Amiram Hayardeny's My China Experience

About Coaching

You may have noticed that I am struggling with the blog appearance a little.  I happen to be one of those who think that contents is extremely important, but the presentation is also.  So I apologize for changing things a little, but I promise not to fiddle with it for too long, and I accomplish perfection, I will stop.  Just kidding.  I also happen to believe in continuous improvement, the concept of perfection does not agree with that.

Today I had the opportunity to do what I like to do most: coach.  There are many definitions for coaching online.  The one I liked the most was the following:

A sophisticated form of teaching which expands the client's awareness of the internal and external roadblocks and speedbumps in the way of reaching the goal assists in designing and supporting an environment which reinforces and drives the desired change dependant on a level of expertise of the coach in his or her chosen field expertise is education and experience based occurs in the context of deeply engaged conversations which venture fearlessly into sensitive subjects Solves problems and manifests change faster than the client would have done alone.

What I would add is that a good coach lets the client reach a solution to a given problem on his or her own.  In addition, the coach himself can learn a lot in the process.

I have been meaning to do it for a while now, but forgot.  All the pictures I have ever taken with my digital cameras (2 Sonys and the current Canon PowerShot A640) are at www.flickr.com/photos/hayardenys.  You are invited to visit.

Posted at 08:28PM Nov 15, 2006 by Amiram Hayardeny in Personal  |  Comments[0]