What exactly is coaching? And how is it different from counselling or psychology?
While counselling and psychology are wonderful for healing, understanding patterns and making sense of the past, Counsellors and Psychologists – generally speaking – spend often 80-90% of their time looking at your past and its impact on the present – to unpack what already happened, to process and to heal. Coaching, though, has a very different focus.
In coaching we are spending 80-90% of our time in the future and the present . We only go quickly back to gain learnings, change perspective, and only if need be.
But the focus is all about who you want to become, who you need to be – right now – and what conscious choices and actions will get you there.
Coaching is pragmatic and result-focused, yes – but it’s also deeply human. It’s about unlocking your potential, aligning with your values and stepping into your humble power as an authentic leader.
So, the question is – do you want to keep replaying the past, or do you want to create the future you know is meant to be?
Meet the author
An Executive Coaching Point of View (ExCoVi)
As an Executive Master Coach and Trainer, I am very fortunate to work with various talented, high-achieving and wonderful people. Every time I coach, I learn something new about my client, our society and myself. The summary of thoughts is based on emerging themes across all kinds of interactions I have; be it one-on-one executive coaching, group coaching or coaching training. ExCoVis are meant to invite people to think differently based on scientifically or statistically proven understanding and lateral thinking. None of the content is meant to offend anyone in any way and is rather an invitation to discuss different executive points of view with respect and integrity. The content is shared to raise awareness and to inspire people to integrate their conscious and unconscious mind and therefore transform unconscious behaviour into conscious behaviour.
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