Coaching differs from psychotherapy in that the client does not present a complaint, but a goal and moves towards the desired result in a directed way — with the participation of the coach. And what exactly will this participation be like? British coach Maria Ilif-Wood suggests a conscious approach to the choice of work style and for this she creates, summarizing her 30 years of experience in consulting businessmen, a model of four approaches to consulting. The first, invisible coaching, involves maximum attention to what is happening and minimal intervention in it. The second, implicit coaching, is informing the interlocutor and non-directive recommendations. The third, explicit coaching is active participation, a story about how to solve the tasks. The fourth, visible coaching is specific instructions on what to do and how to do it. The examples show how the differences between these four approaches manifest themselves. Consciously developed, these skills can then turn into an unconscious skill, the coach’s professional intuition.
Pretext, 251 pp., 2015