AC107 Coaching Model

Key Learning Points (extracted from ICA reading)

Coaching is a form of consulting. The difference between coaching and consulting is that a consultant comes in, fixes something, and then leaves. The coach stays with the client to help implement new skills, work through the challenge of change and set an action plan to achieve goals.

Where typically the consultant is an expert in a field, a coach does not claim to be an expert, but is there to bring out the expertise in the client. The coach does not claim to have all the answers, but instead has the right questions to support the client to find their own answers. The relationship with a consultant is usually focused on a particular area and is short term. The relationship with a coach is holistic in nature and is usually a longer-term relationship.

Examples of Coaching Processes
Coaching is a hybrid field, with roots in a range of philosophies and professional practices. As a result there are a number of styles of coaching, which vary according to the tradition or philosophical approach they grew out of. Many management training organisations or departments in universities have their own unique styles of coaching that they advocate for use amongst their students. Many professional coaches have developed their own unique processes and have published these on the internet or in books to share with the rest of the coaching profession. Below is a list of some documented coaching styles, which you may have heard about before or may wish to learn more about.

• Motivational Interviewing
• Reality Therapy
• Socratic Dialogue
• Single-, double-, triple-loop Model (Hargrove)
• Co-Active Model (Solution Focussed Therapy/Coaching (O’Hanlon)
• CAAACS Model (Auerbach)
• Eight Stage Model (Hudson)
• Stage of Change Model (Procheska & Norcross)
• Systems Perspective (Tobias, 1996)
• Systems & Psychodynamic Approach (Kilburg, 1996, 2000)
• Iterative Feedback Model (Diedrich, 1996)
• Multimodal Therapy Model (Richard, 1999)
• REBT (Anderson, 2002; Sherin & Caiger, 2004)
• Transformative-developmental model (Laske, 1999)
• Constructive-developmental theory approach (Fitzgerald & Berger, 2002)
• Action Frame Theory Approach (Cocivera & Cronshaw, 2004)
• Existential Approach (Peltier, 2001)