Now
I live in London where I am studying a master in Career Coaching at
University of East London, and I am working as Library Assistant at London
Borough of Hillingdon.
Today
I would like to tell you about some issues related to coaching, like
the elements that makes effective coaching or how to enhance some
attributes related to the way of being to be a good coach.
According
to McKenna, D. D. and Davis, S.L. (2009). Hidden in plain sight: The
active ingredients of executive coaching. Industrial and
Organizational Psychology 2(3), 244-260, there are four factors which
influences the success of psychotherapy and this studies could be
applied in the same way to executive coaching.
This
ingredients are Client/extratherapeutic factors, influencing the
success of the therapy in 40%, which is related with the
characteristics of the client and his environment. The quality of the
therapeutic relationship, in this case the relationship between the
coach and the coachee influences in a 30% the output of the therapy.
In the third place we have Expectancy, hope, and placebo effects,
this it would be related with the believes and thoughts of the
coachee about the therapy, influencing it in a 15%. And to finish
with the same percentage of influence (15%) we can find the theory
and techniques used by the coach.
In
my opinion the most important it would be the confidence of the coach
in herself and his capacities together with her confidence with the
theory and techniques and her skills to build a good relationship and
to analyse the situation of the coachee which would make the
difference in a good coaching. From my perspective the confidence of
the coachee would impact on all the factors described because it
would make the coach more capable to build a good relationship, it
would facilitate the hope in the coachee (as long as it could be
influenced) and it would provide the coach with more calm to use
theories and analyse the extraterapeutic factors of the client.
My
goal doing the MSc Career Coaching at University of East London is to
gain confidence in coaching and in my capacity of deliver a good
coaching. I think learning the theory of coaching I will develop more
confidence in it apart of learn about the different skills I would
need to improve to build a good therapeutic relationship, which, in
my case I am thinking it could be more focus in active listening and
how to ask the right questions which makes my future coachee think in
the key points to achieve her goals. Apart of that I think there is a
component of self-confidence that can always be improved in order to
become a good coach.
In
other hand according to van
Nieuwerburgh C. (2013), An
introduction to coaching skills, a good coaching is composed by three
elements, Coaching skills, coaching process and way of being,
regarding the last one here we have some attributes who would help.
Being interested: It is very difficult to show good listening skills and enhance in a coaching session if the coachee is not interested in what is being told during this one. Having interest is linking with two things from my perspective, being enhance with your life and having learning as a value, knowing that as much as you learn about different things, better can be your life or go further and see life as a process of continuing learning.
Being genuine: Again, it would be really difficult to enhance in a good therapeutic relationship if the coach is not being genuine in his performance because even unconsciously it is possible to notice it. Being genuine would improve your coaching skills and your performance as a coach, this could mean not to earn some income because you have to reject a potential client when you are not sure about if you could help her as a coach.
Liking people: It is difficult to imagine a coach who doesn't like people, as your work as a coach is to help the to improve their life and performance, liking people it is related with your approach of life, your level of optimism and your capacity to see good things in others and built good relationships.
Believing in people: If you are going to help someone to solve a problem, improve their performance and/or achieve a goal it is very obvious that would be difficult to doing it if you don't believe that this is possible if you don't think that this it would be better for this person as it would be better for her environment and the entire world. To be a person who believe in people it help to think that everyone is trying to do their best in life and when their actions are not good for their environment probably it has something to do with their believes of bad emotions, and they think that this would be the best way to do. But if we try to avoid this situation as much as possible, people would contribute to the welfare of their environment.
For
now and a way of coming back I will leave it here. I hope my new life
will give me more thoughts to share with you hoping that you find it
interesting.
