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Concepts Important to Coaching

What’s Inside This Chapter

This chapter reviews several theories and underlying constructs to help you apply the coaching approach in your own work. You’ll learn about:

• the nature of how people change

• social construction

• why the definition of success is important

• coaching by walking around.

 

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Concepts Important to Coaching

Adult Learning Theory

Coaches help performers learn, grow, and realize potential. This is not always easy because adult learners can be resistant, fickle, or choosy about the ways and under which conditions they learn. Although it is the coaches who are generally not providing the ...

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