What is Coaching?
Escuela Europea de Coaching
International Coach Federation (ICF)
¿Qué es el coaching? El coaching se basa en el respeto al otro como legítimo otro, dejando espacio para que el otro sea como es. Coaching es entrenamiento en habilidades de comunicación y de liderazgo que fomentan el autoconocimiento y el contacto de la persona con su entorno.
Our starting point is to interpret people as linguistic beings, who create themselves through language.
Principios y Fundamentos del Coaching
No one is in truthful
possession
The same reality can be observed from different points of view and arrive at different, but equally legitimate, interpretations and therefore conclusions.
People act to the best of their ability
Coaching enables the discovery of new ways of doing things by changing limiting beliefs.
Every person carries a talent that is waiting to be revealed
The human being is complete, lacks nothing. Inside you there is a huge potential waiting to be released. Coaching facilitates this release. The coachee is autonomous: he/she is the one who decides, chooses and ultimately resolves.
People can change
Facts cannot be changed, but the interpretation of facts can: we can choose the interpretations we give them. Everything that is not genetic can be changed.
Confidentiality
Nothing the coachee says transcends outside the coaching sessionsand that safe environment.
Being / Doing
Coaching differentiates what we DO from what we ARE. It argues that we are so much more than what we do and that we can choose who we BE.
Roles in Coaching
Coach
Professional who partners with clients in their personal and professional development. A coach is sort of a taxi driver: the client decides where to get and the coach accompanies by listening, asking questions, fostering new perspectives, a broader vision and new possibilities for actions to obtain different results. This learning process is called Observer Shift. A coach does not do therapy, does not give advice, does not tell the client what to do.
Coachee
It is the coaching client and the main character of the coaching relationship and process. The client sets the goal to be achieved.
Coaching tools
01. The question
A good question, a powerful question challenges our perceived reality and makes us aware of things that, although they were already there, we were not able to see.
When we ask questions as coaches, when we put our questions at the service of our client, our questions are not intended to solve the riddle, they are not to find a solution or our solution or THE solution.. As coaches we ask from humility, from ignorance, from genuine curiosity that goes beyond our mental schema and that takes us to live in the mental map of the coaching client.
The coach brings a "know-how". so that from a good level of listening, powerful questions are generated, which are not rhetorical, interpretative or standard. Questions containing the client's language,
that do not contain judgements, nor implicit solutionswhich are openwho ask for the what and the what for, rather than the why or the whowhich are questions addressed to the observer that the coachee is being. Questions that make you uncomfortable (gently) and that they go towards the future, towards the possibility, towards the challenge, not towards the past..
So and here, yes, as a coach, the coach facilitates the client in practising the art of asking questions until it becomes a habit. This habit will result in the way they reflect, incorporating learnings, stimulating a different and perhaps richer way of thinking, new distinctions in their vocabulary, a different approach that provokes new actions and with them extraordinary results.
Montse Sans, PCC Coach and Coordinator of EEC Comunidad Valenciana.
02. Coaching distinctions
In coaching, a distinction is the ability to see and understand a new or different nuance related to a concept or attitude. The result of looking at reality differently enables one to act differently.
What the distinction does is to increase the level of awareness, about what we do, why we do it, what we do it for, and it is then that we get a different capacity for action.
Below you can discover some of the awards most commonly used in coaching, explained by several of our coaches and trainers, but remember that there are as many distinctions in coaching as there are observers.
Coaching process
It consists of coaching sessions (meetings or interviews) between the coach and the client. The duration of a coaching process is fixed before the start of the process and depends on the challenge to be met. A coaching process usually consists of 6 to 10 sessions over a period of about six months.
Coaching session
This is each of the meetings between coach and client. It lasts approximately 90 minutes. During this time, the coach will try to change the coachee's viewpoint, that is, to broaden his or her view of reality and discover new possibilities for action.
- A temporal process with a beginning and end
- Between two people: coach and coachee
- In search of an objective and a declared challenge
- Based on planned, private and confidential conversations (language, emotion and body).
