What is the role of a personal coach?
The coach acts as a catalyst, who helps a client create space to discover potential, identify positive action, and gain a new awareness and outlook pertaining to one's situation. A coach does this through objective assessments and observations that foster client’s enhanced self-awareness and awareness of others and through active listening that is fully present and absorbed in the client's agenda. The coach also maintains professional boundaries in the coaching relationship, including confidentiality, and adheres to the coaching profession’s code of ethics.
The coach is committed to encouraging, giving support, inspiring, challenging, modeling trust and integrity, facilitating growth and change, and partnering for success. The coach is focused on the development, growth and success of their client. Coaching is supportive, respectful, encouraging, curious, positive. Coaching is about positive movement.
Differences Between Coach and Counselor
Counseling, or therapy, often looks to the past in order to discover, heal and understand. Coaching is oriented toward the future, where progress and action lead to purposful living. In coaching, the starting point is the client's agenda, goals, and desire for personal and professional success. Coaching focuses on the journey of the client. Coaching is not about the past or even the consequences of the past as a determiner for the future. Rather, it is about getting you from where you are now to a future that you want.
Differences Between Coach and Consultant
The consultant is an expert who is looked to for advice and answers. The consultant holds the agenda, imparts knowledge and offers suggestions to improve effectiveness and increase success. The coach sees the client as creative, capable, intelligent, and having answers within themselves or the resources to find them. Coaches act on the premise that the definitive expert regarding your life and work is you.
Differences Between Coach and Mentor.
A mentor is valued and revered for their years of experience and their willing impartation of wisdom, knowledge, and experiences to the client. The mentor provides a role model, in which the client can observe attributes, qualities or abilities in the mentor that he or she wishes to learn or emulate. Coaching is partnership of two people, who do not rely on each other's resources, knowledge, or experiences. Rather, they focus on the unique and intrinsic qualities already within the client that may not be identified or valued. The coach helps the client affirm and embrace their own true self.
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