Different situations call for a distinctive style of coaching to be applied. We as a coach need to warm up with all the types of techniques to serve our client.
We examine with these styles, which are best accommodated for the typical circumstance.
Let us train ourselves and prepare ourselves fit. I am certain most of us as a coach knowingly or unknowing using these approaches.
What is Insight Focused therapy(IFT) coaching style?
Insight Focused Therapy is a mindfulness-based, integrative therapeutic modality which collects from the latest salient discoveries in neuroscience research and mindfulness studies.
Insight therapy is the umbrella term applied to illustrate a group of various analysis techniques that have some related characteristics in theory and thought.
Insight therapy assumes that an individual’s behavior, thoughts, and emotions become disordered because the individual does not figure out what motivates him/her, specifically when a conflict intensifies between the individual’s needs and his drives.
The theory of insight therapy, thus, is that a better understanding of motivation will result in a rise in regulation and an improvement in thought, emotion, and behavior.
The objective of this analysis is to support an individual to identify the reasons and motivations for his behavior, feelings, and thinking.
Insight therapy helps us to identify the reasons for our negative behaviors, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings. The idea is that once we identify that we are the ones containing all of these elements, we will be capable to act the crucial transformations.
This can be employed as a personal development apparatus.
What is a person-centered coaching style?
The psychologist Carl Rogers has promoted person-centered counseling in a manner that can be inspiring for the coach.
The goal of Person-centered therapy is to provide clients with an opportunity to establish an understanding of self where they can understand how their attitudes, feelings, and behavior are being negatively affected.
The starting point of the Rogerian approach to counseling and psychotherapy is best stated by Rogers (1986) himself:
‘It is that the individual has within himself or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering his or her self-concept, attitudes and self-directed behavior - and that these resources can be tapped if only a definable climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided’.
The self-concept is a fundamental ingredient of our total experience and influences both our perception of the world and the perception of oneself. For example, a woman who perceives herself as strong may well behave with confidence and come to see her actions as actions performed by someone who is confident.
The client is responsible for improving his or her life, not the therapist/Coach.
The Rogerian client-centered approach puts emphasis on the person coming to form an appropriate understanding of their world and themselves.
Client-centered therapy operates according to three basic principles that reflect the attitude of the Coach to the Coachee:
- The Coach is congruent with the Coachee.
- The Coach provides the Coachee with unconditional positive regard: Rogers believed that for people to grow and fulfill their potential it is important that they are valued as themselves.
- The Coach shows empathetic understanding to the Coachee: Follow precisely what the Coachee is feeling and to communicate to them that the Coach understands what they are feeling.
Person-centered therapy is built on trust.
What is a problem-focused coaching style?
In the problem-focused approach, the underpinning assumption is that the coachee requires knowledge of the problem in detail in order to increase the understanding needed for objective progression. In this method, the coaching conversation is more focused on the ‘‘asking why’’.
Discover more about the problem. Why the problem has happened,
In Problem-focused coaching session,
Participants expressed a real-life problem, performed the measures, responded to a series of coaching questions constructed to elicit problem-focused and self-reflective thinking, and then concluded the second set of measures exact to the initial lot.
1. How long has this been a problem? How did it commence?
2. What are your thoughts about this problem?
3. How are these problem thoughts affecting you?
4. What impact is thinking about this issue having on you?
5. What is the root of this problem?
6. What are the circumstances of this problem?
7. When this problem aggravated?
What is a Solution-focused coaching style?
Solution-focused approaches to coaching emphasize the usefulness of maintaining the coaching conversation concentrated on the ‘‘asking how to solve the problem”
The solution-focused approach postulates that coaches should devote most of the time asking questions that evoke thoughts from the coachee about how to best obtain their objectives, rather than asking ‘‘why’’ questions that explore causality. The underpinning theory here is that one does not require to identify the details of a problem in order to be able to build up solutions and advance towards goal attainment.
Think about an achievable solution to the problem you have just outlined. Now, imagine the solution had somehow ‘‘magically’’ come about. Describe the solution.
- Describe some ways you could start to flow towards building this solution.
- What are your thoughts about this solution?
- How do you react when you have these thoughts?
- What impact is thinking about this solution having on you?
- Focus on solutions, not the problems.
- People already have the capabilities they require to transform.
- Change takes place in modest steps.
- Work to discover the hidden aspects.
The coaching process and coaching activities concentrate on the fix, not the problem.
A positive mindset is demanded and reinforced to re-frame the problem into a solution.
Efforts during the coaching session are a collaboration between the coach and coachee.
A transition in view and behavior is recommended to create a solution.
The process is practical and touches on past successes or solution exclusions.
