Since personal information will be treated as being confidential, the coach will make sure the individuals or group members know about vocational approaches by using personal life examples. Individuals or groups being coached will understand better about vocational choices when personal examples are used (Van Iddekinge & Campbell, 2011, p
It is important to how confidentiality will be handled before starting the coaching session. The coach will be free to use any information in the coaching session since both parties guarantee confidentiality (Cotter & Fouad 2011, p
Therefore, this video shows that coaching is useful in enabling realize their personal and professional dreams. This video agrees that assisting people to reach their maximum potential via this approach generates great satisfaction (Skibbins, 2007)
In complex settings such as vulnerability and fast moving environments, trust and self-awareness between leaders and followers are paramount. Coaching provides the opportunity for people to address personal issues in a non-threatening manner (Williams & Menendez, 2007)
A target market can be defined by channels as well. A well-defined target market will incorporate all of these different types of variables into one coherent vision for the target customer (Porta, 2010)
Accountability and Life Coaching Setting Up Accountability Factors Setting up accountability factors is primarily a matter of soliciting information directly from the client for the purpose of establishing the strategic goals of therapy (Whitworth, L
A goal differs from hopes, dreams, visions and wishes. In " What Is a 'Goal'?," Gail Dantzker (2004) defines a goal as: statement describing a broad or abstract intent, state or condition; general statement of an intended outcome; An intention stated in abstract terms (Dantzker, 2004, p
Things you know will make a difference in your life and the results you want. (McColl, 2002, p
The Point of No Return In Co-Active coaching: New Skills for coaching people toward success in work and life, Laura Whitworth, Karen Kimsey-House, Henry Kimsey-House, and Phillip Sandahl (2007) point out that during the life coaching process, a client may reportedly be too busy to keep his/her office neat/organized/clean. The ensuing chaos, however seriously distracts him/her, and in fact has reached "the point of no return," where - "Something must be done" (Whitworth et al
Essentially, "coaching is about helping someone to achieve their own personal goals that they themselves set" (Dunbar, 2010, p 7). Traditional life coaching itself was originally a hybrid genre that was born out of several "intellectual traditions of sports psychology, organizational scholarship, business management, motivational theories, decision science, and other fields to help motivate and support their clients" (Biswas-Diener, 2009, p 545)
Literature Review Life coaching is all about helping the individual reach some goal or objective, not matter what genre that goal may fall under. Essentially, "coaching is about helping someone to achieve their own personal goals that they themselves set" (Dunbar, 2010, p 7)
Hybrid life coaching techniques provide a connection to other fields, like nutrition. Most often, hybrid strategies focus on finding and exploiting a common synergy between the different genres, "which means combining multiple strategies together that become force multipliers of exponential results" (Pineault, 2012)
Bentley (2008) frames the concept and practice of active listening in terms of attending to the other. Active listening is an integral part of the process called attending: that is to attend to the client without paying any attention to the inner static or clutter of the untrained mind (Bentley 2008)
Moreover, Carter-Scott & Stewart (2007) clarify the difference between hearing and listening in terms of attentiveness. "Hearing is passive," whereas "listening can be either passive or active," (Carter-Scott & Stewart 2007)
As Dunbar (2009) points out, many life coaches take for granted that they are already good at listening and forget the pitfalls of poor or passive listening. Listening skills fluctuate and can never take them for granted, especially by a professional life coach (Dunbar 2009)
Both coaches and counselors depend on strong communication skills. Empirical evidence shows that listening actively yields results "Compared to peer coachees and controls, coachees of professional coaches were more engaged in the coaching process, had greater goal commitment and progression, and greater well-being in terms of environmental mastery," (Spence & Grant 2007)
Some of those tools are proprietary such as the Listening Guide, which is developed specifically for life coaches. The Listening Guide "is a qualitative, relational, voice-centered methodology, which may be used to seriously reflect on the ways in which we listen to our clients, learn from them, and form relationships with them," (Woodcock 2010)
Similarly, Young & Cates (2010) found that mentoring and life coaching share in common an emphasis on strong listening. Both empathic and directive listening, which involve tuning into the client and focusing on client needs, can enhance the professional life coach-client relationship (Young & Cates 2010)
Relaxation Engine Most of mainstream medical Western medicine overlooks the mind and body connection and treats these two separate systems independently. However, most ancient healing practices, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic medicine, emphasize the links between the mind and the body (Ehrlich, 2011)
There are different cognitive behavior treatments that can help offset the pressures that this demographic faces. For example, mindfulness-based cognitive intervention with adults has been found to be highly effective and as such it has been the subject of much research in the past few decades (Lau & Hue, 2011)