Topic > Listening Skills: Written Assignment: Interpersonal Skills

“Coaching is an individual, mutually designed, facilitative relationship between a professional coach and a key employee who has a position of power in the organization…” (2) Although coaching occurs most often among these, each position is important and “powerful”. Attributing this value is essential to being a good coach. Can you train someone or would you rather not have this burden? Training is intentional and supportive. A coach doesn't just teach, a coach trains and directs a person in the most effective direction. Sometimes it's one on one and other times you find yourself coaching a team. It involves encouragement and affirmations, corrections, rebukes, and equipping oneself without discouragement. Coaching is a verb, it's what you do more than what you say. “The focus of coaching is usually on performance or organizational development, but it may also serve a personal component.”