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If you google the word self-coaching, you will find approximately 338,000 references, a 0.55% of the number of references of the word coaching (61,000.000). A similar percentage is obtained for the expression coaching yourself (243,000) with a 0.40%.
Although approximate, it is a significant enough fact to recognize that what people understand by self-coaching is a part of recent initiatives that have not been welcome by its potential “self–clients”.
Considering that, in very general terms, coaching is a process where a client hires an expert on the field to help him to think and develop action plans to achieve his goals, basically through question-answer. Then the basic idea of the so-called self coaching would consist on the possibility that one could ask him/herself those same questions and determine, without the interaction of a coach, his action plans to achieve those goals.
So we could say self-coaching requires:
a) Being a coach, or at least being trained on coaching technique.
b) Assuming the double roll of coach and client.
c) Following all the steps and essential requirements of the coaching process.
d) Asking questions and listening to responses – which is what an external coach would do.
e) Obtaining the same results of the process, just like the ones an external coach would obtain.
Do you believe the so-called self-coaching could reproduce a real process of coaching?
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¿Qué es el self-coaching? ¿Es realmente coaching?
Si buscas la palabra self coaching en Google, obtendrás un resultado de 338.000 referencias aproximadamente. Esto equivale al 0,55% del total de referencias respecto de la palabra coaching (61.000.000). Un porcentaje similar se obtiene buscando la expresión coaching yourself (243.000) con un 0,40%. Es un dato, aunque aproximado, lo suficientemente significativo para comprender que lo que la gente entiende por “self-coaching” forma parte de recientes iniciativas que por el momento no han tenido mayor acogida por parte de los potenciales “auto-clientes”.
Si en términos muy sintéticos y generales el coaching es un proceso donde un cliente contrata a un experto en la materia para que éste le ayude a reflexionar y desarrollar planes de acción para conseguir sus más deseados objetivos (fundamentalmente a través de preguntas), la idea básica del denominado self coaching, consistiría en la posibilidad de que sea uno mismo el que se haga dichas preguntas y reflexiones, para así determinar, sin la interacción de un coach, sus planes de acción, y alcanzar igualmente dichos objetivos.
De esta manera podríamos decir que el self-coaching requeriría:
a) Que uno sea coach, o al menos esté formado como tal (si esto no fuera así se vería limitado por su falta de conocimiento del propio proceso de coaching).
b) Que uno asuma un doble roll de coach y coachee permanentemente.
c) Que se sigan todos los pasos y requerimientos imprescindibles del proceso de coaching.
d) Que uno mismo se haga las preguntas y escuchas que haría un coach externo.
e) Que consiga los mismos resultados del proceso, que conseguiría con un coach externo.
¿Creéis que el denominado self-coaching puede reproducir un proceso real de coaching?
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