> Coaching Glossary

A

Assessment

A measurement of your performance, knowledge, and other qualities.   Life coaching starts with where you are.

Awareness Training

Training yourself to benefit from your life coaching sessions.

C

Career Coach

A coach who specialises in working with you to get the most from your chosen career or helps you find the career you desire.

Coach
A person who will give you honest feedback and support and inspiration. A coach helps you to change.

Cognitive
The mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning.

Counseling
A Life or Career Coach is not a counsellor, a counsellor tends to deal with emotional problems and usually deals with the past. A coach looks at the future and helps you overcome any obstacles that stand in the way of you reaching your goals.

D

Development
Life Coaching is all about the development of yourself and your life in every aspect from career to family and all that you wish to have in your life.

E

Evaluation
In life coaching this is about seeing what your strengths are and where there are opportunities to improve.

F

Facilitator
Someone who makes it easier for a person to change.

Feedback
Another word I’m not keen on but it has its benefits as short hand for what you are currently doing/where you are going. A Life Coach will offer you this ‘feedback’ in a dispassionate way.

Intervention
Mediation.

L

Lifelong Learning

Another phrase which means little. You learn every day don’t you?

M

Mentor
Someone who has been there and done that. Well worth finding your own for certain parts of your life.

Model
Pick someone you admire and take from them what you believe are their best practices.

Module
A stand-alone instructional unit that is designed to satisfy one or more learning objectives. A separate component complete within itself that can be taught, measured, and evaluated for a change or even bypassed as a whole. A module consists of one or more lessons.

N

Needs Analysis
Another phrase to run away from very fast. What do you want?

Needs Assessment
Run away from this phrase screaming. What are you doing now and what do you want to do next?

P

Performance Analysis
Another pompous phrase for something simple. How are you/we doing?

Strategic Planning
You won’t need this for your life, perhaps for a small business.

T

Team Development
Make better teams.

Trainer
Someone who trains.

Training
What you do to improve your life and your career.