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The Coaching Alliance

 

After you introduce the client to coaching and explain what coaching is and

what it isn't, you are ready to design the 'coaching alliance'. How would

your client like to be coached? How can two of you work together to obtain

the best results for the client?

 

One way to help design the alliance is to ask the client to write down the

following:

 

Coaching works for me well when the coach does these things ...

Coaching does not work well for me well when the coach does these things ...

 

This will help you to have a clearer idea how to serve your client better.

 

The coach needs to be more flexible than the client. If a coach cannot

change his style to suit different clients, he limits himself only to a

certain type.

 

The alliance enables the client to be accountable for the results of the

coaching. He is responsible for his own solutions. If the coach tells the

client what to do, the client will not own the solution. This does not mean

that a coach cannot make suggestions, sometimes even strongly, and help the

client choose his own solution. This is very important. Unless the client

realizes that he owns results and is accountable for the coaching, he will

expect the coach to change him. If there is a lack of progress, the client

is likely to blame the coach and the coach may fall into the trap of feeling

responsible for the client's progress.

 

Coaching is an alliance. This is most clear in sports coaching. The sports

coach works with the athlete, but it is the athlete who stands on the

winner's podium, not the coach. The athlete gets the glory and the medals.

The coach has been essential for the athlete's succes, but he takes no

public credit.

 

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