Cultivating Learning and Growth Domain, Competency 8: Facilitates Client Growth

This final competency sits under the domain of Cultivating Learning and Growth and epitomizes the overarching function and purpose of the coaching process. The specific use of the words learning and growth immediately tells us that coaching is not just about solving a problem, working on an issue, reaching a goal, or addressing a challenge. It is about much more than that. On one level, it is about using the coaching process to work with what the client brings into the session in order to establish specific, positive, and forward-moving outcomes. On another level, coaching focuses on how the client can nurture and fully leverage their experience of addressing their topic in a way that maximizes their personal and professional potential in a much broader sense. In this way, coaching most definitely has a micro and macro level of focus in many ways. This competency is described in Box 13.1.