What is Coaching?

Coaching and how can it help you

Coaching is a collaborative process with the express purpose of enhancing the life experience, skills, performance, capacities or wellbeing of the client.

This is achieved through the systematic use of theory and practice to facilitate the client’s goals in their particular context. Coaching can be time limited or ongoing.

Working with a coach establishes a reflective space where you can experiment with ideas and build capacity and energy for change. The focus in coaching can move between the horizon (strategic) and the immediate environment (specific) and aims to grow new thinking.

Coaching promotes curiosity and will help you synthesize and articulate the conditions you need to achieve your goals and influence your own potential.

What is Professional Coaching?

Professional coaching is personalized professional development.

People engage a professional coach to help them improve their performance improve their well-being or because they’re grappling with a particular dilemma. You co-design what you focus on with your coach. Sharee Johnson explains…

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as ‘partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential.‘

Coaching is future focused and goal oriented. It is designed to stimulate new thinking, personal insight and wellness, and to build skills. Coaching is action oriented and promotes unique solutions because we are all different. We will work with you using questions and feedback in such a way that you are able to take what you know, into what you do.

Read about the core competencies of coaching by ICF.

Read more about coaching here.

Why would I engage a coach?

Coaching prioritises a safe time and place that is outside the person’s normal workplace to:

• Reflect and experiment with ideas,
• Refocus purpose and goals,
• Make empowered decisions about change,
• Build skills,
• Create a system of accountability that is self directed.

The client uses this time to create a life they really want, one filled with personal meaning and one that supports taking action on their goals. The essence of coaching is shifting mindsets, seeking fulfilment and achieving beyond what we thought was possible, with clarity and hope. Have you got a plan? Coaching is a great process for checking in with your self and making or reviewing your plan.

Coaching can help you:

• To perform at your peak
• Lead others
• Deal with your workplace challenges
• Manage your career proactively
• Relate more effectively with your colleagues and patients
• Maintain or regain your own well-being consistently
• Develop skills in relaxation
• Build personal resilience

Explore how having a coach outside your workplace can help you develop your potential and promote your health.

Unlock your potential, be the healthcare professional you want to be, energised, effective, fulfilled, and see your family!

A Balanced Life

‘Coaching for Doctors: A Balanced Life’ White Paper explores how coaching can help you in your work as a doctor and as an employer of doctors.

The paper explores how the systemic use of coaching can help healthcare develop the skills of doctors so that they can lead teams more effectively and take better care of themselves, their colleagues and their patients. Coaching embedded at the most systemic level could mean that this more developed workforce could alter the healthcare system significantly to be safer and more effective for all.

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