What is Coaching?

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.

People often mix up coaching, consulting, mentoring, and therapy. They overlap, but each does a different job:

• Consulting: A consultant brings the answers. A coach helps you find yours.

• Mentoring: A mentor shares their own path. A coach focuses on yours.

• Therapy: Therapy often works through the past and emotional health. Coaching focuses on your goals and what you’ll do next.

Author and executive coach, Jenny Rogers, has a great way of explaining coaching:

Coaching is the art of facilitating another person’s learning, development, well-being and performance. Coaching raises self-awareness and identifies choices. Through coaching, people are able to find their own solutions, develop their own skills, and change their attitudes and behaviors. The whole aim of coaching is to close the gap between people’s potential and their current state.

As your coach, I help you find your own answers and focus on what to do next. I’ll also tell you what I’m seeing along the way.