The 25 types of coaching (and their benefits)

Like it or not, we live in an incredibly competitive society that causes us to experience stress in any area of ​​our day-to-day life. Both at work and in our personal life, it is normal that many times we feel lost, with lack of motivation or without a guideline to achieve those dreams that we have proposed.

And it is precisely in this context that coaching is becoming an increasingly popular practice, but also more necessary. With the help of an experienced figure, the coach, we can receive the psychological and behavioral support we need to achieve, through this specific orientation, our personal or professional goals.

Coaching allows us to stimulate our motivation, creativity and responsibility through a method guided by a coach that generates the necessary conditions for us to find, by ourselves, the way forward. It is the push that many people need.

Now, are all coaching the same? No. Not much less. This discipline can be classified into different types according to the objective of the coaching and the method used. And in today's article, in addition to understanding what coaching is, we will see how it is classified.

What is coaching?

Coaching is a training method focused on personal and / or professional development in which, thanks to the support provided by a coach, trainer, coach or mentor, we receive psychological and behavioral help that we need to achieve specific goals in our life.

In a more technical way, coaching is defined as a dialogical and praxeological process, that is, a method based on learning with egalitarian dialogue (two people give arguments based on validity but not on power) and on the study of logic human, respectively.

The coach is not a person with more experience or wiser than the client, but someone trained to give directions and advice on a specific goal. It does not achieve the general development, but the specific one.

It is not an officially regulated activity, so there are many different disciplines and approaches within coaching and, as we will see, many different types within this form of training based on the following principles: no one has possession of the truth, people must act within their possibilities, we all have a talent, we can all change, confidentiality and difference between "being" and "doing".

How is coaching classified?

Once the elementary principles of coaching are understood, we are more than ready to see what types exist within this discipline. As we have said, coaching can be classified according to different parameters: purpose, methodology, number of participants, content ... Let's see, without further ado, the main types of coaching.

1. Executive coaching

Managerial coaching is one in which the coach transfers information, advice, judgments and experiences to the client in order for him to learn from what he hears.

2. Non-directive coaching

Non-directive coaching is one in which the coach does not seek to directly transfer information to the client, but to awaken the psychological mechanisms necessary for them to this learn by yourself.

3. Personal coaching

Personal coaching is one that is focused on development in the personal sphere, not so much in the professional one. The coach guides the session so that the client can grow as a person and achieve their personal goals.

4. Job coaching

Job coaching is one that is focused on development in the professional field, not so much in the personal one. The coach guides the session so that the client can grow in their work and achieve your work goals.

5. Individual coaching

Individual coaching is one in which the client is a single person. That is, the training takes place with a coach and a client, in a one-to-one relationship.

6. Group coaching

Group coaching, for its part, is one in which the client is a group. That is, the training takes place between a coach and a group of people more or less with whom he works as a group, without individualities.

7. Organizational coaching

Organizational coaching is one that is taught in the professional field, generally organized not by a person, but by the company itself. It is a job coaching focused on the objectives not of a client, but of a company.

8. Business coaching

Business coaching is a form of organizational coaching that is addressed to all members of a company with the aim of improving the work environment, increasing productivity, promoting teamwork and learning to manage time. A coaching focused on the objectives of a company.

9. Executive coaching

Executive coaching is a form of organizational coaching that targets senior positions in a company. It is a coaching aimed at senior executives and which aims to train them to run the company with solvency and promoting the necessary personal values.

10. Sports coaching

Sports coaching is one that is focused on stimulate motivation in the development of an athlete's potential or a team. It allows setting short, medium and long-term goals, finding empowerment and leadership paths and, in the event of injury, adopting a positive mindset for recovery.

11. Educational coaching

Educational coaching is one that is focused on stimulating motivation and achieving the academic goals that a student has set for himself. It is a way of guiding the study and its conception to maximize the results.

12. Functional coaching

Functional coaching is one that takes a very empirical approach, giving very clear guidelines and routes of action that have scientifically shown to give results. It is a way of giving practical solutions to the client, who seeks very concrete and measurable results.

13. Cognitive coaching

Cognitive coaching is one that does not take such an empirical approach, but rather exercises cognitive skills so that the client learns to guide himself. It does not give practical solutions, but it does stimulate a mentality that, undoubtedly, in certain cases, can help to achieve results.

14. Dating coaching

Dating coaching is one that is focused on the client becomes more self-confident on dating. The coach offers tips to boost self-esteem and guides to make dating an enriching experience for both parties.

15. Religious coaching

Religious coaching is one that is applied in movements linked to religion where the clients are the faithful. Its purpose is to guarantee their complete loyalty, although it is evident that, depending on what the organization wants to achieve, its morality is, to say the least, questionable.

16. Transformational coaching

Transformational coaching is one that, based on the principle that we all have a talent that is perhaps hidden, seeks that the client discover these skills that they did not know but that can help them to achieve their objectives.

17. Ontological coaching

Ontological coaching is one that has the objective of optimizing the language of the person in order to improve the way in which the client communicates. Seeks to achieve transcendental change through absolute control of verbal and non-verbal communication. Language, body and emotions. This is the trident of ontological coaching.

18. Essential coaching

Essential coaching is one that take a transpersonal approach, developing the deepest level of the customer. He is not looking only for results, but to completely change the conception that he has about himself.

19. Realistic coaching

Realistic coaching is one that does not have a commitment to the goal, but to the client. It is a form of non-directive coaching where what is mainly sought is not for the person to achieve their goal, but to really develop in it all the personal strategies necessary to grow.

20. Quantum coaching

Quantum coaching is one that argues that the principles of quantum mechanics can be applied to the world of personal development. According to quantum physics, every body is, simultaneously, in all its possible states.

This form of coaching says that the same can be applied to the human attitude, so that we can decide our own reality. Obviously, it lacks scientific sense (these principles only apply to subatomic particles, not a human being), but as a metaphor it is fine.

21. Coaching for leadership

Leadership coaching is one that is going to focus on, as its name suggests, the formation of leaders. Provides client guidance to develop the leadership skills necessary to properly lead their team.

22. Systemic coaching

Systemic coaching is one that, based on the premise that people are not isolated elements, offers customer orientation to improve their relationship with the environment, especially with regard to personal and work relationships.

23. Coercive coaching

Coercive coaching is the most aggressive of all and seeks, with high impact therapies, to increase (through negative stimuli) motivation and the feeling of belonging to a group. It is based on three premises: we are guilty of everything that happens to us, the reason does not matter (only the feelings) and what happens in the group stays in the group. It has been highly criticized and associated with sects.

24. NLP Coaching

NLP coaching or NeuroLinguistic Programming coaching is one in which how the person interprets reality is analyzed and offers advice to modify certain behaviors. The coach detects our subconscious patterns that make us act negatively and provides new patterns of behavior to silence these emotions.

25. Coaching with emotional intelligence

Coaching with emotional intelligence is one that is based on enhancing the socio-emotional detection and analysis skills of both one's own and others' emotions, one of the pillars of personal development.