The Compass Coaching Model

Just back from a few days away in the south of Portugal. This compass is to be found in the fishing village of Olhão. In The Compass Coaching Model I have designed for coaches and clients south refers to ‘Aligning Your Focus,’ what is it that you want to get out of a coaching process or any individual coaching session, whereas north refers to ‘Anchoring Your Purpose’. The important questions to be asking can be 

• ‘What do you want to focus on for this coaching process or in this particular coaching conversation?’ 
• ‘How is that important to you and for you?’
  
• ‘How is your goal or outcome relevant to your overarching vision for your organisation/department/team/professional or personal life?’

These perspectives are the two most important elements of The Compass Coaching Model and helps clients to align what they want with what’s important, how their short term destination links to the overall direction and where they see their north star pointing to.

I have designed ‘The Compass Coaching Model’ as both an innovative, cutting-edge model for a coaching conversation and a practical framework for a longer-term over-arching coaching process.

The model 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.

I have designed the model to provide coaches and their clients a greater sense of direction and purpose. It will also support coach creativity, enable coaches to have more flexibility and freedom in how they work with their clients and empower them to get even better results during, between and after their coaching sessions.