| Although coaching will result in the person being | | | | inspirational advice. In the last 20 years this industry has |
| coached to learn something, that really is not the point | | | | exploded with all kinds of people entering the field of |
| of coaching. A coach is someone who deals with, | | | | personal to business coaches through to sports and |
| helps and trains those who have already learned more | | | | fitness coaching. |
| than the basics of what they are involved in. The | | | | Today the business of coaching has expanded all |
| coach normally comes after the teacher has taught a | | | | over the world in both sporting and the non-sporting |
| person the basic grounding in a sport or subject and | | | | environments and listed below is a sampling of the |
| the coach is there to help them achieve their goals or | | | | diversity of the coaching industry. You can have |
| become better at what they are doing. | | | | individual coaching or personal coaching which is often |
| A coach is different from a teacher or even a | | | | referred to or marketed as life coaching. Along side |
| counselor in that they get people to excel in helping | | | | this there is the more traditional area of team coaching |
| them with goal setting, encouragement and answering | | | | and as with individual coaching, team coaching focuses |
| their questions but a coach rarely offers or gives | | | | on improving performance. |
| advice. Many people believe a coach provides expert | | | | Coaching itself can be broken down further into |
| opinions and "how to" advice and answers to the | | | | organizational coaching, business and executive |
| people they coach. This is not the case in that it is not | | | | coaching, systemic coaching, dissertation coaching, all |
| their job to give a solution to a problem but to rather | | | | the way though to dating, co-coaching, music and |
| show those being coached how to solve the problem | | | | leadership coaching, to list only a few areas. |
| or a question themselves. | | | | Today coaching in both the sports and non-sporting |
| The origin of coaching seems to go back to the mid | | | | environments does involve some form of teaching |
| 1800s in traditional English universities where the | | | | (although it is more learning through what those being |
| students were helped by others to pass their exams | | | | coached pick up) but focuses more on non-directive |
| successfully. This began to be known as "cramming" | | | | questioning and provocation to help teams and clients |
| (as it still is today) and those that helped the students | | | | to analyze and solve their own challenges and |
| became known as the coaches. By the late 1800s | | | | problems, rather than offering advice or direction in |
| American college sports teams started having their | | | | solving them. |
| own coaches too. | | | | In the very competitive world we live in many national |
| It was only a short time later that the non-sporting | | | | teams that do not win consistently will consider |
| coach started to appear and during the 20th century | | | | replacing the coach before changing the make-up of |
| people who were not experts in the chosen field of | | | | their team. So you will also find 'the coach', in many |
| those they were coaching started to emerge because | | | | instances, is "result driven" - if they want to hold on to |
| they only needed to offer more general motivation and | | | | their position. |