Coaching Versus Therapy

aTherapy focuses on the past life of an individual,
often childhood issues.

A typical outcome of therapy is healing the individual, the creation of more useful and healthy coping skills, and dealing with current issues and challenges. Coaching focuses on what a person wants, beginning in the present and moving forward, developing the person to engage life with new behaviours and ultimately to achieve his or her own definition of success.
It can be useful for the coachee to access information or knowledge from the past in order to identify past patterns of behaviour that do not produce the preferred outcome.

A succinct way of identifying the line between coaching and therapy is that if coachee’s past is an issue, he or she may benefit from therapy, but if the past is a fact, he or she is coachable.

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Coaching Versus Consulting

A consultant is employed to deliver an
end result that meets a specific need or goal.

The consultant takes responsibility for the project and is a specialist with expertise in a given situation or industry, providing content and expert knowledge. A consultant focuses on what needs to be accomplished to improve the business. Coaching emphasizes the coachee’s responsibility for the results he or she receives from coaching, and focuses, as much on whom the coachee needs to be or become, as what practices need to be done differently.

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