What is coaching?

Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to unleash their personal and professional potential.

The key here is to reach potential, not to solve problems.  Coaching is generative, not remedial.  Problems in performance, inadequacies in knowledge and other deficiencies are best addressed through other means.  Coaching is the best approach to make stars shine brighter.

It is important to clarify where coaching fits into other interventions.  We place it alongside Mentoring and Counselling on a continuum that also includes Training, Consulting and Therapy.  With our focus on project management coaching, it is important to note that we do not directly include any of the other five interventions, although it is possible that we do encroach somewhat into its neighbours on the continuum, especially on the Mentoring side.

It is also possible that the coaching programme may identify requirements in the other areas, but it will not directly seek to provide solutions in those areas.

The coaching partnership is key.  We use the word partnership to indicate that coaching is a thinking partnership of equals, in which the client has all the resources he or she needs and the coach has the skill in drawing them out. 

Call Cohesion today to arrange a free no-obligations initial coaching session.  Experience the benefits of real transformation that you can use immediately - and then decide to choose the coaching programme that suits you best.  Call us on 0861 99 99 87 (if you are calling from South Africa) or +27 11 285 0148.