Coaching Basics

If a person only sees one option, they get stuck. If they perceive two equally good possibilities, they have a dilemma. However, when they discover three or more viable possibilities, they can think freely and decide clearly.

It is therefore a foundational task in coaching to help the client to discover further options and to support the client in creating possibilities.

Change occurs when people experience themselves as competent, effective and successful.

confidence in the clients’ ability to develop and implement their solutions is expressed.

client is the expert of their subject and the coach is the expert of the process.

What would stand out first for others?

How would you recognise that a problem has been solved?

What they need in coaching above all is a means and ways to do it differently.

If a person only sees one option, they get stuck. If they perceive two equally good possibilities, they have a dilemma. However, when they discover three or more viable possibilities, they can think freely and decide clearly.

The person who knows how to ask good and helpful questions can stir more than someone who thinks they need an answer to everything. (On the whole, this isn't helpful.)