Coaching
With some clients I also explore:
- Performance Conditioning
- Performance Coaching
- Performance Learning
In many people’s experience coaching involves the coach seeing all the differences between what is and what should be, they then work at getting the two to match. In other words, I will tell you what you should and shouldn't do! In this world change is viewed as moving from bad to good defined by someone other than the person making the change.
My approach to Performance Coaching applies a different philosophy.
“The art of creating an environment, through conversation and a way of being, that facilitates the process by which a person can move toward desired goals in a fulfilling manner.”
Timothy Gallwey in The Inner Game of Work
“A coach is a magician of change, who takes the cards you have, and helps you play your hand better or sometimes changes the rules of the game, or finds a better game”
Joseph O’Connor in Coaching with NLP
Toward Coaching Mastery
Within my current performance coaching approach there are several possibilities, for example:
1. I work in a purely coaching context working on performance without necessarily involving conditioning.
2. The coaching is integrated into the physical training sessions, not independent and separate. This means coaching is often brief but focused.
3. A mixture of the two, some specific coaching sessions and some conditioning sessions with coaching integrated.
Via honest, safe and confidential communication my coaching is characterised by the following:
- You explore how you can get from where you are now to where you want to be?
- Your coaching is built on action and doing,
- You spend little or no time in the past and focus on exploring the magic of what lies ahead.
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