Coaching is fairly new and represents a melting pot of professions and bodies knowledge from psychology, organizational and leadership development, and change management to adult learning theory, neuro-science and emotional intelligence. This method of facilitating positive change for a person, group or team is a partnership with a coach in a thought-provoking and creative process that improves performance and quality of life.
Coaching works because of three unique features:
Synergy: Client and coach become a team, focusing on the client's goals and needs to accomplish more than the client would alone.
Structure: With a coach, a client takes more action, thinks bigger, and gets the job done, thanks to the accountability the coach provides.
Expertise: The coach knows how to help others expand their thinking, make better decisions, design the most inspiring goals, and encourage the client's motivation to change when they have not before.
Entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals, and people in transition use a coach to stimulate their thinking in new ways to solve, create, or plan something, personally or professionally.
Here is what the client and coach work on together: