The Coaching Cycle
Coaching sessions take place within a coaching cycle. The coaching cycle can be described in many ways.
The High Growth Enterprise Coaching Cycle comprises five stages:
- Stage 1: Engaging
- Stage 2: Exploring
- Stage 3: Visioning
- Stage 4: Implementing
- Stage 5: Reviewing & Sustaining
The High Growth Enterprise Coaching Cycle
During the engagement stage of the High Growth Enterprise Coaching Cycle, High Growth Enterprise Coaches:
- Take time to build rapport with clients
- Invite clients to review and reflect on the previous action plan (if this is not the first coaching session)
- Help clients to define their requirements
- Discuss client expectations of the coaching to be delivered
- Explain the role and responsibilities of the High Growth Coach
- Clarify client roles and responsibilities in the coaching process
- Agree the coaching process with clients
- Explore with clients what they want to achieve from the coaching
- Agree with clients the planned outcomes of the coaching
- Confirm understanding of client requirements and planned outcomes before moving on
During the exploring stage of the High Growth Enterprise Coaching Cycle, High Growth Enterprise Coaches:
- Encourage clients to reflect on their circumstances
- Use a diverse range of diagnostic tools and techniques
- Help clients to review current and past performance
- Help clients to analyse current and past performance
- Help clients to reflect on their experiences, feelings, knowledge and skills
- Encourage clients to explore issues and problems
- Encourage clients to examine the root cause of issues and problems
- Support clients to draw their own conclusions about the root cause of issues and problems
- Enable clients to reflect on their conclusions
- Confirm understanding of client conclusions before moving on (by summarising or asking questions)
During the visioning stage of the High Growth Enterprise Coaching Cycle, High Growth Enterprise Coaches:
- Encourage clients to explore their beliefs and feeling about the subject of the coaching
- Help clients to develop a clear understanding of what they want to achieve
- Help clients to envisage and to define what success looks like
- Encourage clients to explain why it is important they are successful
- Support clients to define clear goals and objectives
- Help clients to identify potential resources they can use to achieve success
- Help clients to identify potential barriers and risks to achieving success
- Help clients to explore options for overcoming any barriers
- Support clients to identify options and solutions
- Confirm understanding of identified options and solutions before moving on
During the implementation stage of the High Growth Enterprise Coaching Cycle, High Growth Enterprise Coaches:
- Ask clients to summarise their goals and objectives
- Support clients to assess all of the options and solutions to achieve success
- Support clients to reflect on the merits of each potential solution
- Enable clients to select one or more options to achieve success
- Help clients to define actions needed to implement their chosen option
- Help clients to identify additional resources needed to achieve success
- Encourage clients to identify actions they will take to secure required resources
- Assist clients to draft action plans to achieve success
- Challenge clients to validate plans and commitment to implementation
- Confirm understanding of plans before moving on
During the reviewing and sustaining stage of the High Growth Enterprise Coaching Cycle, High Growth Enterprise Coaches:
- Invite clients to reflect on progress achieved
- Encourage clients to reflect on their vision (goals and objectives)
- Encourage clients to reflect on why it is important they are successful
- Summarise key points and actions arising during coaching
- Acknowledge progress made by clients
- Agree with clients strategies to monitor the implementation of the plan
- Test client commitment to sustaining improvements and performance
- Confirm the client ownership of plans and activities
- Seek feedback from clients to identify the added value derived from coaching
- Agree with clients the timing of future coaching
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