www.thecoachingdynamic.com
WHAT IS COACHING?
Coaching and its Cousins (Consultant, Counsellor, Therapist, Mentor)
Coaching and its Cousins (Consultant, Counsellor, Therapist, Mentor)
What we mean by Coaching at The Coaching Dynamic is: using trained and qualified coaches to provide a creative space where you are the full focus of attention, where your potential, values, motivations, goals and life purposes are fully explored; and where you are encouraged to adopt empowering expectations for your life and work. Through deep listening and intuitive questioning, the coaching process inspires you to greater levels of self awareness; you’re given the space to access your own intuitive wisdom, to gain your own insights and you are supported towards achieving the goals that you’ve defined for your life.
In The Coaching Dynamic, we undertake Corporate and Executive Coaching working with those in managerial and leadership positions in workplace contexts, helping them around issues of personal, team and organisational performance and leadership by addressing both goals and challenges, and by helping them to work out what they need to do and how they need to be, in order to progress in the way they want.
For those who have an issue to discuss which they are not asking their workplace to fund for them, we also provide Personal Performance Coaching. Individuals who come for coaching are generally aware that something within their life or circumstances is holding them back from living the kind of life they want, or from performing the way they want to perform at work, and we provide a context in which insight and direction can be found for the way forward.
Effectively, a trained and qualified coach helps people to regain motivation, set goals, see life as it is, define the life they want, determine the changes necessary to achieve it, set an action plan to do so, and be supported until the goal is reached.
The coaching relationship works both for short bursts of time eg. two or three months at a time with a weekly or fortnightly session on one single topic, and as an ongoing fortnightly or monthly sounding board/accountability support where new issues are introduced as they arise.
Are you consultants?
No. The traditional understanding of a consultant is of a specialist, hired to offer advice and find solutions in work based situations, working with the client in a specific area and on specific issues. At The Coaching Dynamic, we explore your the nature of an undetermined or known problem in conversation with one or more relevant parties, and once the problem has been thoroughly identified, we lead the decision maker(s) towards setting goals to resolve it. As coaches, we find the right questions that lead you, the client to the right solution in your field. Though we don’t offer advice, we use coaching principles and frameworks which help you to see your situation differently. “The 5 Senses of Self framework” may also be referred to if appropriate.
Do you offer counselling, therapy or mentoring?
No.
A Counsellor is a specialist who works with a client struggling to cope with specific issues which are rooted in the past and which are holding them back. Counsellors generally work in specific subject areas where a specialised knowledge is required - for example bereavement counselling, marital counselling, addiction counselling etc. If a counselling need becomes evident during coaching sessions, we will ask if you wish to be referred to a counsellor.
A Therapist is more likely to work over a longer period of time and more intensively with the client at a deeper level of the personality. While coaching is more interested in the present and the future, both counselling and therapy have a stronger interest in how past experiences influence the clients present. Counselling and therapy are words which are often used interchangeably.
Lastly, we don’t provide Mentoring. A mentor is usually an expert in their particular field, and works with the mentee to offer knowledge and wisdom relevant to the mentee’s requirements. In the employment context, a mentor works with a less experienced colleague in the same organisation or field. The Mentor shares knowledge and wisdom specific to the role, including knowledge of skills, specific business culture and organisational structure. So a lawyer would mentor a lawyer, an engineer an engineer and so on. The mentor focuses on the role and knowledge of the mentee. A coach however, focuses more on the person being coached, and the process of personal and professional development.
We hope from these descriptions above, that you can ascertain whether coaching is a form of support which will benefit you.
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