Coaching Today

In the modern world, as people’s lives become more complex and they are offered greater opportunities, they may also realise that they have been presented with a wider range of choices; and the multiplicity and challenge of these choices means that they often need external objective guidance and support.

That support can now be found in the form of a professional Coach.

Strangely this guide or coach does not offer specific answers to these life challenges or choices, nor does the coach offer their client relevant technical/professional knowledge or support. The coach operates from the clear presupposition that their client already has all the resources necessary and by the use of skilful questioning seeks to enable them to access their hidden or even dormant potential.

A coach regards their client as a skilled, whole and resourceful individual within their own areas of expertise. The coach is also skilled and expert in the art of “not knowing”, in listening and asking powerful questions that provide the mirror, the necessary objective enabling external perspective on the clients’ life. It is this new perspective – that ah ha! moment that produces those exciting, motivating, and for some, life changing results in their personal life, family interactions, work place or if they are a senior executive, their whole company.

Simply put – Coaching reintroduces individuals to the potential of their own internal resources.

The European Coaching Institute (ECI) http://www.europeancoachinginstitute.org
defines coaching as “ Coaching is a simple yet effective form of personal development where the client and coach create an alliance that promotes and sustains the client’s personal growth and competence”

Modern coaches come from a wide variety of backgrounds, with a common belief that their clients have the innate potential to achieve greatness and that the coach is the enabling catalyst.

Today’s coaches help clients to take an initial inventory of the balance of their lives, explore where they have and where they wish to commit their energy, understand their core beliefs and values – and with this knowledge enable them to move onwards by facilitating the removal of their limiting beliefs, and by setting realistic and achievable goals or outcomes move quickly into a focused and sustainable future.

The modern ECI Coach is professionally trained with a comprehensive “Tool Bag” that includes powerful questions that helps a client to cease their evasion and confusion, and guide them towards clarity, action and discovering themselves at a far deeper level.

There are at least 23 headings for these questions ranging from anticipation, assessment, and clarification to resources, summary and taking action. Specific questions at the correct time achieve tangible results that change your clients’ reality and enable them to achieve.

There are also other tools available to the coach, including psychometrics, NLP, counselling skills, and their own life experience gained across a diverse variety of backgrounds.

When considering your own or company coaching requirements look to those that have been trained by an international certifying body such as the European Coaching Institute on http://www.europeancoachinginstitute.org


John Fielder is an experienced and accredited Master Coach, certified NLP Coach, NLP Master and NLP Trainer.

He is also a Chartered HR and Management professional (MCIPD & FCMI) with proven expertise in coaching, training, transition management, assessment centres and career development.

You can contact him at 01344 303370, http://www.johnfielder.holisticlocal.co.uk
or johnfielder@btopenworld.com