FC101: What is coaching 2 (Introduction to Coaching) - Reflection on the session

Moderator-Ronnie Noize
Jan. 23, I took a teleclass course, What is Coaching? (Introduction to Coaching)

The International Coaching Federation, defines coaching in the following way:
"Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce
fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches help people improve
their performances and enhance the quality of their lives.
Coaches are trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to individual
client needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; they believe the
client is naturally creative and resourceful. The coach's job is to provide support to
enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has.”
(ICF website, 2006)

I really like Miss Ronnie said: Coaching is all about the process and the client.

A coach offers many things to the client during the coaching process such as:
1. Support to discover the answers within him or her self
2. Clarification of values
3. Co-creation of a plan for how to achieve what the client really wants
4. A sounding board for new ideas
5. Support in making life changing decisions
6. Challenge to expand their views beyond their perceived limitations
7. Direction
8. Acknowledgement
9. Encouragement
10. Resource of information

Ronnie give us some very good questions during the course:
1. What’s the difference between Coaching and Therapy?
2. What is the difference between an Executive, Corporate or Business Coach?

I found my own answer through the course reading material and during the course processing. I enjoyed this course very much.