Luis Carchak: the 3 ways of coaching

Luis Carchak, coaching expert, details three ways of doing coaching and what results can be expected from each of these interventions. “Three possibilities of action that generate changes and very different results and that, in all cases, are also transformative for me”.

Carchak accumulates more than 6,000 hours of coaching behind him; has the highest coaching certification, is a Master Certified Coach by the prestigious International Coach Federation (ICF) and develops its activity in European School of Coaching (EEC), where he teaches and directs the Team Coaching Program in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Chile.

Summarizing the results that can be expected from coaching is, for the expert, an “interesting exercise because there are surely as many opinions as there are coaches. In my case", answers Luis Carchak, "I would differentiate between the result of individual executive coaching, that of teams and what we want to achieve when we accompany the company to achieve a change in its culture organizational. There are three different levels.

Luis Carchak: individual coaching

Individual coaching, that which takes place behind closed doors between a client and a coach and whose work material is the story that the client is making, has the result of "expanding awareness about who we are in relation to others, value what we want for ourselves, for our community, team or company”, according to Luis Carchak.

"There are not many professions that aim to generate a deep understanding of who we are," says the coach. "In this sense, I feel privileged, since at the same time that my client knows himself and recognizes the impact that his behavior has on the environment, I am enriched by him as a professional and as a person".

“The good result of an individual coaching is that my client can make decisions aligned with achieving his commitments from an observation different from the world and from its own capabilities ”, concludes Luis Carchak, about the complex phenomenon that in the manuals and training programs of coaching It is called a change of observer..

Luis Carchak and team coaching

If individual coaching is a story, team coaching is a theater scene. team coaching It takes place in the middle of the team meeting and its manager, and she is attended, "like a fly on the wall" by a coach who directly observes the relationship between people.

“When we talk about teams, for me the result comes from understanding that one plus one is not two, but three”, explains Luis Carchak. “A team is a system that put to work assertively makes the result much greater than the sum of the parts, because one plus one is not a sum but a new system that surpasses the previous one”.

To achieve this multiplication, says the expert, "it is essential that the team is built in an environment of trust, that it abandons the old paradigm of play to be right and in which clear rules of the game are established to reach an agreement and that serve to enter the new paradigm of companies fast”.

The cultural change of an organization

"Talking about cultural change in an organization is big words," Luis Carchak begins by saying, about this coaching intervention that "involves changing the mindset of a whole group of people in a system of systems" and that therefore goes through the change in the person, in the team and in the system in an almost simultaneous.

“Beating the culture of more of the same is no easy task, since cultural inertia is strong and resists”, maintains Luis Carchak, for whom difficulties are overcome understanding how changes in culture are produced and "the why of the change, with the clear benefit for the organization".

As recommendations to follow, it is important that the company "see the future as something designable, plan from the future to the present and, with an ambitious target of success, drop everything that is not in line with the vision and aim for the center to win”, explains the coach.

The people within the organization's culture change

“In an organization, a new culture surpasses the old one, not denying it but encompassing it, integrating it into a process of time that must be understood and respected”, explains the expert.

If the first step is to integrate the benefit to the organization, the second is to assume that “this can or not coincide at first sight with the personal benefit of each one of the protagonists”, qualifies the coach.

For this reason, in the process of culture change "it is key to identify and give visibility to the people involved, that build trust and can exert a positive influence on others to accelerate the process of change”, assures Luis Carchak, who encourages putting fears, resistance and “the calming explanations that we sell and buy” on the table.

After years accompanying companies to change their culture, Luis Carchak encourages "training leaders in a culture open to innovation that generates rules that set the pace for new changes to, as a team, learn quickly from the mistakes".