The Berkeley Centre - Performance Coaching

Performance Coaching

What is Coaching?

Coaches can act in a number of ways – as a sounding board, as a guide, as a person you can confide in, someone who will help you through difficult times and confirm you in the good times. Hopefully they can give you wise counsel and expand your options and choices for action. They rarely, if ever, give advice and will ensure that it is you who stays in control of the conversation.

Most coaches operate from one or a few key principles taken from their approach in training. There are different schools of practice, though they share common approaches. Your coach should make it clear the principles and values that lie at the heart of their practice, working with you to ensure that you are both clear as to the nature of the ‘coaching contract’.

Coaches work with people who are already operating effectively in the world and assume that you have the resources you need. They will use dialogue or focused conversation to help you become ever more effective and assist you navigate through change and/or solve problems or deal with challenges that face you. Coaches use questions and give feedback and can be pretty challenging at times. A good coach will not let you off the hook and insist that you follow through on agreed actions and commitments.

What is Coaching Not.

Coaching is not teaching, training or telling or playing an expert in some specific knowledge domain.

Coaching is not therapy, which focuses on problems and their sources and the symptoms that arise from these problems.

Performance Coaching

In all organisations performance is an issue – either with regard to always striving to do better or to keeping up performance in difficult times. Invariably we all suffer dips in performance at certain times – for example in change, or when circumstances in our lives are suboptimal. Performance coaching has its roots in sport where typically high performance athletes always have a coach who is helping them with attitude, psychology and technical matters in order to win. These principles have been adapted for the work place and can be applied at any level from the new graduate, to people who have just taken over or are about to take over new roles, or those who want to reach a new level. Most coaching addresses issues of performance; however in performance coaching the whole focus is on performance and the actions needed to improve it.

Daniel Doherty

Daniel has over 30 years of experience of strategy and organisation development consulting and executive coaching to blue chip corporations across a wide diversity of countries and cultures.

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Paul Burden

Paul Burden assists people to break through boundaries, unleash potential and achieve outstanding goals. His specialist area is Personal Performance in both Sport and Business. He swiftly enables the results you want by assisting you to rapidly create key behaviours and internal resources and eliminate limiting factors…

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