What happens in a Coaching session?
The coaching process is designed make the client more focused
and aware of their choices, and through this helps them to achieve
their goals more quickly. The process concentrates on where clients
are today, what they want to achieve and what they are willing
to do to achieve where they want to be tomorrow.
In each coaching session, the client chooses the focus of conversation,
while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions,
with the aim of clarifying the client’s positions and options
to move them into making action.
The coaching process depends on the person being coached taking
responsibility for taking action and making their own decisions,
not on the coach providing solutions.
It is the coach’s responsibility to help the client discover
and clarify what they want to achieve, encourage the client to
discover more about themselves, work with the client to achieve
client-centered solutions and to hold the client responsible and
accountable.
The coaching relationship is built on trust and respect. It is
non-judgmental, impartial and totally confidential. The coach and
client will often draw up a coaching agreement, and accredited
coaches are bound by a professional Code of Conduct.
