A couple of weeks ago I heard someone from HR stating that his company top management thought of coaching as remedial, and as something to “recover” weak performers… When hearing this all my “coaching bells” rang!
What I thought was buried in the past, the word coaching carrying a remedial rather than a developmental connotation, it is not, at least not completely. Fortunately this connotation has been continuously fading…
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Businesses ask for team coaching usually for 3 reasons. It may be because they have a crisis or a conflict within a team. Or because they have a motivation or team productivity problem. Or the team has a bigger challenge, a new big strategic project, and realizes that with the current way of thinking and acting it will not be able to meet the challenge.
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Are there ways of thinking that can naturally increase your performance?
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Solving everyday problems with a coaching style is a goal for many Managers and this goal becomes much easier to achieve with the “Manager as a Coach” training.
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Let’s now look at a small part of coaching to exemplify what each coach’s responsibility consists of.
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Conducting a coaching process may seem very simple. However, by supervising different coaching processes, it can be concluded that most coaches do not follow all the coaching principles – instead they sometimes end up doing mentoring, therapy, consulting or training.
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In order to tell you about the origin of coaching, I suggest starting with a trip to Greece and going back in time about 2400 years. We can then rise to the shoulders of the giants Socrates, Plato and Aristotle!
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