Coaching Characteristics
Home » Coaching and Mentoring » Coaching CharacteristicsThe Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) lists characteristics of coaching for organisations that are generally agreed by most coaching professionals.
Coaching...
• consists of one-to-one developmental discussions.
• provides people with feedback on both their strengths and weaknesses.
• is aimed at specific issues/areas.
• is a relatively short-term activity, except in executive coaching, which tends to have a longer timeframe.
• is essentially a non-directive form of development.
• focuses on improving performance and developing/enhancing individuals skills.
• is used to address a wide range of issues.
• Coaching activities have both organisational and individual goals.
• assumes that the individual is psychologically healthy and does not require a clinical intervention.
• works on the premise that clients are self-aware, or can achieve self-awareness.
• is time-bounded.
• is a skilled activity
• Personal issues may be discussed but the emphasis is on performance on work.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. 
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. 
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. 
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
‘The greatest discovery of all time is that people can change their future by merely changing their attitude'. 
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Be the change that you want to see in the world. 
There is nothing so stable as change. 
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. 
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. 
Nothing endures but change. 
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. 
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. 
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. You can do anything you decide to do. 
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. 
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. 
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. 
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. 
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. 
Men make history and not the other way around... Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Harry S. Truman
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. 
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. 
Be the change that you want to see in the world. 
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. 
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. 
