General explanations about the coaching concept

From the individual coaching up to group coaching 

Speaking about coaching means a coach is accompanied by a coachee both on his professional as well as private way. These two persons have an interactive relation to each other, meaning no one is placed over the other, but the coach and the coachee cooperate on the same level. The professional company is always of top priority of a coaching, but cannot ignore the private life since they mutually necessitate themselves . In a coaching, no solutions are presented to the coachee, but they are developed together with him. Therefore, a coaching is not meant to be a specialist counseling or therapy, but the development of approaches for solutions.

The integration of personality of the coachee absolutely requires a coach´s discretion and secrecy. This is the only way a coachee can rely on his coach and not consider him as a danger carrier of information. Of course, a coaching assumes the voluntariness and willingness of the coachee. The utmost objective of the coaching always is to reach a certain degree of self-reflection and perception. This is how responsibility and growing realization can increase and new solution options can be recognized and realized.

At the beginning of his activity the coach should explain his concept to the coachee. This is how a good collaboration and a good relationship of the coachee can most easily be guaranteed. The better the concept is developed, the better can the period during which the coaching is supposed to occur be determined. That is even more important as a coaching always pursues the principle of independence. Thereby, it now depends on the person the coaching is addressed to. There are many different possibilities, from the individual coaching up to group coaching. In order to achieve the independence of the coachee in the best possible way, an ideological common interest between the coach and the coachee is elaborated. This contains both psychological aspects such as expectations, fear, a „letting oneself in for something” and borders and components such as time factor, used methods and possible objectives.

Since the task fields of a coach are very manifold and in addition often overlap, a well-founded knowledge in the field of psychology and industrial management is just as important as management leadership and personnel development.

What actually does coaching mean?

Word origin of the “coaching” concept

Coaching and the increasing demand

Coaching in contrast to consultation

Coaching in contrast to mentoring

Coaching in comparison with psychotherapy

Differences between coaching and supervision

Differences between coaching and training

Coaching and its measurable quality

Types of coaching