Acording to the International Coach Federation (ICF) Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. 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.
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Coaching vs 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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Coaching vs Therapy
Therapy 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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