What is Life Coaching?

What is Life Coaching-Sofia Banagi

What Is Life Coaching?

What is Life Coaching: Historically, the word coach means a wagon-carriage, i.e. that which carries. The term coaching was born in the 19th century, when at the University of Oxford a professor read and examined a student in order to help him pass exams . 
 
Thus, little by little, the term coach began to be used. In a later period of time, it was used in sports.
 
 
Coaching it is called the "transfer" of the students from one goal to successfully conquering the next by someone, i.e. the coach, who has very good knowledge and has communication skills (Yiannakopoulos 2017).
Later it was widely used in America and especially in business. Thomas Leonard, an American financial advisor is referred to as the father of professional life coaching.
He was the one who in 1991 founded the first professional life school and in 1994 the International Coaching Federation (ICF), which is still the main Accreditation Body for life coaches.
Various theories and studies of the 20th century on human behavior, motivation, personality, the conscious and unconscious, learning and development of man, led to the birth of professional, coaching life. According to Maslow, man in order to he is happy and to reach his self-realization he needs to have mastered the following main pillars: 
his need for love and intimacy and that for social recognition, self-esteem, personal worth and a sense of success.
 
* Self-actualization: the realization of a person's spiritual, mental and physical potential as well as the sense of completeness, i.e. internal balance, which this implies with the need of the individual to reach his maximum potential, through the full possible development of personal abilities.

What Is Life Coaching?

Goals you achieve through Life Coaching

The life coaching  as an approach it is aimed at people who wish to follow their desires, achieve their goals and above all feel balanced and happy in their personal and professional lives.

Goals are divided into internal and external.
The goals are internal:
 
  • Self knowledge
  • Emotional and mental maturity
  • Spiritual evolution
  • Self-expression
  • Developing self-confidence 
  • Wellness
 
The external goals:
 
  • Vocational guidance
  • Failure management
  •  Professional and personal relationships
  • career
  • Studies
  • Success management
  • Managing health in natural ways (Giannakopoulou 2017)
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-the goals help the coaching process to be structured so that the client is focused and focused on the solutions and options he has.

How are goals set?

-In positive terms, this method helps the client to be very clear that they are moving towards achieving the goals.

-goals are clear, specific and detailed.

-the goals concern the client himself and not others.

-goals need to be realistic and within the client's control. An example of such a goal is his promotion at work, but this does not depend only on him, but on his manager. A realistic goal in this particular case is for the client to focus on how to increase their performance.

With these ways of setting goals, the client understands what they want to change. Sometimes the client may have difficulty finding what he wants to change, the life coach is there to help him with the questions he will ask him to find what he really wants.

 
 

What Is Life Coaching?

The directions you will receive through Life Coaching

The Coaching therefore, it is a structured process with two directions aimed at improving performance and behavior.
A prerequisite for a good coaching relationship is mutual trust and security.
Coaching sessions include a sequential series of some stages:
 
  • Recognition of individual needs
  • Establishing a goal-purpose
  • Agreement and clarification of the coachee's needs
  • Investigating motivation
  • Alliance with the coach
  • Feedback
  • Analysis of performance against predetermined targets
  • Identification of future needs
 
The time frame of coaching cannot be the same for all people, because people are different and their goals are the same. The process of change in coaching takes place in an environment of acceptance, love, respect, trust and confidentiality. It is very important that the person who turns to a life coach feels that in this relationship he can be himself, without having to prove anything to anyone.
 

What Is Life Coaching?

The Importance of developing through Life Coaching

For me personally it is valuable and moving to see the change of the people I work with and support. I appreciate the trust they show in me and help me develop personally and professionally and understand human nature. Inspiration is what motivates them people to become better and not "should" and "must".
What is Life Coaching: The life coaching now it is a global social phenomenon. Coaching is a science that is connected to other scientific approaches such as positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, solution-focused therapy, counseling (Carl Rogers).
Successful counseling clearly consists of an organized and permissive relationship, which creates the conditions for the client to gain self-awareness to the extent that he can take positive steps in the direction he has chosen (Luizou 1999).
Coaching is therefore a scientifically documented and structured approach, which is safe for humans and effective, as long as it is done by a properly trained professional coach. It is aimed at people without serious psychological problems.
The coach helps people to activate and utilize their positive psychological capital, so that they can meet their needs and realize what they desire.
When we say psychological capital, we mean the mental reserves that each person has to overcome difficulties and disappointments. People who have positive psychological capital have self-esteem, faith in themselves, positivity, vision and easily establish goals. Certainly, this capital by itself is not enough and needs to be utilized and invested.
Ires Yossi in 2008 in an article of great value to our industry, clearly cheats on what coaching is:
A systematic structured process, designed to facilitate emotional, cognitive and behavioral change. Coaching is personalized, i.e. adapted to the needs and personality of the client.

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What Is Life Coaching?

What a Life Coach Should Do

The coach, for his part, needs to have basic training with scientific standards, from experienced professionals.
But above all, a good coach needs to be empathetic and approach his client as a whole. Empathy is a skill is a skill that exists in the human mind and is cultivated. The life coach enters the client's world by understanding their world, their beliefs, their behavior patterns, reading their body language. This is all information that it records in order to understand the person it is talking to.
The coach encourages his client to talk, to open up and he is there with understanding, active listening to listen. The coach supports the coachee in improving personal abilities, performance, learning and personal development.
Coaching focuses on positive emotions, without this meaning that it excludes negative emotions.
It is reasonable and human that clients in coaching sessions experience anxiety, insecurity, discomfort, about their future and about the changes they are about to make. After all, every transition to another situation, whether professional or personal, creates anxiety.
For change to be more smooth, it needs to be based on our own internal motivations and much less on the opinions of others and the expectations they may have of us.
In coaching, they are trained to move from point A to point B, removing obstacles and interferences. It is very important to be able to solve problems, without creating new ones. Point A is the present, the psychological and social now, which is needed to recognize with composure, while point B is the future we want to create and this leads us, evolves us, changes us and matures us as people.
The life coach uses the power of commitment to activate the people who trust him towards change, on a holistic basis, in order to conquer harmony and balance in their lives.

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What Is Life Coaching?

The Goals in a Life Coaching Session

In a coaching-counseling session, goals are set with a joint coach-coachee collaboration. Goal setting means that the consultant and client define specific goals for everything the client wants and a plan for solving difficulties that may arise.

 
Advantages
 
  • The client knows what to expect from the sessions. In this structured and detailed way
  • unrealistic goals (eg to never make a mistake again) are avoided.
  • Goal setting helps the client decide if they wish to continue the sessions or if they just want to get information about something that is going on but still need time to think about whether to continue the sessions.
  • Goal setting itself demonstrates the potential for change and helps the client focus on solutions and future possibilities, rather than the problems themselves.
 

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