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What Is Coaching?
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This is not a simple question to answer, but during this episode, we share a few initial thoughts about the essential concepts behind the coaching mindset.
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Welcome to Prime Space Podcast
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Welcome to Prime Space, a Prime Coaching Academy podcast with your host, Elias Scultori.
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Hello everyone, thank you again for listening to another episode of Prime Space.
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Today we are going to be tackling a huge topic.
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Are you ready?
Defining Coaching: A Partnership for Potential
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The question I have right now for us is, what is coaching?
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we are this is episode four of our podcast and we talked a little bit about just introducing our podcast introducing Amy here talking a little bit of the history and the origins of coaching and I thought that it would be important since this podcast is all about coaching well let's talk about what is this that we are talking about what is coaching
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However, I'm a little hesitant to address this topic as I start recording it because it's huge.
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And certainly, we can't cover this in 10 minutes.
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It's a huge topic.
Coaching: Mindset and Transformation
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But why don't we start here with the official definition from the International Coaching Federation?
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And this is what the definition says.
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Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
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Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
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This is humongous.
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And as you can see in this definition alone, wow, there are so many ways that we can put this definition into practice.
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What does it mean to be a partner?
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What does it mean to be thought-provoking, creative, maximizing, inspires?
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There are so many crucial, specific words here.
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And it's wonderful because it gives us this huge spectrum and a spectrum full of opportunities for us to operate in.
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It's exciting
Transformative Coaching and Personal Values
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to see this.
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But one thing that I like to start with is that
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I like to say that coaching is not just a skill set.
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Coaching is a mindset.
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And why do I say this?
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Because coaching is human.
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We are working with another human being.
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And I like to say coaching is a human-to-human experience.
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At Prime Coaching Academy, we start our coach training with these tenets of coaching.
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And these are short phrases that Amy and I have created.
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that really for us encapsulates this practice, this mindset of coaching.
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And one of them is this.
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Coaching is a human-to-human experience.
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So if we are there to support this human being, it's imperative for us to come with our humanity too.
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We meet this other individual.
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Coaching is transformative.
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It's another tenet that we have.
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And why is it transformative?
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What is the proposition behind that?
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You know, it's not simply that we are in a coaching process to find another, what is the next step?
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What am I going to do here?
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Yes, we say that in coaching, if we don't have an action, it's not really coaching.
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But we want that action to be an action that is solid,
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in that particular person's values, in who that individual is.
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It's not an action simply because of best practices, not an action because someone told them to do this and that.
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It's an action because they truly want to do
Historical Roots of Coaching
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this.
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It's an action because it is something that is connected to who they want to become, to how this person wants to live in this world.
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So there is a need in the coaching process for us to go deeper, to find out who do you want to be?
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What is important to you?
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What are your values?
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What do you wish for yourself?
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And that's why it's so transformative, so that the person, when they decide to move forward, they decide to move forward knowing that
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And that action is solid, based on something that is truly who they are.
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Not an action for an action's sake, but an action based on who they truly are.
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And this applies, as you can see, in any category, any situation, professionally, personally, any particular industry, any particular situation.
Integrating Professional and Personal Identities
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It's truly a process to work with the individual for them to have more clarity on how they want to proceed and move forward.
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And coaching is so, this is one thing that I always say, that coaching became this organized profession 30, 40 years ago, not by random.
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We can trace coaching back all the way back, some people say all the way back to Socrates, right?
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And the Socratic method, this idea of investigating, asking a question.
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But to become an organized profession, it only happened in the past few decades.
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Why?
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I don't think it was random.
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And the way my perception, the way I see this, is that since the Industrial Revolution, we have been asking ourselves and our employees to keep your personal lives in the parking lot.
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Come in here and be professionals.
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And what happened there?
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When we do that...
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we are actually asking that particular individual to split themselves in half, smother part of who they are.
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There is even an Apple TV show I like to watch called Severance, where the individual goes through this process
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medical procedure that they own when they are at work they only they don't remember their personal lives and then they go through this elevator and then they go into their personal lives they they don't remember any anything that happened at work
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And it's science fiction.
