Before we get into an overview of the course,
let's talk just a little bit about what coaching is.
Coaching falls within a family of helping relationships that includes
manager-subordinate, doctor or therapist and patient, even parent-child.
Now coaching is similar in some ways to these other forms of helping
relationships.
But specifically we define coaching as helping a person make progress in their
intentional change.
Or in other words, helping them articulate and move closer to the attainment
of their ideal self, their personal vision of their ideal future.
Now this is an approach we call coaching with compassion.
Now in coaching with compassion,
one of the objectives of the coach is to establish what we
call a resonate relationship with the person being coached.
One centered around positive emotion, mindfulness, hope, and compassion.
Getting the person excited about some ideal future that they envision and
helping them maintain and persist
in moving forward with that excitement as they move toward that change.
This approach we contrast with another often used approach to coaching
that we describe as coaching for compliance.
Now, in coaching for compliance, it's a very different feeling.
In coaching for compliance, the coach is trying to help the person being coached
achieve some externally defined standard or objective.
Maybe having them do what you would like them to do better, or more of, or less of.
Very, very different than the coaching with compassion approach, where the intent
is to help that person achieve what it is they want to achieve in their life, right?
We know from our research that to make change stick,
it has to be intentional, right?
We also know that it has to start from that standpoint of articulating that
ideal self and personal vision.