What Is Coaching? – Ohio Fellowship

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Coaching is a discipline that has emerged in the last 20 years to help individuals and teams maximize their capacity. The coaching movement continues to expand in many professions, including among Christian leaders and churches. After observing the benefits of coaching when the coach comes from outside the organization, one major Christian parachurch ministry now encourages all of its staff to engage a trained coach.

Coaching is different from counseling, mentoring, supervising, advising, and consulting. The premise of coaching is that the best answers come from within the individual; the key task of coaching is asking the right questions to help an individual or group move forward in relation to the situation that they themselves have defined.

The relationship between the coach and client(s) is crucial. Mutual trust and transparency is vital. The coach’s role is to listen clearly, then ask those questions which guide the client towards understanding their situation and possible responses for themselves.

The coaching I conduct begins by asking those serving others to clarify what goal they would like to achieve or what problem they would like to solve. Then we partner together in a coaching sequence towards what they can do within the situation or themselves to accomplish that. Having conducted over 425 hours of contracted coaching as an Associate Certified Coach credentialed by the International Coaching Federation (https://coachfederation.org), I have also obtained a Certificate in Lifestyle and Wellness Coaching from Harvard Medical School’s Executive Education program and a Certificate in Emotionally Intelligent Leadership from the Weatherhead School of Management of Case Western University.

Questions? Coaching begins with listening …. to you. Feel free to reach out by calling 330-830-9223. I’d love to hear from you.