Is there a difference? Of course there is! It is a small step towards a new reality.

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From this personal experience, I would like to highlight that Coaching is a process that requires discipline from both the coach and the coachee - terms that we will explain later. It is a training that fosters self-knowledge and helps us improve competencies, develop skills, and grow from our capabilities.

Depending on the area where you work, we can talk about Personal Coaching specialties. It focuses on life projects and is concerned with the well-being of the person:

Business : Works in organizations and companies and focuses on promoting teamwork, communication, and conflict resolution.
Executive : Aimed at senior executives, it works on the leadership and performance skills of staff.
Sports : Works on the athlete's potential, their empowerment and leadership skills.
Educational : Focused on developing the members of the educational system. Its purpose is to seek to improve individual performance, so that students enhance their skills without limiting their potential and creativity.
Any of these specialties are directed by a coach, a “trainer,” a professional who has been trained by accredited entities and who teaches techniques that help human beings achieve the goals they want to achieve.

Through these specialized techniques, the coach mirrors the coachee - the person who is the subject and object of a coaching action - in his or her own inconsistencies and doubts, in the turkey phone data same way that he or she also projects in that mirror what is a talent or resource for that person, thus enabling the identification of his or her strengths, and accompanies him or her in the discovery of his or her identity in such a way that he or she takes responsibility for his or her current and future state.

The Coaching process is developed between the coach and the coachee following a specific methodology divided into several phases:

Context generation: In this first phase the coachee determines the objective to be achieved.

Current situation: After creating trust between the coach and the coachee, the client's real situation is tested. That is, if what the coachee tells the coach is the same as what he transmits to him and, if applicable, to determine the coachee's real situation.

Future situation: What is the objective that the coachee wants to work on?

Feedback: Coach and coachee communicate transparently about how the process is evolving and how they feel.

Action plan: once the objective is clear, it must be put into practice. How? The coach, through action plans, helps the client to achieve it; for example, by following an agenda to manage time well, breathing exercises to improve self-control, etc.

Monitoring: Once the objective has been achieved, it is necessary to monitor its status to check whether or not the coachee has deviated from the path established in the action plan phase.

A coaching process can last from 1 to 12 sessions maximum, during which commitment and constant work on the part of the coachee is essential to achieve the desired objectives, as well as total professionalism on the part of the coach to achieve the maximum degree of communication and trust with his client.


Coaching is definitely here to stay and to be part of any personal enrichment and growth in all the vital aspects I mentioned before. There is a mistaken belief that Coaching is an interaction between coach and coachee limited to the personal field. This incomplete vision of Coaching is now totally obsolete from the moment that institutional, business, group and entity fields of all kinds can be the focus and object of actions by accredited Coaching professionals. Here to stay, as the original coaches of Oxford University would say in the 19th century.

Carol Juárez, ICF Certified Coach