{"id":1423,"date":"2009-06-03T13:20:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T13:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2016-08-12T02:52:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T10:52:38","slug":"the-definition-of-coaching-the-four-traits-of-a-master-career-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/the-definition-of-coaching-the-four-traits-of-a-master-career-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Definition of Coaching: The Four Traits of a Master Career Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the <strong><a title=\"definition of coaching\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/05\/whats-the-definition-of-coaching-what-do-i-need-to-become-a-life-coach\/\" target=\"_self\">definition of coaching<\/a><\/strong>?\u00a0 Coaching is about results.\u00a0 Whether you are a <strong><a title=\"career coach\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2008\/12\/career-coach-training\u2026investment-strategy-for-the-current-economy\/#comments\" target=\"_self\">career coach<\/a><\/strong>, or another type of coach, the <strong>definition of coaching<\/strong> is directly related to the results your clients receive and your evolution as a coach. To make the definition of coaching more tangible it is necessary to explain it in terms of the four traits of a master <strong>career coach<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Career Coach Traits Help to Illustrate the Definition of Coaching<\/h3>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Outstanding results:<\/p>\n<p>A master <strong>career coac<\/strong><strong>h<\/strong> consistently produces outstanding results.\u00a0 Results are key within the <strong>definition of coaching<\/strong>.\u00a0 Master career coaches stand out from the crowd when coaching clients in their area of practice.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Effortless Results:<\/p>\n<p>Master career coaches perform and make it look effortless to create situations that seem impossible for other coaches.\u00a0 They expend little effort.\u00a0 This is one of the reasons the \u201cfree session\u201d is so much more valuable than simply telling prospective clients what the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">definition of coaching<\/span> means.\u00a0 Many people won\u2019t understand what coaching is all about until they actually experience it.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Total Freedom and Power.<\/p>\n<p>A master <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">career coach<\/span> has the ability to wield their coaching skills in any direction and in increasingly powerful ways creating results without limits.\u00a0 A master <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">career coach<\/span> can get results with anyone.\u00a0 The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">definition of coaching<\/span> may seem a little vague because, even within a niche practice there are endless results you can achieve.\u00a0 There are just so many areas in which you can coach during a single coaching session that it can be difficult to narrow down the definition of coaching.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Their Identity is Coaching:<\/p>\n<p>Career coaches are their craft.\u00a0 They become one with their coaching; a distinction between the individual and the coach no longer exists. When you think of Michael Jordan you think of basketball.\u00a0 When you\u2019re a career coach, you\u2019re always a coach.\u00a0 If something goes wrong in a casual situation, the coach inside comes out.\u00a0 In this way, the definition of coaching is similar to the definition of a being a doctor.\u00a0 Doctors do not slump into their seats when there is an emergency on an airplane they take action; they become a doctor.<\/p>\n<h3>Results Are Key to the Definition of Coaching<\/h3>\n<p>In any definition of coaching, the key is results.\u00a0 When looking at a tangible example of a master career coach you see that coaching is not just about what you help others to accomplish; it\u2019s about who you and your clients become in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Colette Seymann<\/p>\n<p>JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the definition of coaching?\u00a0 Coaching is about results.\u00a0 Whether you are a career coach, or another type of coach, the definition of coaching is directly related to the results your clients receive and your evolution as a coach. To make the definition of coaching more tangible it is necessary to explain it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60],"tags":[820,859],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-career-coach","category-definition-of-coaching","tag-career-coach","tag-definition-of-coaching","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18406,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/18406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}