longing to be awaken, provided he receives adequate assistance "
Vincent LENHARDT
The coach is not your savior, he does not consider you as a victim. The coach will give you from time to time a "fish", but in most cases he will help you "build your own fishing rod", with this constant desire to help you find solution of your own.
Johann
A collaboration
It is, first of all, a relationship of trust, mutual trust without which nothing can be achieved.
It is a relationship between 2 people based on respect and a non-judgemental state of mind, where each of us has its own view of his surrounding world, its own resources and its own needs.
The cooperation is to develop a common project.
This is not a program that the Coach forces you to follow, this project is your adventure.
The Coach does not push you forward, he does not pull you either, he follows you right next to you.
You decide which path to take, he accompanies you to facilitate your success and your efficiency before leaving you independently.
This collaboration aims at:
* Increasing and enriching your vision.
* Helping you get in touch with your resources.
* Enhancing information about yourself.
* Making the smallest change, finding out the smallest action needed for you which lead to bigger change.
Easy actions to undertake, concrete and motivating actions that trigger you, which will in a natural chain reaction, lead you to far more important changes. It is a time for collaboration and co-creation. It is a time to step back and improve awareness, to see, if necessary, the events in a different way in order to decide and act in a better way.
In the context of private and professional coaching and sports, the Coach is responsible for the framework and the means used to help you achieve your goal.
You are responsible, particularly in the private and professional coaching, of the content (your thinking, your experience, your reasons, your failures and your successes, your ressources ...) and of the putting it into action.
In this relationship, you should feel free to:
* Tell or don't tell
* Do or don't do
* Accept or don't accept
An art !
Neither the Coach nor you has the solution.
It emerges through the relationship, in this space-time and personal awareness offer by the coaching, which allows the person to reposition himself, to consider the problem differently, as well as his relationship with this problem.
And if the customer endorses the solution, it is precisely because he is actively involved in its development.
The Coaching is always in a process of progress and positive change.
This change will only be sustainable if:
* The coach takes into account the totality of the person
* The development of the person does not conflict or contradict with its complex environment (internal and external)
A professional coach :
* Is a trained general coach and better, has experience in this profession.
* Has an ethics, and show it.
* Has done a therapeutic work on himself for his shadow areas, or has done some work on personal development, so he is aware of the required steps you are about to discover.
* Regularly meets with a supervisor.
* Knows how to make a diagnosis on his client.
* Masters the tools he uses.
The 3 most important qualities of a coach:
* Sincere
* Reliable
* Cool