If you google ‘Coaching Models’, you will find numerous models developed by coaches with different backgrounds, coaching styles and methods. They all play a crucial role in guiding the coaching process, enhancing understanding and communication, promoting skill development, ensuring consistency and quality, and supporting continuous improvement in coaching practice. What is important, in my view, is creating a unique coaching model that represents our brand, and embodies who we are as a coach.
A coaching model is essentially a structure approach and framework for us to follow during coaching sessions. This is not to say we always follow the same steps in every coaching session because a coaching model should be agile and we should always stay present during coaching sessions to adapt or tweak our model to meet the unique needs and preferences of our coachee.
A coaching model also gives our coachee clarity in the approach and consistency in what to expect. It serves as a service agreement and often includes components for setting goals, assessing progress and evaluating outcomes. It is essentially the cirriculum of the coaching journey that we commit to our coachee.
