The coaching process

Effective coaching is a process of continuous application and review of your experiences and performance. A good coach does not simply turn up on the day and produce a generic coaches guide session. Your next session starts when your previous session finishes. A effective review of your session can highlight factors you feel are weak points of your session ,  allowing you to make changes for the following week. Failure to make these changes results in you constantly producing the same results that are often not up to standard. Making the same mistakes over and over again.

Many teams and coaches suffer from this as a result of time and tradition. Coaches were coached in a certain way themselves , they then simply reproduced the sessions they were taught again and again without ever making changes or adapting the session based on the participants. This goes on for years and because they have done it for years they feel it cant be wrong.

The coaching process in a basic view consist of Plan , Do , review.

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This is a simple representation of the review process in coaching , however it is a constant process of this rather than a one off action and the process can be seen to be a consistent circle of this constant reflection.

According to Gilbert and Trudel (2001) reflective practice is an integral part of effective coaching.