Resources & Tools for Coaching

Keywords:coaching, history of coaching, development of coaching, sources of coaching, coaching in Ukraine.
Abstract. Over the past twenty years, the post-Soviet countries have accumulated a significant layer of misconceptions and distortions about the history, practice, and worldview, scientific and methodological fundamentals of coaching. The consequences of this are the dissemination of data in scientific publications misinterpreting the essence, goals and objectives of coaching. The primary purpose of the research is to identify scientifically reliable and substantiated data on methodological sources and the history of coaching in the world and in Ukraine. The scientific methods of cognition were used in the academic paper, namely: critical analysis of literature, statistical information and expert publications on development of coaching, synthesis of information, grouping, comparison, chronology, as well as methods of induction and deduction…

The purpose of the research is to substantiate the theoretical and methodological fundamentals and to identify the problems of implementing coaching technologies in the practice of education. The methodological basis of the research consists of the following methods of economic analysis, namely: observation and system analysis, process approach method, comparative analysis and synthesis, functional-system approach, graphical and tabular methods. Based on the results of the research conducted, it has made itpossible to establish that coaching technologies are an effective innovative tool for modernization of the modern education system. They contribute to improving the quality of the educational process due to their ability to develop the education seekers’ skills of self-study, setting goals and achieving them, to increase the level of educational motivation and to ensure successful socialization. The most used methods of coaching have been identified, including as follows: the case study method, the method of emotional stimulation, the discussion method, the mosaic method, the perspective shifting method and the project method.

This article is informed by an article that I for the Mann Report that I wrote in 2011 entitled “Coached or Be Coached.” In revisiting the article, I discovered that its orientation is even more relevant in the contemporary coaching environment than when it was written. Coaching has grown exponentially in the past decade, resulting in multiple professional coaching categories. Blackbyrn (2020) indicates that there are “11 Types of Coaching. What Kind of Coach Can You Be?” Increasingly, coaching appears to be an attractive occupational choice; As such, …