What is coaching / counselling / psychotherapy?

Simply put ...

Psychotherapy... The goal is personal healing and resolution of early (Often childhood) trauma which is interrupting our enjoyment of daily life, relationships and professional lives.

Counselling ... The goal is to resolve personal and relationship issues in daily living which may also be effecting our working lives and counselling is also supporting clients in their personal and professional growth.

Coaching...  The goal is professional development and resolution of issues effecting our professional lives, often aiming on clients who are in the leadership of organisations.

Therefore the contract between Uta or Dave and the client is dependent on the goal they are wanting to work on... that is a counselling / coaching or psychotherapy contract.

See Uta's book... On Mentoring in practice... you can buy it from Amazon... in German only! Sozialmanagement: Praxisanleitung Sozialmanagement. Anleiter/Innen-Qualifikation in sozialpädagogischen Berufen (Broschiert)

Definitions of coaching we have found:

Coaching and mentoring are processes that enable both individual and corporate clients to achieve their full potential.

Coaching and mentoring programmes generally prove to be popular amongst employees as coaching achieves a balance between fulfilling organisational goals and objectives whilst taking into account the personal development needs of individual employees. It is a two-way relationship with both the organisation and the employee gaining significant benefits.

Many coaching clients will seek coaching or mentoring for performance enhancement rather than the rectification of a performance issue. Coaching & mentoring have been shown to be highly successful intervention in these cases. When an organisation is paying premium rates for development services, performance is usually the key pay-back they are looking for. Even if an executive or manager receives support in balancing work and home life, it will be with the aim of increasing their effectiveness and productivity at work and not for more altruistic reasons.

Coaching is a dynamic development tool that can provide answers to your personal and professional life. Coaching can provide an environment to have your voice heard, without judgement. It is a partnership that encourages autonomy, planning, creativity and focus.

A key difference between coaching and the therapies is that coaching does not seek to resolve the deeper underlying issues that are the cause of serious problems like poor motivation, low self-esteem and poor job performance. Coaching and mentoring programmes are generally more concerned with the practical issues of setting goals and achieving results within specific time-scales.

The difference between coaching and mentoring

As can be seen above, there are many similarities between coaching and mentoring! Mentoring, particularly in its traditional sense, enables an individual to follow in the path of an older and wiser colleague who can pass on knowledge, experience and open doors to otherwise out-of-reach opportunities. Coaching on the other hand is not generally performed on the basis that the coach has direct experience of their client’s formal occupational role unless the coaching is specific and skills focused.

What is the task of Coaches?

• Facilitate the exploration of needs, motivations, desires, skills and thought processes to assist the individual in making real, lasting change.
• Use questioning techniques to facilitate client's own thought processes in order to identify solutions and actions rather than takes a wholly directive approach
• Support the client in setting appropriate goals and methods of assessing progress in relation to these goals
• Observe, listen and ask questions to understand the client's situation
• Creatively apply tools and techniques which may include one-to-one training, facilitating, counselling & networking.
• Encourage a commitment to action and the development of lasting personal growth & change.
• Maintain unconditional positive regard for the client, which means that the coach is at all times supportive and non-judgemental of the client, their views, lifestyle and aspirations.
• Ensure that clients develop personal competencies and do not develop unhealthy dependencies on the coaching or mentoring relationship.
• Evaluate the outcomes of the process, using objective measures wherever possible to ensure the relationship is successful and the client is achieving their personal goals.
• Encourage clients to continually improve competencies and to develop new developmental alliances where necessary to achieve their goals.
• Work within their area of personal competence.
• Possess qualifications and experience in the areas that skills-transfer coaching is offered.
• Assist the client to maintain the motivation and commitment needed to achieve their goals.
• Manage the relationship to ensure the client receives the appropriate level of service and that programmes are neither too short, nor too long.

Coaching is the process of identifying an individual’s desires, and talents and supporting them as they find in themselves the confidence and skills to achieve their goals and aims.

• Identifying what your goals are.

• Turning these goals into specific objectives

• Creating a self-image that could achieve these objectives

• Forming a plan to realise this self-image

• Building a support framework

• Executing the plan

• Monitoring and celebrating success

Coaching is "a process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve. To be a successful a Coach requires a knowledge and understanding of process as well as the variety of styles, skills and techniques that are appropriate to the context in which the coaching takes place" Eric Parsloe

Uta Höhl-Spenceley from the Yorkshire Training Centre offers supervision for coaches to reflect with them on their professional practice.

www.ta-coaching.co.uk  email: coaching@ta-coaching.co.uk

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