CHAPTER 6

BUILDING COACHING SKILLS: THE DIFFERENT APPROACHES

If Big Five coaching is the tree, then what baubles would you like to hang on it? If any? Some people think all trees, including this one, are beautiful in their own right and leave it well alone; they coach using the core elements of contracting, GROW, listening, etc. and do good work. Others add so many baubles and ornaments the tree groans under their weight. Others again just set a single star atop the tree – an approach or guru who illuminates their coaching.

This chapter sets out some of the possibilities, so you can decorate your own tree, or not, as you wish. There are countless different options, so I have grouped them into:

  1. 1other coaching models; then approaches from:

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