Saya cuba untuk berkongsi dengan anda apa yang dimaksudkan coaching. Ada yang berpendapat sesi coaching ialah sesi interview, sesi kaunseling, terapi, latihan, borak-borak dan sebagainya. Saya akan cuba nyatakan di sini beberapa isi penting untuk menjelaskan definisi dan kepentingan coaching (dalam bahasa Inggeris dan saya quote dari sumber rujukan)

Coach

Coaching is a personal change management process. The partnership and process create new outcomes for the individual, work team or organization.

What a coach does?
1. Communicate in a nonjudmental manner
2. Asks empowering, probing and reflective questions
3. Leads a change process
4. Deeply listens
5. Takes a neutral stance
6. Follows the coachees’ agendas
7. Inspire the coachess
8. Maintains the bigger picture
9. Probes for possible solutions
10.Creates awareness
11.Creates a safe, trusting environment
12.Challenges thinking
13. Inspires coachees to reach new levels of accomplishment
14. Offers feedback
15. Keeps coachees in action
16. Maintain an eye toward the future
17. Helps coachees visualize new possibilities
18. Helps coachees create conditions for success
19. Gets the heart of an issue
20. Summarizes and paraphrases what coachees say
21. Accepts where coachees are in their lives
22. Respects coachees’ present mindstes
23. Allow silence and space for reflection

Mentor

Mentors guide from their own experience. Mentoring is often confused with coaching. Mentoring matches a novice with a person experience in the same role. Mentors are not typically trained to work with the inner self, as coaches are.

Consultant

Consultants are hired to share their specialized expertise in a certain area or field. While consulting approaches vary widely, consultants usually work with systems to diagnose problems and make recommendations. They help organizations solve problems, and work with them for a specific period of time about a specific issue.

Therapists

Coaching can be distinguished from therapy in a number of ways. Coaching is focused on the future and attainment of meaningful goals. Therapy deals with healing personal pain, dysfunction and conflict. The focus is often on resolving difficulties from the past that hamper an individual’s emotional functioning in the present, improving overall psychological functioning, and dealing with present life and work circumstances in more emotionally healthy ways. Therapy outcomes often include improved feeling states. While positive emotions may be natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus of coaching is on creating actioanable strategies for achieving specific goals in one’s work or personal life. The emphasis in a coaching relationship is on action, accountability and follow through.

Trainer

Training is based on the acquisition of certain learning objectives as set out bu the instructor. Though objectives are clarified in the coaching process, they are set by the individual or team being coached, with guidance provided by the coach.

Kepentingan Coaching

Modern interpretation of coaching: a person being moved to a higher level of competence, confidence, performance or insight.

Jadi dengan coaching, ia bertujuan untuk meningkatkan keyakinan dan tahap kejayaan seseorang kerana setiap insan memerlukan contoh dalam kehidupan samada secara direct (coaching) atau tidak direct (membaca, mengkaji dan buat sendiri). Apabila sesuatu kejayaan itu tidak dapat dicapai kerana tidak yakin atau tidak tahu caranya, coaching adalah jawapan untuk menuju target tersebut.