what is not coaching?

Coaching is unlike usually known ways such as training, therapy, consulting, mentoring counseling or directing. Training involves imparting new skills. Therapy is treating someone who is in someway incapable to come out from some sort of suffering or disease. Consulting is offering an expertise based on accumulated knowledge bank. Mentoring is transferring one’s excellence to someone who cherishes. Counseling is giving some kind of solace to help someone go through pain. Directing is instructing people what they need to do.

How coaching is different?

Professional coaching goes beyond above-mentioned conventional approaches. Coach approach requires a structure to be aware of, framework to be followed, proven model to be worked with and freedom. Brilliant coach is the one who has compassion, creativity and listens, clarifies the problem, asks the right questions, raises awareness and inspires a client to discover a solution, being aligned and congruent to his or her goals.

What Does it take to
be a professional coach?

When you have to coach others, it requires you to be aware of several aspects and parameters to present your self as a coach.  We respect your innate ability to help anyone many times and you must have earned appreciation and applauds for doing a nice job with someone.
Here are some of the dimensions you must begin considering to be known as a Professional Coach:
• What you must work on with other person?
• What will the other person expect?
• What skills and competency you would need?
• How and when to use your coaching abilities?
• When to start and where to end coaching assignment?
• How to begin and what to deliver in a coaching session?
• How to know client is getting benefit?
• How to know you are doing job worth getting paid for that?
• More importantly, how to get paid?
If this is making you think and consider developing yourself as a Professionally Certified Coach, There are 11 competencies that ICF, International Coach Federation expects to be in a coach.