What is coaching? Or life coaching?
The definition for coaching that I like the most is by Stephen Fairley, who said, “Coaching is a one-to-one interactive relationship that helps people identify and accomplish their personal and professional goals faster than they could on their own” (Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching, 31).Coaching is a partnering relationship that maintains focus on the wants and desires of the client. Coaching shares many of its skills with other professional fields like counseling, psychology, consulting and mentoring. While coaching may have similarities to these other fields, it’s very important to understand that coaching is in a class of its own (please see differences from counseling, consulting and mentoring below). Within the field of coaching, there are many different specialties, however most coaches fall into one of these 3 categories: business coach, executive coach, and life or relationship coach.
