coaching definition

Kodak GAR Coach Circle
1st Followup Workshop Prework #1
Prework:Please think about Q1 &2, and share with the team your favorite coaching definitions and explain why during the workshop.
Q1: What are your favorite definitions of coaching?
Here are some examples of coaching definition:
•PDI definition:
Coaching is the process of equipping people with the tools, knowledge, and
opportunities they need to fully develop themselves to be more effective. The
role the coach is to orchestrate the development process. Coaching is about
facilitating the process of people developing themselves.
•Kodak chosen definition, from Truth, Trust and The Bottom Line:
o Coaching is the process of developing a relationship and environment through which people can discover their greatness, deal with their
deficiencies and dark sides, reach more of their potential, and accomplish
their work and career objectives.
▪Coaching is the process of helping a “coachee” to clarify his/her thinking and find solutions by him/herself with the use of listening and questioning techniques,
assessments and feedback and other relevant skills, e.g. “managing
defensiveness”, giving clear feedback, etc.. It is very important that solutions are “owned” by the coachee, and not something that is p rescribed or dictated by the
coach >> “leading the horse to the water, and letting the horse drink on his own,
rather than pouring the water down the horse’s throat”.
More about coaching….
▪Coaching is about the bone-deep desire to make a difference, whether in the life of one person, a group, or an entire organization
- Robert Hargrove, Masterful Coaching ▪Coaching is
- a collaborative relationship focused on enabling an individual to
become his or her “best self”
-an ego-less process in which Coachable Moments are created to
draw out distinctions and promote shifts
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▪The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organziation’s valuable resources.
•Masterful coaching invovles helping people transform themselves, their communities, and their world. It involves impacting people’s visions and values
as well as helping them reshape their way of being, thinking, and actions. It
involves challenging and supporting people in achieving higher levels of
performance while allowing them to bring out the best in themselves and those
around them. It means going through a deep learning process that results in
embodying new skills and capabilities. Masterful coaching involves expanding
people’s capacity to take effective action.
- Robert Hargrove, Masterful Coaching Be the Coach vs. Do the Coaching
• A person who is a coach fully owns the principles and standards of coaching and behaves in a consistent manner to foster development in others at all times. A
person who does coaching uses various techniques on a random basis that may or may not be consistent.
Q2: What is coaching in manager’s mind?
Usually, managers think that telling people what they should be doing and prescribing solutions is “coaching”. What do you think?。