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10. Within the partnership, what does the coach do? The individual? |
The role of the coach is to provide objective assessment and
observations that foster the individual’s or team members’ enhanced
self-awareness and awareness of others, practice astute listening in
order to garner a full understanding of the individual’s or team’s
circumstances, be a sounding board in support of possibility thinking
and thoughtful planning and decision making, champion opportunities and
potential, encourage stretch and challenge commensurate with personal
strengths and aspirations, foster the shifts in thinking that reveal
fresh perspectives, challenge blind spots in order to illuminate new
possibilities, and support the creation of alternative scenarios.
Finally, the coach maintains professional boundaries in the coaching
relationship, including confidentiality, and adheres to the coaching
profession’s code of ethics.
The role of the individual or team is to create the coaching agenda
based on personally meaningful coaching goals, utilize assessment and
observations to enhance self-awareness and awareness of others,
envision personal and/or organizational success, assume full
responsibility for personal decisions and actions, utilize the coaching
process to promote possibility thinking and fresh perspectives, take
courageous action in alignment with personal goals and aspirations,
engage big picture thinking and problem solving skills, and utilize the
tools, concepts, models and principles provided by the coach to engage
effective forward actions.
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