Coaching with Access HR
The Access HR Team | 1 Jun 2007 12:37 AM
Why have coaching?
Access HR has integrated coaching into their organisation to assist clients with their professional development. Often there are perceived gaps within a clients development which needs to be identified and clarified so clients can develop to their fullest potential overcoming barriers that may restrict them from moving beyond where they are in their development and learning process. Often clients are already looking for change, important goals to reach, better fulfillment, better balance wanting to create a transformation, utilizing coaching to achieve its maximum benefit.
The coach uses a wide variety of behavioral techniques and methods to assist the client achieve a mutually identifiable set of goals to improve his or her professional performance. Ultimately this will create personal satisfaction whilst improving and enhancing organisational effectiveness within a formally defined coaching agreement.
What is coaching
Coaching in contrast to mentoring does not need to have direct experience of your job, and most likely comes from outside of the organization. A coach helps people to improve their individual effectiveness so that they can accomplish specific goals.
When a coach coaches an individual client the client is usually wanting to reach a higher level of performance, learning or satisfaction. The client is not seeking emotional healing or relief from psychological pain.
The coach supports the client so the client can take action to move towards a goal with the support of the coach. The client has a high level of learning regarding their position and has the ability to take action to progress to the next stage of development.
The Relationship in Coaching
A coach relates to the client as a partner. A coach does not relate to the client from a position of expert, authority or healer.
Relationship is the foundation of coaching. The coach and client intentionally develop a relationship which is characterized by a growing mutual appreciation and respect for each other as individuals. This relationship is not an adjunct to or by product of the coaching. Nor is it based on the client’s position or performance.
Honesty and trust are the trademarks of making a relationship work. The client must be upfront on their feelings, what they think and what their abilities are. The client needs to commit to experimenting with new ways of thinking, behaving and operating.
The coach and client together choose the focus, format and desired outcomes for their work. The client takes on the ultimate responsibility to create, maintain and action the outcomes.
Advice
Advice, opinions, or suggestions are occasionally offered in coaching. Both the client and the coach understand that the client is free to accept or decline what is offered from the coach.
Time Frames
Coaching concentrates primarily on the present and future. Coaching does not focus on the past or on the past’s impact on the present.
Coaching uses information from the client’s past to clarify where the client is today. It does not depend on resolution of the past to move the client forward.
Ongoing relationship
Coaching is designed to provide clients with greater confidence in their ability and a greater capacity to produce results.
In coaching any contribution to the coach from the client assists in producing the client’s desired outcome. The coach’s role does not include producing a contracted product or result outside of the coaching sessions. Clients do not leave coaching with a perception that they need to rely on a coach in order to produce similar results in the future.
To find a coach it is important that a client seeks out a coach that has an accredited qualification and that they are a member of the International Coaching Federation of Australasia which ensures a high standard of practice and ethical standards.
Find out More
To find more about coaching and how Access HR can assist you with your professional development contact Anna Lane on (03) 9544 1899. Access HR have integrated coaching into their business and are looking forward to working with clients to ensure maximum performance within their organizations.