There are many kinds of coaches and each of these may follow their chosen philosophy. They may then aim to pass on strategies and skills that help people to achieve success.
Different coaches may also work best in different situations. They may work best as a team, individual or specialist coach. Let’s explore these themes.
The Team Coach
Such coaches have the personality and skills required to help certain kinds of teams to achieve their goals. They may sometimes demonstrate the following qualities.
They know how certain kinds of teams build on their strengths and follow certain strategies to achieve success;
They know how to pass on this knowledge in a way that people can use to help their team to achieve success
They know how to enable people in a team to combines their strengths to do superb work and achieve success.
Some coaches may work best with certain kinds of teams who are at a particular stage of their development. They may also work best for a certain time frame. They may then move on to work with other teams.
The Individual Coach
Such coaches may have the knowledge and skills required to help certain kinds of individuals to achieve their goals. They may sometimes demonstrate the following qualities.
They know how to help certain kinds of people to build on their strengths and follow certain strategies to achieve success;
They know how to pass on this knowledge in a way that these people can use to achieve success;
They know how to enable such people to do superb work and find solutions to challenges on the way towards achieving success.
Some coaches may work best with certain kinds of individuals who are at a particular stage of their development. They may also work best for a certain time frame with these people.
The Specialist Coach
Such coaches may have expertise in specific area. This could be in wellbeing, psychology, crisis management, communication skills, sales, technical development, peak performance or another activity.
Such coaches often work best with people who want to develop or tackle particular challenges in this activity. They may sometimes demonstrate the following qualities.
They know how to help people who want to focus on a special activity and achieve success;
They know how to pass on this knowledge in a way that these people can use to achieve success;
They know how to enable such people to do superb work and find solutions to challenges on the way towards achieving success.
Such coaches work best when they can use their specialist knowledge to help people who want to develop in a particular activity that matches their area of expertise. They can then apply their knowledge to help people to achieve success.
Let’s return to your own life and work. Imagine that you want to build on your strengths and follow one or more these coaching approaches. What may be the kind of coaching you would like to do?
Would you like to focus on team coaching, individual coaching or specialist coaching? Or would you like to combine several of these approaches? How could you do this in your own way?
If you wish, try tackling the exercise on this theme. This invites you to complete the following sentences.
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