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At MAK Executive our skills are diverse, commercial, grounded and innovative. We push the boundaries between past, present, and the future, so that you can transform and move from where you are, towards where you want to be. We partner with you to achieve the dreams you didn't know you had. So discover a new reality today and call us for a free consultation.
Coaching definitions
The methodology used informing and the foundational technology used at MAK Executive is Meta Coaching. Staying true to the founder Dr Michael L. Hall & Michelle Duval are the definitions created, sourced and used within the meta coaching foundation. For more information on meta-coaching see, www.metacoachfoundation.com
What is Coaching?
Coaching is the mobilising of a client's resources to an agreed outcome that unleashes the talents, passions, and potentials of that client so that he or she can experience more, be more, know and feel more, do more, contribute more, and have more. Coaching is a very focused conversation that primarily uses questions and meta-questions to get to the heart of things and facilitate change and transformation. Coaching is about the transformation of performance, beliefs and values, meanings and directions and so is about performance change, evolutionary change, and revolutionary change.
What is Meta-Coaching?
Coaching is by its very nature a field or discipline that works at a higher or meta position to the client and the client's experience. As a sports coach does not have to be an expert in the sport himself, he or she does have to know how to get the best out of the player. A meta-coach is an expert in structure and process rather than in content. The client is his or her own best expert in content.
The Meta-Coach knows how people function and operate and is guided by the six models of communication, change, reflexivity, implementation, systems, and self-actualisation. With that meta-knowledge and meta-skill, the meta-coach is skilled in getting the best out of the client.
What are the types of coaching conversations?
Clarity and precision: coaching is a unique , intense, focused conversation for clarity and precision.
Reflective: coaching is a deep reflective conversation that gets to the heart of the matter, to the frames and meanings in the back of the mind. These are most often outside-of-conscious awareness and therefore touches the deepest and most vulnerable and most precious core of who you are.
Change: coaching is conversation that changes a person, that alters behaviour, that evolves beliefs and identity, and that transforms the very direction and intention of life. It is a conversation that activates and empowers one’s ability to change and to transform self, environment, behaviour and life.
Holistic: coaching is a holistic conversation that works systematically with all of you, in all of the rich dynamic complexity that makes up a person who is a system, living within layers of an embedded system. An effective coaching conversation asks many system questions to expand a clients perspective.
Implementation: coaching is a realistic and down to earth conversation that aims to actualise, implement and execute the insights gained, and then measure the embodiment of those insights. As the conversation inquires about actualising, it seeks to measure the intangibles, co-creating measures, milestones to actualise your dreams.
Self Actualisation: Coaching is self actualising conversation that enables one to unleash every interference and be enabled to be fully and completely ones best self, actualising ones highest meanings and best performances.
Facilitative: coaching is facilitative conversation that activates a person to step up to choice point, accept full ownership for ones life, and empower ones sense of response-ability for taking effective action, to create the difference in ones world.
What coaching is NOT
Coaching is NOT Training
Training is a skill-based process for teaching and educating a person through a process to become able to perform new skills. Training is solution oriented and is skill-centred or focused. In training, an expert provides information and experience for the new skill to be developed and refined. While a Coaching participant may learn, Coaching is NOT teaching.
Coaching is NOT Mentoring
Mentoring is focuses on a particular skill that a person wants to develop. The mentor is typically more experienced, and skilled and gives suggestions, guidance, and direction. Mentoring presupposes an unequal relationship in that a senior person (the mentor) passes on specific information to a less experienced person. While a Coaching participant may gain clarity and direction, Coaching is NOT guiding others to replicate the Coaches success.
Coaching is NOT Counselling (and Therapy)
Counselling and therapy focuses on problems for the purpose of bringing resolution to them. Therapy refers to the healing of hurts and counselling typically focuses on the counsel or guidance for how to live life. In both there is a focus on the source or sources of problems and the symptoms that result from those problems. Both also typically (in traditional psychology, not the newer Cognitive therapies) consider people as broken and dysfunctional and needs to be helped or fixed. As such counselling and therapy focuses on healing hurts and bringing resolution to personal pain. Both imply that there's something wrong that needs to be fixed. While Coaching may provide solutions, Coaching is NOT about fixing the past.
Coaching is NOT Consulting
Consulting involves giving advice and using one's own expertise in a given field to inform or tell an individual what to do. While consulting can be facilitative, it can also involve procedures, and help people to do something new. Consulting most often takes responsibility for outcomes and results. A Professional Coach NEVER gives advice after contracting to work with a client.