What is coaching?
Coaching is a vehicle for helping people to achieve a higher level of well being and performance in life and work, when change is
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It is a partnership with clients in a thought provoking and active process that inspires and supports them to maximize their personal and
professional potential.
Coaches responsibilities
-Discover, clarify and align with what the client wants to achieve
-Encourage client self discovery
-Elicit collaborative and client generated solution and strategies
-Hold the client responsible and accountable
Outcomes of coaching include
-Increase self awareness and self knowledge
-Increase personal responsibility
-Attainment of new knowledge and professional goals
-Sustainable behavior change
-Increased life satisfaction and self efficacy
-Developed sense of purpose and meaning
-Becoming ones best self
Why we need health and wellness coaching?
-Chronic negative emotions impair the brain's ability to learn and change present moment, accelerate the onset of chronic disease and early death.
- Most people think they need assistance in reforming their self-care or mastering their health wellness.
Expert approach VS. Coach approach
Expert: Authority, feels responsible for client health, focuses on whats wrong, interrupts if off topic, wrestles with client
Coach: Partner, client is responsible for health, focuses on whats right, learns from clients stories, dance with clients
Not coach like approaches
-Ordering or directing
-Warning or threatening
-Giving direct advice or solutions
-Sympathizing
-Persuading with logic/arguing
-Disagreeing, judging or criticizing
Empathizing VS. Sympathizing
Don't sympathize
In a effective functioning coaching relationship:
- Clients are working at least as hard as the coach
- Let clients find the answers for themselves
- Clients are talking more than the coach is
- Ask permission to give expert advice
- Speak less and speak simply
-Think before you speak
- Balance questions with reflections
- If clients want to acquire new knowledge or skills, help them to locate the resources **you are not the resource**
Health and Wellness Coaching Research
Health and wellness coaching research at an early stage showed that coaching improves
health outcome for several chronic disease including diabetes, heart disease, obesity and on cancer survivors.
Characteristics of coaching
-A process that is fully or partially patient centered
- Includes patient determined goals
- Encourages accountability for behavioral goals
- Addresses a wide spectrum of health and wellness needs from childhood to end of life
How Coaching Works
- Discuss coaching relationship
- Provide background info of client
- Assist the client in setting a goal; clients should confirm that they are willing to change
- 3 month goals are reviewed and agreed in detail by client
- Review progress in each subsequent session
- Explore a key topic and resolve it
- Ideal session is 30-45 minute. Longer session may required
- After a few weeks of coaching sessions clients start to see early wins and subsequent rewards. This is what motivates them to change.
Sessions can be:
-Face to Face
- Telephone or video conferencing
What is coaching Psychology?
Self determination: The end game of coaching
Three dimensions of social environment can facilitate self determination (Deci and Ryan,1985)
1.Structure: developing clear, realistic expectation and achievable goal
2. Autonomy support: acknowledging clients opinion/choice regarding behavior
3. Involvement: understand quality of relationship and perception
What comes of Self determination
- Greater persistence
- More flexibility and creativity
- Better physical, mental health and well being
- More interest and enjoyment
- Higher quality of close personal relationships
Coaching Mechanism of Action
4 mechanisms
1.) Growth promoting relationship
2.) Elicit self motivation
3.) Build confidence ( self efficacy)
4.) Process of change
Growth promoting relationship
Mechanism 1
-Clients are too focused on what's wrong and lack full capacities
-Skilled coaches help their clients to figure out what they need given a safe nonjudgmental challenging and invigorating space.
Elicit self motivation
Mechanism 2
There are two general types of motivation:
-External: someone other than ourselves tells us what to do/ internalize the external idea; I should or I ought to do. This works only short term.
- Autonomous: Leads to sustainable motivation.
Build confidence
Mechanism 3
- A little success will improve motivation and confidence and get clients started on an upward spiral.
Process of change
Mechanism 4
- The simplest approach is a regular progress report, perhaps weekly, monthly or quarterly.
Learning to be a Coach
- Practice being a client before being a coach
- Create a professional development plan
- Select a training program carefully
Coaching VS. Therapy
- Therapists are licensed to treat diagnosable disorders which includes all currently recognized disorders in mental health.
- Coaches are not clinical diagnosticians and coaches do not focus directly in improving a clinically diagnosed conditions.
- It is important that coaches are vigilant in noticing issues that may require the support of a licensed mental health provider. [Show Less]