{"id":11457,"date":"2023-03-16T11:02:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T11:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=11457"},"modified":"2023-03-03T19:31:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T19:31:38","slug":"doing-coaching-versus-being-a-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/doing-coaching-versus-being-a-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Coaching versus Being a Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doing Coaching vs Being a Coach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What is the difference between doing coaching and being a coach?\u00a0 In short, doing coaching is the technical tasks and actions.\u00a0 Being a coach goes deeper and involves truly embodying coaching competencies, ethics, and a coaching mindset.\u00a0 Becoming a coach starts with doing and evolves with being.<\/p>\n

When doing coaching<\/a>, the ethics, competencies, and markers are nice to have resources.\u00a0 While ideally, they are applied, it is more superficial.\u00a0 Being a coach means the ethics, competencies, and markers are fully ingrained and embodied as a natural and authentic part of the coach.<\/p>\n

Initially learning to do coaching involves standardized questionnaires.\u00a0 This evolves to asking questions in the moment based on the conversation.\u00a0 Doing coaching may mean the questions are more surface level and sometimes more focused on tasks.\u00a0 Being a coach means the questions go below the surface and evoke more awareness.\u00a0 Questions when being a coach fully incorporate the whole person.<\/p>\n

Initially, when doing coaching, there may be a desire to go in a certain direction or for a certain solution.\u00a0 As the coach evolves to being a coach, they confidently hold the client as fully capable and ensure the client chooses, the focus and direction of the conversation, does the exploration, and discovers their own solutions.<\/p>\n

When doing coaching there is a focus on the performance of the coach.\u00a0 When being a coach the focus is completely on serving the client.\u00a0 The competencies of Embodies a Coaching Mindset and Maintains Presence both speak to being a coach and in turn support the competencies<\/a> of Listens Actively, Evokes Awareness, and Facilitates Client Growth.<\/p>\n

Being a coach<\/a> requires confidence and curiosity developed through a growth process during coach training and while coaching; while leaning and doing coaching, the coach evolves to being a coach.\u00a0 The goal for coaches is to start with doing and grow to being a coach thus serving clients in the best way possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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