- Using questioning methodology to explore beliefs, values, strengths and limitations
- Coachee makes decisions and engages in learning and change
- With this commitment, it is mobilized in a certain direction, deploying its full potential to achieve extraordinary results.
ICF Coach Competencies
At the EEC we follow the guidelines set out by the International Coach Federation (ICF), for which there are 8
competencias clave o fundamentos para el ejercicio profesional del coaching.
Establish
FOUNDATIONS
1. DEMONSTRATES ETHICAL PRACTICE
Understands and consistently applies coaching ethics and standards.
2. REPRESENTS THE COACHING MENTALITY
Develops and maintains an open, curious, flexible and focussed mindset.
Create the RELATIONSHIP
3. ESTABLISHES AND MAINTAINS AGREEMENTS
Collaborates to create clear agreements about the coaching relationship, process, plans and goals. Establishes agreements for the process and for each session.
4. CULTIVATE CONFIDENCE AND SECURITY
Partners with the client to create a safe and supportive environment. Maintains a relationship of respect and trust.
5. MAINTAINS PRESENCE
Is fully aware and present with the client.
Communicate EFFECTIVELY
6. ACTIVELY LISTENS
Focuses on what clients say and do not say, to fully understand what they communicate and to support them to fully express themselves.
7. EVOKES AWARENESS
Facilitates discovery and learning by using tools and techniques such as powerful questions, silences, metaphors or analogies.
Cultivates LEARNING and GROWTH
8. FACILITATES THE GROWTH OF EACH CLIENT
Collaborates with the client to transform learning and discoveries into action. Promotes client autonomy in the coaching process.
ICF Coach CREDENTIALS
ACC, PCC and MCC Coach. The profile of a good coach is determined by their training and experience. The minimum requirements that ICF demands to qualify for its three levels of accreditation are:
- ACC (Associate Certified Coach): 60 hours of specific training. 10 hours with a mentor coach. 100 hours of experience. 8 clients. Oral and written exam.
- PCC (Professional Certified Coach): 125 hours of specific training. 10 hours with a mentor coach. 500 hours of experience. 25 clients. Oral and written exam.
- MCC (Master Certified Coach): 200 hours of specific training. 10 hours with a mentor coach. 2,500 hours of experience. 35 clients. Oral and written exam
The coach
de coach. Cómo ser coach
The Coaching Certification allows the professional to start a new profession as a coach and work with people and organizations providing the necessary tools to achieve their goals.
ICF Coach Competencies
- For professionals, Human Resources and Recruitment staff, team leaders. Necessary management tools for leadership, listening, conflict management and the distinctions of coaching for direct work with people and teams within organizations.
- For teachers and trainers. New skills in managing teams or students so that they can develop their full potential. Listening skills, development, conflict management.
- For psychologists. A complement to the psychology training to be used in your processes.
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
Me interesa el coaching, pero no sé si quiero ser coach
Incorporar habilidades de coaching implica una experiencia personal, pues no sólo se realiza un aprendizaje conceptual sino vivencial.
In our Executive Coaching Certification Program, participants include executives, members of Human Resources departments, and senior managers who want to incorporate coaching tools to be more effective professionally, as well as all types of professionals (consultants, psychologists, etc.) who see coaching as a valuable tool in their personal and professional development.
¿En cuánto tiempo se aprende coaching?
Si estás interesado en ser coach profesional homologado por ICF a nivel internacional, has de cursar el Programa de Certificación en Coaching Ejecutivo que dura, en total, un mínimo de seis meses (229 horas*).
En un mes (46 horas*), lo que dura el Ciclo I, puedes empaparte de las bases de esta disciplina. En cinco meses más (183 horas*), con el Ciclo II, profundizarás en todos los conceptos y competencias necesarios para ejercer como coach, y te certificarás en un Programa reconocido con un título homologado internacionalmente.
Si estás interesado en desarrollar habilidades de liderazgo y de comunicación e incorporar algunas de las competencias del coach puedes realizar únicamente el primer ciclo del Programa de certificación en coaching ejecutivo.