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It's a TV show.
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But this is, you know, we may laugh about it and think that this is extreme, but this is exactly what we've been asking human beings to do for the longest time.
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And what happened?
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Gallup releases now, I think for the past 10 years, Gallup has released this report called the State of the Global Workplace.
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And consistently in all of these reports, they have come up with the data, right?
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This is data.
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More than, get this, more than three quarters of
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More than 75%, more than three quarters of the work, the workforce go to work every day, disengaged from their work.
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This is heartbreaking.
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More than three quarters of the workforce worldwide, this is everywhere in the world, go to work every day, spend most of their productive lives disengaged from what they are doing.
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We have become automatons.
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And this is unsustainable.
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This is not
Standardizing the Coaching Profession
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sustainable.
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Something needed to happen.
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And that is, I believe, where coaching came to be.
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Okay, so let's integrate.
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Let's look at the whole human being.
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What do you truly want to do?
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How can you contribute to this process?
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How can I as a manager, as a leader, as a CEO, ask a question, invite people in instead of simply ask them to perform a task and become a little robot?
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So this is what is at the core of coaching.
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It's this opportunity for the coach and the clients to come together
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and spend this period of time into like, who are you?
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Who do you want to be?
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What do you want to do next?
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You are in this particular situation.
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What is the crux of the matter here?
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And how do you want to operate based on understanding this a little deeper?
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Let's go and figure out how you want to continue with your life.
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What do you want to decide?
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That is at the core of coaching, partnering with a client,
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in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
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That's at the core of coaching.
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Of course, because this is such a huge topic,
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So there is the danger that, okay, I'm going to come and do this process in one way and another coach another way and another coach another way.
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And so then comes the ICF and with this beautiful job that the ICF has done in the past decades, it's like we need to standardize this somehow.
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So let's come together and see what are the basics?
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What are the basic points here that a coach demonstrates when a coach is in this thought-provoking creative process with their clients?
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And that's where the ICF came and created the ICF core competencies.
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And then later on to standardize certification, the ICF created the different levels of certification.
Artistry in Coaching
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And then the PCC markers, the ACC bars, and the MCC bars.
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And then we went nuts with all of these codes and all of these lists.
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And sometimes I get concerned because we got so enamored
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by these lists that then we believe, we began to believe that these lists are coaching.
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But this list is just a recipe.
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The list is not the cake.
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The list is just a recipe.
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And one can be 100% versed in the recipe, memorize the recipe, know exactly how much flour and milk and butter...
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We are going to put in order to create the cake, but, you know, a lot of people know how to look at the recipe, but have the recipe in front of them and still don't know how to bake a cake.
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Or sometimes they are so fixed on the one point of the recipe and this has to be specific about this and then the cake is stale.
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So what we need to do is not to be enamored by the recipe.
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The recipe is crucial, foundational, but it's really to understand what is behind this recipe.
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Why do I need to mix flour and milk?
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And why do I need to put this amount of butter?
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Why not more?
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So that we can create our own cake.
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So that we can even at some point be able to put the recipe to the side and because I understand the bottom line, the concepts, then I can really build my cake.
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Then I can really play.
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Or maybe in this one, I'm going to put a little bit more orange over here.
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And then I will create an orange cake.
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Right?
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That is the artistry of coaching.
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That is at the core.
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So yes, there is a need for us to go and study the recipe.
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But we need to be very clear that the recipe is not the cake.
Listener Engagement and Conclusion
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The cake is really the moment when we are able to be in front of this human being and really be able to create this thought-provoking process and connect human to human in this transformative process that we have with them.
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Okay?
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So those are just the initial thoughts that I have for this huge question, what is coaching?
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And I would love to hear your thoughts and what you think about this.
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So please put your thoughts in the comments and send me an email, Elias at primecoachingacademy.com.
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And let's talk.
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I would love to hear from you and see what you have to contribute to this conversation.
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I will be back with another episode.
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I hope this was valuable to you and I will see you next time.
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Take care.