Talk:Coaching/Archives/2013

Categorisation
I query this topic being under Psychology - many successful coaches have no formal and only a little informal knowledge of psychology, and coaching as defined pays scant attention to the past history of a client. A personal development category would be far more appropriate in my view. ChrisThomasUK 09:01, 22 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChrisThomasUK (talk • contribs)

Because the origin of coaching comes from psychology and after a significant period of time has then expanded to encompass other areas such as career coaching (counselling), workplace business coaching, executive coaching etc. The theories, activites, questions etc are still heavily entrenched in psychology theories and principles etc.

In addition, only a subset of psychotherapies focus on the past. Behavioral, cognitive behavioral, and third-wave (mindfulness-based) therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy often are present-focused, and counseling psychologists who deal with work-life or school issues are also clearly present-focused. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kamatoa (talk • contribs) 17:26, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Life Coaching Section
I just read the section on Life Coaching, and the notice prior to the material, which states that it is in a promotional tone. Actually, it is written in the tone of a job description from the occupational database titles. I have done much career searching and have a degree in marketing communications, and I can attest that this section on life coaching, at least, is _not_ overly promotional.

76.170.91.249 (talk) 04:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)Juan Antonio D

The life coaching section was pretty terrible. It ignored many of the pertinent issues that could get a life coach in big trouble, particularly the efforts of some states to warn practitioners against acting as unlicensed psychologists or counselors. This info was added in and relevant state statutes or memos were cited (CO, HI, & TN). Info about the legal circumstances for life coaches in additional states welcome.

Differentiating sports coaching from other coaching categories
Sports coaching needs a separate heading as it is different to others forms of coaching such as business coaching, relationship coaching and conflict coaching that are subdivisions of life coaching. --Vince (talk) 09:20, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Coaching seems to have become a catch all term that describes a relationship between someone who wants some goal and someone who claims they have the ability to assist them to achieve it. Seems to be a way to sell "self help" on a one to one basis rather than by writing a book. Useful for someone without any particular expertise to pass themselves of as having a generic ill defined expertise. I think an encyclopedia should simply report this as a cultural/historical phenomena rather than as in this article a solid body of knowledge.Alnpete (talk) 14:49, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Coaching - being a coach means you are the 'vehicle' to enable a person (coachee) to achieve their goal. You are assisting them on their journey. Where the coachee has all the solutions and options available to them and they know how to get where they need to go to achieve their goal and you are the 'vehicle' through the right questioning techniques and activities to get the coachee to realise that they have/need to do to plan and define a way forward to achieve them. This is a definition in the simplest terms. What are you guys doing? There are many hihgly regarded academic papers and books written on this. There are coaching models like the GROW model which was written by Sir John Whitmore many decades ago which has been researched, documented and highly evaluated for its validity. I'm not touching this document as I know nothing about technology but those of you who do...it takes next to nothing to fix this article and make it valid.

There is also coaching of sport coaches: http://www.sailing.org/training/nlstp/sport_coaching_framework user:suwa 05:07, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Coachee
Just as the popular press apparently decided that a person being mentored was a "mentee" instead of the appropriate title, protégé, the word coachee sounds like another instance of not finding out the appropriate term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.49.92.255 (talk) 18:19, 1 October 2013 (UTC)