What is Coaching?

• ‘A coach is someone who shows you how to do or master something, whether it be reaching an important goal or making a difficult change. A coach stays with you and helps you select the goal, engage with it, progress through it, achieve it, and integrate the accomplishment into your life'
• 'With a coaching background, you can show people how, not just tell them’
• Thomas Leonard describes coaching in an energetic way ‘coaching has officially been available with both a personal focus and a business orientation. You can now use a coach to get your personal life together, set and reach goals, start and expand a business, get faster ahead in business, improve your job performance, communicate better with everyone’
• ‘Coaching is a process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve. To be a successful coach requires a knowledge and understanding of the process as well as the variety of styles, skills and techniques that are appropriate to the context in which the coaching takes place’
• ‘Coaching is about performing at your best through the individual and private assistance of someone who will challenge, stimulate and guide you to keep growing.’