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This Blog is to give Professional Coaches in the Philippines a place to share their thoughts.

The International Coach Federation (ICF) released in July 2008 the results of its first ever Global Coaching Client Study conducted in 2008. The study reveals that coaching generates a solid return of investments for clients, besides positively impacting individual and business goals. The coaching client survey was fully participated by individuals from different continents namely, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The results proves the true power of coaching. The astounding survey shows:

 1. Eighty-six percent (86%) of companies that have used coaching shows a jaw-dropping 100 percent (100%) return on investment.

2. Eighty percent (80%) of coaching clients said they have experienced a positive change in self-esteem as a result of partnering with a professional coach.

3. A staggering 82.7% of individuals who have experienced professional coaching report being satisfied with their coaching experience.

4. A whopping 96.2% of individuals said they would want to repeat the coaching experience.

Ever have that feeling that there that you know that there is just something just not right. Yet you cannot put your finger on it? Or when you do know, you don’t know what to do next? What steps to take, or even how to begin?  That is what coaching is all about. We work together in identifying those challenges, in setting a goal, and reaching that goal. Partnering in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires to maximize your personal and professional potential.

Coaching has a unique paradigm, but it’s not new in its sources, theory, and strategies. Much of the foundation for coaching goes back many decades and even centuries. The draw of pursuing life improvement, personal development, and the exploration of meaning began with early Greek society. This is reflected in Socrates’ famous quote, “The unexam­ined life is not worth living.” Since then we have developed many ways of examining our lives, some useful and some not; some are grounded in theory and are evidence-based, while others are made up and useless. What persists, however, is that people who are not in pursuit of basic human needs such as food and shelter do begin to pay attention to higher needs such as self-actualization, fulfillment, and spiritual connec­tion. In Greece, as now, people have always had an intense desire to explore and find personal meaning.

Coaching today is seen as a new phenomenon, yet its foundations can be found in modern psychology and philosophy. Coaching is a new field that borrows from and builds on theories and research from related fields that have come before it. As such, coaching is a multidisciplinary, multitheory synthesis and application of applied behavioral change.

Professional Distinctions

Therapy	Mentoring	Consulting	Coaching
Deals mostly with a person’s past and trauma, and seeks healing	Deals mostly with succession training and seeks to help someone do what you do	Deals mostly with problems and seeks to provide information (expertise, strategy, structures, methodologies) to solve them	Deals mostly with a person’s present and seeks to guide them into a more desirable future
Doctor-Patient relationship (therapist has the answers)	Older/Wiser~Younger/Less experienced relationship (Mentor has the answers)	Expert~person with problem relationship (Consultant has the answers)	Co-creative, equal partnership (Coach helps clients discover their own answers)
Assumes many emotions are a symptom of something wrong	Limited to emotional response of the mentoring parameters (succession, etc.)	Does not normally address or deal with emotions (informational only)	Assumes emotions are natural and normalizes them.
The therapist diagnoses, then provides professional expertise and guidelines to give clients a path to healing	The mentor allows you to observe his/her behavior and expertise, will answer questions, and provide guidance and wisdom for the purpose of the mentoring.	The consultant stands back, evaluated a situation, then tells you the problem and how to fix it.	The coach stands with you, and helps you identify the challenges, then works with you to turn those challenges into victories and holds you accountable to reach your desired goals.

 

From Page 40 of “Becoming a Life Coach” by Patrick Williams, Dianne S. Menendez