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Can your best friend be your coach?

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The word “coaching” literally means to transport someone from one place to another.  People use coaching to help them move forward and/or to create some kind of change.

A Coaching Conversation is a highly specialized conversation (or series of conversations) one person has with another.  The person who is the coach intends to produce a conversation that will benefit the other person, the client, in a way that relates to the clients learning, self-development and progress.  

How does this conversation differ from the one we have with our best friends over the garden wall, a cup of tea or a beer in the pub?  Continue reading