The 3 fundamental keys to understanding coaching

Coaching has burst onto the scene in recent years and, what seemed like a passing fad and only suitable for executives or people who had already spent years studying and walking in the level of personal development, has proven to be a profession that is going to stay because of its usefulness in different areas of society.

This has meant that not so many people shrug their shoulders when they hear about coaching, or even know that it is a process that anyone can turn to at any time. certain circumstances, but there are still some steps to be taken to completely end the skepticism that exists around this profession and what can be achieved with it. achieve.

Ignorance is what feeds skepticism and information is the best weapon to combat it. Therefore, in this article we are going to detail and explain the 3 fundamental keys to understand coaching in its entirety: what it is, what it is for and how it works.

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What is coaching?

Coaching is a personalized and confidential process in which the coach helps his client (the coachee) to

make the right changes to find and/or unlock your potential in order to maximize your performance and performance at all levels of your life.

Coaching, therefore, does not stop being a process of personal discovery of the coachee where he himself, although with the guidance of the coach, he ends up realizing that he has everything he needs to achieve his goals and overcome the obstacles that prevent him from moving forward and reach them.

Therefore, coaching is not mentoring, nor psychology, much less motivation without more. In a coaching process, advice is not given because the coach is an expert in a certain subject, nor are mental health problems treated, nor are encouraging phrases said.

Coaching is an independent profession from these others and, although they drink from common sources, and sometimes even complement each other, each one has its field of action and her own "why".

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What is the purpose of coaching?

As we have advanced above in the definition of coaching, this is a method to achieve personal fulfillment understood as the Well-being that is achieved when we achieve the balance between what our ego or ambition asks of us and what our vision or soul asks us. request.

It is the method that works best to achieve goals within all the factors that condition people's lives: health, love, friendship, money, family, work... That is, the coaching serves to build bridges and chart paths between current and desired current states within those spheres.

Some examples of problems and needs for which coaching can be used are:

• Health: My current status is that of a heavy smoker with respiratory problems who wants to reach a state in which I don't smoke, but I don't crave it either, thus improving my problems respiratory.
• Family: my current state is that of a mother who yells at her children all the time for anything she wants to achieve a state in which you know how to understand them better and be able to solve problems with them calmly and from reason.
• Job: My current status is that of a charismatic leader, but no connection to my team that you want to be able to achieve real leadership where my team feels one with me and with the principles of the business.

Seeing these examples that are only a small part of all that there is, it is observed that That what coaching is for is as numerous as the impediments that exist in any sphere of life that prevent us from shining. and live in harmony with ourselves.

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How coaching works (or how to get the whys and wherefores)

Probably of the elements that are necessary to understand to understand coaching in its entirety, what is least known is how it works, how coaching is actually exercised.

In coaching we talk about coaching processes: it is the complete procedure, with its beginning and its end, through from which the coach will guide the coachee in achieving the objective for which he has resorted to his services.

The length of the process depends on each objective and the attitude of the coachee himself and is divided, in turn, into sessions that can be, for example, one hour long, in each of which the coach will guide the coachee towards a deep self-knowledge, which will allow you not only to carry out an analysis of your current and desired reality, of your limitations, fears and beliefs, but he will make him create the action plan so that the achievement of the objective is produce.

The coach has a methodology and different tools acquired during his training to be able to carry out this task of guiding the coachee, the most powerful being conversation and from challenging question formulation, since with this the coachee himself, through the answers that he gives, not only traces his own path in his terms, but also becomes aware of who he is and where he wants to be.

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Understanding coaching from within

We can make countless articles to try to explain what coaching is or clarify all the false myths that surround it and that generate so much confusion, but as happens with almost everything in life, the best way to know something well is to do it from inside.

On D'Arte Human & Business School, in our mission of wanting to make coaching known and understood in its entirety to everyone, we offer the most extensive coaching training and varied, both for beginners who want to approach this profession for the first time to understand what it consists of, what it does and how it is done, to more advanced training so that those who already know that coaching is the profession they want to practice can train to be coaches with all the guarantee.