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Specificity of the coaching

The coaching:

aims at the accompaniment of a person in the mobilization of her resources,
research and the application of its own solutions,
the development of the autonomy of the person (including with respect to the coach).

This stimulation of endogenous constitutes the specificity of the step of coaching.

Accompanying never replaces the customer in the choice of better behaviors. Accompanying does not dictate receipts even tested with its customer. The customer is his clean Coach like the patient is his own therapeutist. The coaching is a means with the service of a progression, the Coach or accompanying acts like a catalyst of the change.

At the meetings, the coach will be based on the resources of the customer and will place it in the action. The customer projects himself then in the future and works out a strategy with the Coach, in no manner the customer must justify his missed actions.

It is about a control accompanied by the change for the benefit by an awaited and durable improvement. This one before is very established through self-analysis of the behavior guided by outside and changes in the representations of the customer.

The coaching is neither of the mentorat, neither of the council, nor of the therapy

The mentorat is slightly different because it supposes on behalf of accompanying a high position, a statute of guide. The coach is in high position on the process of change, but in low position on the contents to help the customer to progress in autonomy. We must however note that the official Francization of coaching is mentorat.

It is also necessary to distinguish the coaching from the council and the Psychothérapie. It should besides also be differentiated from some Idéologie S which state to use it: some Sect S, certain movements declaring religious, and certain philosophical movements declaring use the coaching, or the justification of the coaching, to recruit new followers. These movements use it like a form of Autosuggestion or Manipulation, at disputed ends.

History

The coaching is a sector in emergence for which remain of many question and remote regions. Among are those, which the origins?

An immediate remark is essential: a priori, it would not be a new technique but the divergent opinion. For some, one could thus go back to Ve century before J.C with Socrate. This one, precursor of the “Maieutic ” (or art to be confined the spirits), could be recognized like the father of the coaching. The “3eminences grise”, the “confessors” even the “insane ones of the king”, with the Middle Ages, with the Rebirth, could approach some.

For others, the word “coach” would be drawn from French “notches”. Here allusion to the period is made when existed cars driven by a “coachman”: this last accompanied the passengers with their destination. To support that, one can also establish a link with the XIXe century: indeed, in the cultural field (theatrical, lyric and cinematographic), the coach was already a guide, a support for the artist.

The unanimity is made on the other hand to say that the current coaching is known for its concept resulting from the sport. “To coach” means to involve, prepare, accompany, justify. Coming from the Anglo-Saxon countries - the United States in fact - it acts owing to the fact that to gain, the athletes have, not only need for force, musculature or technique but also of a crucial point to make the difference: the mental one.

Who can be coach?

The “profession” of coach, with the corporative direction of the term, has evil to be defined.

The word coaching impacts today with force our imaginary. The offers of service which use the words " coach" or " coaching" we ensure to answer so various requests and sometimes if " exotiques" that the question: " But to me, you exactly say made coaching of what? " becomes récurente. The appearance of this multitude answers requests having like common denominators dilution even the total disappearance of the human factor in the commercial exchanges and the opportunist use by marketing of this deficiency to sell of with dimensions product, the service, other the directions for use. The coaching derived much. (Thank you media) You have, in a field considered which would leave the field of your current competences, need for councils, explanations, of a lighting, to be quite simply guided, you are not more alone. From now on, the specialists sometimes hardly trained, the saving vidéos, the multi-media courses, the magazines, the specialized sites, the hot line surtaxed, are your best friends. The decorator of interior baptized coach déco will advise you to decorate your interior, the coach poker will avoid you making you rake, the coach in relooking in other words the designer new wave sauce years 2000 will be able to repair you. You pass your license, you wish to offer a bouquet of flower, to take holidays, to say not to your children, to change costume, to make plumbing, sport… there is certainly a pseudo coach for each request.

Information near schools is paramount. You must wonder about engineering and the teaching project, the contents of the formation, the quality of the trainers, and to have the feedback of former trainees. You can also take information near various associations of the corporation provided that their independence is really real.

Many people claim themselves coach… This trade does not belong to anybody in particular. It opens with all those which a step integrates and a personal advance lead towards a professional practice authenticates guaranteed by an ethical and deontologic high level.

A person who followed a formation in a recognized school and which is accepted in one of great associations Frenchwoman (SF Coach), European (Open Coaching Network, AEC, EMCC), American (ICF) will tend more to be worthy of confidence.

If you do not know a coach, media Internet will open an immense field of potential contacts to you. Type " to become coach" or " formation coaching" for example, and remain vigilant, professional training with the coaching is not sold per hour. It badly puts up with the claims of some " écoles" with being allegedly the n°1 of this or that.

Schools of coaching

The schools of coaching deliver at the conclusion of the formations; certification, certificate of presence, diploma, professional title, which attests level of knowledge and competences acquired by the pupils or trainees. The competence of the schools, their integrity, the acuity of the contents of their programs are, in the absence of a certification which makes authority, of very different levels. It is important for each future pupils or trainees to know the organizations, universities, companies or administration which recognize today or is pressed on the schools in question.

Professional associations can recommend certain schools of which they recognize pedagogy and the serious one. However their neutrality is sometimes prone to guarantee when the representative of association at the national level, even international, belongs to the one of the schools in question. This " noyautage" too much obvious (the more so as one finds on the sites of known as associations, the advertizings disguised in bearing interview on ethics and the deontology) serves a profession which needs reference mark.

The schools of coaching proposing their major values, their vision, their orientations and teaching choices beyond of a strictly professional or commercial definition are rare.

Certified or formatted coach?

A polemic was born today between the users from coaches. Can the coach be seriously asserted of a school? Why not, that depends on the course suggested. With each one to get information and check, as for a school of psychotherapists.

