What is Coaching?

Popular Definitions of Coaching

Practical definition

Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

Whitmore (1992)

Practitioner’s definition (International Coach Federation (ICF))

ICF defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential.

Academic definition

A Socratic based future focused dialogue between a facilitator (coach) and a participant (coachee/client), where the facilitator uses open questions, active listening, summaries and reflections which are aimed at stimulating the self-awareness and personal responsibility of the participant.

Passmore & Fillery-Travis (2011)


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