Goals of Coaching

Good coaching should be tailored to the needs of the individual client. It should include flexibility of method in its aim to help clients reach goals, develop new skills, and overcome personal challenges. Under optimal conditions, with the right coach, changes can be long-lasting.

Performance coaching:

The focus of performance coaching is to help individuals at all levels better understand the requirements of their trade and their innate capacities in order to optimize their successes. By identifying current gaps in performance and self-sabotaging tendencies, and determining what it takes to fill those gaps and end self-sabotage, clients are able to develop plans for future success by mining their strengths and practicing to overcome weaknesses.

Career coaching:

In career coaching, coaches help clients identify what they want and need from their careers in order to achieve professional satisfaction. This type of coaching also relies on an objective assessment of a client’s strengths and weaknesses. Coaches can then help clients follow through on making the necessary changes to pursue a suitable career and create a work/life balance.

Relationship coaching:

Relationship coaching aims to assist two or more individuals in deciding what they want out of their relationship, and then identify the path to achieve a mutually agreeable outcome. Relationship coaching can be implemented in many types of relationships, including romantic, familial (parent-child, siblings, etc.), professional (business partners), and platonic ones.

Personal/Life coaching:

In life coaching, coaches aim to help clients gain awareness of their personal life goals and priorities. Through this process, clients can assert control over their lives and achieve clarity of mind and a renewed sense of purpose. A coach with a mental health background can help clients learn to better understand their feelings and how those feelings affect their actions and their ability to identify and achieve their goals. Clients can also learn to increase their fulfillment and achieve success by setting actionable goals that are consistent with their values and their current priorities.

It is important to find the right coach: one who will be candid with you about his or her limitations, and one who will not shy away from telling you how you may be getting in your own way and sabotaging your potential.