The Coaching Framework

There are several differing styles of coaching so there are variations on the coaching framework. This is why at CILC we teach you several different approaches so that you, the coach, have a variety of tools to work with in your sessions.

These all have several things in common and they are outlined below:

• Asking powerful and probing questions to elicit the true goals of the coachee and what is the challenge behind the goals

• Using that insight to establishing clear set goals, develop motivation through specific actions with committed timeframes, and identified outcomes

• Identify the existing strengths of the coachee and reinforce them to release the coachee’s ‘buried’ confidence, self-belief and abilities

• Coaches must always challenge the assumptions of the coachee, these often cause limiting beliefs and become excuses for past and present failure

• Seeking out the true motivations for a coachee’s goal and ensure that these are theirs and not what someone else wants them to think and do

• Give real time honest feedback to the coachee’s behaviour or language

• Depending on the approach being used and only when appropriate giving a conceptual framework to the coachee so as to allow them to explore their emotions, behaviours, problems and blockages