<aside> 📌 Key Ideas

Not every organization or community is ready for coaching. A readiness assessment is the first step in exploring coaching as a tool.
Weaving coaching into a culture takes time, it’s a change management exercise.
Leaders must buy into coaching.
No one organization or community is the same. Based on the readiness assessment your coaching framework will be adapted based on your staff’s experiences and your team’s culture, values, vision, and mission. </aside>

Contents

Overview

Terminology note: Throughout this WIKI the term coachee (coach-EE (like fleece or tree) is used to describe the person/people or team being coached. A coachee can be an individual staff, partner, client, or customer. See the coaching glossary for more terms and definitions.

Purpose

Why Non-Directive Coaching?

What is Non-Directive Coaching?

Non-Directive Coaching in 1 minute

How does non-directive coaching compare?

1. Scoping

Scoping is about setting the constraints of the coaching relationship. It relies on creating mutualism through two aspects, the major aspect and the minor aspect. During scoping the non-directive coach and the coachee are establishing the context and boundaries of the relationship from which symbiosis can emerge. The major aspect takes place mostly at the beginning of the relationship but can be revisited at any time while the minor aspect takes place during each interaction.

2. Sensing

Sensing involves listening actively and empathizing with the coachee to support them in gaining a deeper understanding of their viewpoint and emotions. This is done by asking them open-ended questions as a non-directive way of helping them to see their situation in an alternate way which often leads the coachee to discover more options. During this phase, the coach wants to be curious and holistic.