¿Qué requisitos son necesarios para ser coach?
Es imprescindible ser licenciado y contar con experiencia profesional mínima de tres años. Además, en la EEC consideramos que para ser coach es esencial tener un genuino interés por las personas.
¿Qué ventajas tiene formarse con la EEC?
- All our classroom trainers are at the same time active in-house coaches with extensive experience in executive coaching.
- Nuestra formación se nutre de la experiencia real en coaching en el ámbito empresarial.
- Los programas han sido diseñados desde una sólida base teórica del coaching y la experiencia contrastada en el terreno.
- Hemos formado a más de 15.000 profesionales. Nuestros programas tienen una eficacia contrastada de 15 años.
- Our programs are adapted to the learning pace of the participant and each client needs.
- Contamos con la máxima homologación que otorga la Federación Internacional de Coaching (ICF, por sus siglas en inglés).
- Ofrecemos un abanico de programas que abarca la formación integral de un coach profesional.
- Dispondrás de actividades y servicios después de formarte con EEC Alumni.
¿Hay ventajas para los antiguos alumnos de la EEC?
Las personas que pasan por las aulas de EEC tienen a su disposición EEC Alumni, que ofrece actividades formativas, servicios de valor añadido y recursos de calidad para dar respuesta a las inquietudes y necesidades de los alumnos coaches.
¿Cuál es el perfil de los alumnos? ¿Y de los profesores?
Los alumnos son, en su gran mayoría, profesionales de los Recursos Humanos, directivos y ejecutivos de otras áreas que desean reforzar sus habilidades de liderazgo y de gestión de personas, consultores, cazatalentos, psicólogos y profesionales que desean desarrollarse y/o darle un giro a su trayectoria profesional. Todos nuestros formadores son coaches profesionales en activo certificados por la EEC y acreditados, en su gran mayoría, como PCC por ICF.
¿Qué importancia tienen las homologaciones?
Las homologaciones son la representación del estándar de calidad, la confirmación de una oferta rigurosa y exquisita. En la EEC seguimos las guías marcadas por la Federación Internacional de Coaching (ICF, en sus siglas en inglés).
¿Qué incluye el precio? ¿Cómo puedo inscribirme?
El precio de todos los programas incluye el material didáctico (textos, lecturas, hojas de ejercicios) necesario para seguir la formación. Para conocer los precios de los programas, por favor, ponte en contacto con nosotros. Es imprescindible rellenar una ficha de inscripción. Puedes solicitárnosla enviando un correo electrónico a la dirección info@escuelacoaching.com indicando la ciudad donde deseas formarte y el nombre del programa que desees cursar.
Pasos después de la certificación en coaching.
Una vez formado como coach, empieza la aventura. Como en cualquier otra profesión, se inicia un camino de prácticas, de especialización y de formación continua. Para ello, la EEC cuenta con programas para coaches en ejercicio (Supervisión de coaching, Coaching de equipos, Coaching y Política…). Además, EEC Alumni constituye una comunidad de aprendizaje permanente al servicio de todos los alumnos formados por la EEC.
¿Necesita coaching mi plantilla/equipo?
Los momentos de cambio, de fusiones, de reestructuraciones son los momentos donde la intervención de coaching encuentra un mayor sentido. Tanto el equipo directivo como el conjunto de colaboradores pueden verse impulsados al incorporar habilidades de coaching como: adaptación al cambio más rápida, capacidad para ponerse en el lugar del otro, mejora en la escucha.
¿Cómo contrato un proyecto de EEC para mi empresa?
Puedes ponerte en contacto con nosotros y comentarnos cuáles son las necesidades que tiene tu organización para valorar si lo que ofrecemos en EEC se ajusta a vuestras necesidades. Además, puedes consultar algunos de los servicios de Consultoría Estratégica puedes ver aquí. A partir de ahí, nos comprometemos con ajustarnos a tus particularidades y necesidades concretas. Déjanos colaborar contigo para alcanzar los resultados extraordinarios.