The trade of coach is now well defined when one speaks about coaching in company because the prescribers and the purchasers are increasingly numerous with knowing to recognize the quality of the coaches.

One can that known as gather two tendencies:

to have a great number of tools resulting from its own experience;
to have a position, so much psychological and philosophical, acquired by the experiment, helping with a support and an accompaniment.

Certain coaches wish a certification. Others prefer to propose the references of their customers, or the fact of having followed the course of a school recognized on the market for its quality.

Associations which " accredit, " titularisent" … are judicious being guarantors of independence in term of evaluation of the coaches. There are several of them:

American:

the International federation of the coaches (ICF = International Coach Federation)
WABC: World association for business coaching;

European:

European Association of Coaching,
European Mentoring and Coaching Council which certify coaches and formations in Europe. The charter of this association is that recognized by the European commission;
Open Coaching Network an association of pars European, German, French, Swedish, Belgian… federate around the same humanistic vision.

French:

French company of Coaching which is the first in date of French associations of professionals of the trade.

Techniques and knowledge-to make

The coaching since passed the doors of the cloakrooms to be introduced into the company. Formerly prerogative of the elites, of the top-ranking executives then high potentials, it is popularized gradually and the “middle management” can from now on profit from it in a certain number of structures and case. This medium recognizes its fast effectiveness and its results to him.

Various approaches or disciplines support the step of coaching:

the psychoanalyst leaves the principle that the " patient" itself the key of will find what he seeks. The major technique of intervention is the questioning, sometimes interpretation. What is prohibited is to give councils. A psychoanalysis lasts a long time.

the coach which refers to the Compromise Analysis leaves the principle that coaché is able to change its beliefs on itself, the world and the others which prevent it from developing its potential. The major techniques of intervention are the establishment of relational contracts as well as the use of “permissions” united with “protections”. What is prohibited is handling.

the systemician does not see the person of coaché like an entity in oneself, but like the component of a vaster relational system in which it is overlapping. The major technique of intervention is the directing intervention, sometimes paradoxical. What is prohibited is to consider only the individual problems.

the coach which refers to the PNL leaves the principle that coaché can “reprogram” its brain to arrive at the state of excellence which it wishes. Are the major techniques of intervention the visualization of the desired state and the questioning on “how arriving there? ”. What is prohibited is to spend time to seek it “why” things.

The trap is to have only one approach, disciplines at its disposal. Indeed, when I practice this trade, during the meeting, to which am I faithful? With does the discipline, approach to which I am trained or with the methodology of the trade? This hesitation in which the coach can find makes us raise this subsidiary question: And the customer in all that? Where is one his place, would have forgotten it to validate his own step of coach? To have at its disposal only one approach could make us fall into a aure traps, that to believe that that I chose is the best, or worse than it is true! And then to check it a little more with each meeting? That is called the counter-transference coach.

Know-how

the coach must know to locate and control the relational processes, i.e. the way in which relations are established and develop according to conscious or unconscious objectives. This requires a very great control of the metacommunication (or “position méta”, in the jargon of the consultants), which consists in being put in the course of maintenance of observer external of oneself, other, and relation.

It must have a deontology, post it, and respect it.

It must have done an important work of personal development in order not to be let involve in its clean “remote regions” at the time of the coaching. If that arrived nevertheless, it must approach this difficulty near a supervisor (the “coach of the coach”) and to have a therapeutist.

Plus the coach has experience of the coaching and contnue to be formed, better that is. From this point of view, the coaching is a profession of “old man” (forty or more).

On the level of the person, the coach doitt to have a method of diagnosis psychological (of the concepts of psychopathology). However, the disciplines which will allow the diagnosis are not equivalent, at the same time by the philosophy which underlies them, and by the relevance of the techniques of intervention employed.

has a more general level, the coach must know to treat certain problems such as the management of “mournings”, the power plays and handling, and to control techniques such as the regulation. A dimension of trainer makes it possible moreover to teach with “coaché” certain concepts, which proves sometimes very useful.

- the strategic approaches which privilege the knowledge of coach (AT, PNL, Systémique based on the 1st cybernetics, and, all profiles of personality). The posture of the coach is in the knowledge and know-how.

- the collaboratives approaches which privilege the knowledge of the customer (constructivism, constructionism, Orientation Solutions, narrative step). The posture of the coach is that of the " not-knowledge and of perplexité" (for Elkaïm), eccentric and influential (Michael White), of abundant curiosity and authentique" (Harry Goolishian and Harlene Anderson).

Unfolding

All depends on the “triangular contract” which is set up at the departure between coaché, the coach and the company. The coach carries out then the intervention with its own know-how. Sometimes it is a question of bringing in urgency an immediate help, but generally to bring coaché to become aware of its own brakes, its unexplored talents and of being thus more conscious of the consequences of its decisions. Obviously, the coach is not there to take those in the place of coaché.

Information practices

Duration of an intervention of coaching

Only one meeting (it is rare), or several months (more frequent). Certain coaches ask for a first stage of two or three meetings before engaging in the duration. Essence remains that the things are clear at the beginning and that the limits of the duration of the coaching are agreed. How long a meeting of coaching lasts?

Very variable according to the coach and the situation. Of 1/2h to 3:00. Sometimes more.

Place

Several options are possible:

the company;
the cabinet of the “coach”;
the telephone;
the public place.

Cost of the coaching

The price of the hour invoiced with the company is usually between 150 € and 500€, sometimes more for exceptional coachings and according to the function of coaché and the reputation of the coach. In private consultation, the cost is generally between 80 € and 100€.

See too

Psychology
Mediation - accompaniment of assistance to decision making for the definition of project in situations whose relations are delicate even conflict
Systémique
individual Coaching
teaching Coaching
Co-coaching

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