Confined to your home, you take your head with the uncertainty that the current crisis raises about your professional future… Until recently, you may have hesitated to leave your job, to reorient yourself or to take on new responsibilities. , and suddenly you no longer know whether to move on or on the contrary to keep things as they are… Your boss, or your loved ones, suggests that you get help from a professional coach, but you are not sure it meets your need. Besides, what is the purpose of professional coaching, precisely? And how to choose the right coach? We have investigated this profession to allow you to see more clearly…
Professional coaching: what is it?
Sports coach, life coach, speaking coach, professional coach… We talk about coaching pretty much all over the place, but then, what is the specificity of professional coaching importance of business plan?
Coaching is therefore an accompaniment method that relies on the coach-coaches alliance relationship in order to establish a dynamic cooperation aimed at changing the person. It allows the implementation of professional objectives, whether individual – in the context of personal coaching – or collective, in the context of team or organizational coaching. In a few words, coaching puts you in motion!
How can professional coaching help you?
The time that each of us enjoys in these days of health crisis can precisely be part of these pivotal moments when being accompanied pays off. What could be better than a quiet moment at home to take stock with a professional and put in place the changes that we have been putting off for a while?
Originally reserved for senior profiles and executives, coaching is now becoming more and more accessible to everyone. And that’s good! If you are going through a difficult professional transition, want to progress in your management style or simply gain self-confidence to assert yourself more in professional life, coaching may be for you!
Concretely, how does the support work?
If coaching is above all a story of the relationship between the client and the coach, there is no question of improvising. The support is framed around specific elements:
- A specific objective: the turn that the support takes depends above all on the specific objectives that you set with your coach, according to your needs and your expectations!
- A defined duration: a coaching approach is always part of a specific framework, over a defined period. The first exchange allows in particular agreeing on duration of accompaniment: number of sessions, duration of accompaniment for example.
- A meeting framework: meetings are organized individually or collectively, face-to-face or remotely (ideal in times of confinement), but also according to everyone’s working methods!
- Practical exercises: the sessions can be punctuated with exercises to do, experiments to try or concrete applications of what was discussed and decided during the discussions.
- Concrete and measurable results: the support must be at the service of your growth, the goal is to obtain concrete results in your professional life.
Often, all of this is formalized in a contract signed by both parties. As a supported person, you undertake to give yourself the means to allow change, evolution, without which the approach could not bear fruit. The coach, on the other hand, is committed in his practice to respecting the ethical rules of his profession, such as respecting the confidentiality of what happens in your follow-up or benefiting from supervision (that is to say from a place to speak with a kind of “coach of coaches” who allows him to reflect on his practices!).
But who are the professional coaches or rather, who are they not?
- A coach is not a psychotherapist: if the coaches know a ray about Man, their work is not intended to relieve psychological suffering. For this, it is better to consult an occupational psychologist.
- A coach is not a trainer: the coach is only intended to facilitate a process of reflection and introspection within you (even if you can leave with valuable techniques or advice, of course!).
- A coach is not a diviner: the coach does not read between the lines, he will not tell you what profession you are made for; he is neither diviner nor magician.
- A coach is not a guru: the role of a coach is to accompany you in your reflections via techniques, but he does not hold the truth.
- A coach is not a decision-maker: your coach is not you; he will not make decisions for you.
So, before choosing a coach, it is better to be clear about your expectations. The person in front of you will never have all the answers to your questions – if they did, it would be almost worrying – but they have the tools and techniques to help you find them.
