The Compass Coaching Model

What is the Compass Coaching Model?

What is the Compass Coaching Model?

‘The Compass Coaching Model’ is an innovative, cutting-edge model for a coaching conversation and a practical framework for a longer-term over-arching coaching process. It is is based around and framed with an easily memorable metaphor. It is a highly flexible and versatile 8-step process, with eight different coordinates where each coordinate is a stage in the process and where each stage brings a different perspective on the client’s challenge, goal or outcome.

The model was designed to provide both coaches and their clients a greater sense of direction and purpose in their work together. It supports coach creativity and enables coaches to have more flexibility and freedom in how they work with their clients. Moreover, this powerful coaching tool empowers coaching clients to get even better results during, between and after their coaching sessions.

What is the Value of the Model?

• The model supports coaches to set a direction for and navigate a coaching conversation.
• It’s flexible, organic & innovative.
• It brings structure and gives freedom to the coaching process.It’s provides for both form and flow.
• It unlocks both coach & client potential & creativity.

What is essential with The Compass Coaching Model?

• Having a clear direction & destination that can unfold as the process evolves.
• Letting the client & how the conversation unfolds guide you through the journey.
• It unlocks both coach & client potential & creativity.
• The Trust Three – Trusting the client, trusting the process, trusting yourself.

What is the purpose of the Model?

• It provides a model which can be made accessible to clients and that they can learn for themselves.
• It’s part of our role to make our clients as autonomous as possible – mantra – it’s the client who does the work!
• It is even more empowering for the client to know they have the tools they need.
• An insight into the model helps to make the client’s learning and change generative and not just remedial for the short-term.
• Ultimately, it enriches the lives of clients & their relationships with others.

Why use the Compass as a metaphor?

• The compass sits effectively within the metaphor of coaching as a journey or process of learning and change.
• The concept of the compass gives this journey a sense of purpose and a sense of direction.
• When we talk about our purpose we can think of Your True North – Compass!
• It’s not the destination, it’s about the direction you are going – destination can change and evolve based on where you are – reference point – True North!
• In whatever context we want to consider, when we get lost, it’s important to re-calibrate. We can use the compass to do that. Having the the compass gives you calibration skills, cognitive agility, behavioural flexibility etc.
• It’s the foundation for the Compass Coaching Model, a model based around and framed with an easily memorable concept and metaphor not just an acronym.

The Compass Coaching Model in Action‘ course is an ICF accredited 10-hour course of 8 hours of synchronous online learning and 2 asynchronous hours where coaches can explore how the model can be use to navigate a coaching conversation and act as a framework for a longer-term over-arching coaching process.

The course also shows and helps coaches to strengthen their awareness and get real time practice of both the ICF Core Coaching Competencies and the different ICF PCC markers and MCC BARS.

You can read more about when the next ‘The Compass Coaching Model in Action‘ course is