About coaching
Coaching is the process of helping people (whether individually or in teams or as an organization) to be the best they can be. As per John Whitmore Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them."
As a process, coaching aims to better utilise the client's (the one being coached, also called the coachee) strengths and resources, to come up with innovative solutions and SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound) action steps which help the client to achieve his/ her objectives across different paradigms. It involves use of tools which are basically sets of questions along with certain exercises. These enable a client to think through his situations better and come up with action steps which are practical.
A coach is generally not a subject matter expert. He is a facilitator of learning. A good coach believes that his role is to help his clients find answer to their own problems- something which they have within themselves- but may need help to find.
