From Coach To Awakener
by Robert Dilts /
2003 / English / PDF
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Coaching is the process of helping people and teams to perform at
the peak of their abillities. It involves drawing out people's
strengths, helping them to bypass personal barriers and limits in
order to achieve their personal bests, and facilitating them to
function more effectively as members of a team.
Coaching is the process of helping people and teams to perform at
the peak of their abillities. It involves drawing out people's
strengths, helping them to bypass personal barriers and limits in
order to achieve their personal bests, and facilitating them to
function more effectively as members of a team.
Historically, coaching has been focused toward achieving
improvement with respect to a specific behavioral performance. This
involves promoting the development of that person's behavioral
competence through careful observation and feedback.
Historically, coaching has been focused toward achieving
improvement with respect to a specific behavioral performance. This
involves promoting the development of that person's behavioral
competence through careful observation and feedback.
In recent years, the notion of coaching has taken on a more
generalized and expanded meaning. Personal coaching, executive
coaching and life coaching provide support on a number of different
levels: behaviors, capabilities, beliefs, values, identity and even
spirtual. These new and more comprehensive forms of
coaching-executive coaching and life coaching-can be referred to as
capital-C- Coaching. Large C Coaching involves helping people
effectively achieve out comes on a range of levels. We guide people
to learn about new environments, for instance; coach them to
improve specific behavioral competencies; teach them new cognitive
capabilities; mentor empowering eliefs and values; sponsor growth
at the identity level; and awaken people's awareness of the larger
system or field.
In recent years, the notion of coaching has taken on a more
generalized and expanded meaning. Personal coaching, executive
coaching and life coaching provide support on a number of different
levels: behaviors, capabilities, beliefs, values, identity and even
spirtual. These new and more comprehensive forms of
coaching-executive coaching and life coaching-can be referred to as
capital-C- Coaching. Large C Coaching involves helping people
effectively achieve out comes on a range of levels. We guide people
to learn about new environments, for instance; coach them to
improve specific behavioral competencies; teach them new cognitive
capabilities; mentor empowering eliefs and values; sponsor growth
at the identity level; and awaken people's awareness of the larger
system or field.
This book defines the types of contexts and situations which
require the capital C Coach to focus on one of these roles -
caretaker, guide, coach, teacher, mentor, sponsor, awakener - and
provides a specific toolbox for each role. In other words, it
provides a comprehensive tool set to be used by an effective coach
to manage the entire scope of large C Coaching activities- from
caretaking to awakening.
This book defines the types of contexts and situations which
require the capital C Coach to focus on one of these roles -
caretaker, guide, coach, teacher, mentor, sponsor, awakener - and
provides a specific toolbox for each role. In other words, it
provides a comprehensive tool set to be used by an effective coach
to manage the entire scope of large C Coaching activities- from
caretaking to awakening.
