Coaching: four levels

  Skills Performance Developmental Transformational
Origin

Sports Competency based
Assessment/
Psychology		 Counselling
Psychotherapy		 Religious/ Spiritual
Personal Growth
Psychological
Approaches

 Sport
Psychology
NLP
Inner Game		 Cognitive
Behavioural
NLP
Hypnotherapy

 Gestalt,
Psychoanalysis
Rogerian personcentred		 Jungian analysis
Existentialism
Psychosynthesis
Process
Timeframe
Depends on skill
and the
standard		 Short term & specific Medium term & broad Life time & unknown
Orientation Present - Future Present - Future Past – Present Present
Focus of
activity

Acquisition of
specific Skills.		 Goal orientated
Solution focused
Business objectives –
corporate priority		 Person centred
Personality focused
Personal objectives		 Reason for
existing/ living/ being
Nature of existence
Spiritual/ Transpersonal
Change Behaviour Behaviour focused Values and Attitudes Core Beliefs
Mode

Behavioural
Practical
Functional		 Rational/ Cognitive/
Behavioural		 Emotional/Physical Spiritual
Religious
Coaching
Session
practice



 Focus on
specific
component that
is to be
practiced		 Focus on what the
goals and outcomes
for the session are		 Focus on how the
coachee is doing,
feeling in relationship		 Totally emergent –
whatever is figural at the
moment
People
Learning




 From others
Practising
How can I do it
better?
Single loop
 Doing
What am I doing?
How can I do it better?
Single loop		 Doing & Reflecting
Who am I doing it?
How can I be a better person?
Double loop		 Being
Why am I doing it – what’s the point?
How can I live better?
Triple loop
Self
Self in relation to skill acquisition Self in relation to task Self in relation to others Self in relation to ‘god’
Work focus

Coachee –
specific skill		 Coachee – task Coach – Coachee
relationship		 Coachee – ‘god’ relationship
Output
Motivation To be the best
at the skill		 Doing better next
time
Ambition
Competence		 Managing psychological
blocks and drivers		 Letting go
Free of achieving, striving
Goal Action Knowledge Experience Wisdom
Driven by
Mastery of a skill Achievement -
Targets		 Personal Growth Nothing – Non-action
Aiming for
Ability to master
as specific
activity		 Clarity, focus and
certainty		 Clarity out of ambiguity
Direction from
uncertainty		 Accepting
ambiguity/ complexity
Uncertainty as a given
Measurement
of success

Standard of
achievement		 Behavioural – task
completion		 Job satisfaction and self
worth		 Sense of well being

With permission from John Leary-Joyce, AEC.
© Copyright John Leary-Joyce, AEC

Ana was able to help me explore my approach to difficult conversations, finding what worked and what doesn’t. As a result, I was able to navigate some thorny people performance challenges, and now have a much more effective team.
— Head of Senior HR team

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Karakusevic

Ana is an MSc-trained learning consultant, specialising in change, communication and leadership consultancy, but her main passion lies in one-to-one and team coaching.  With a strong grounding in psychology, cognitive science and philosophy, Ana brings a range of analytical and creative approaches, combining rational and emotional, Buddhist mindfulness and Western systems thinking, creativity and accountability, individual focus and community orientation.

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