Primary Difference Between Direct Advice And Coaching
The primary difference between giving direct advice and helping your client to develop options lies in the coaching/teaching model at the heart of life coaching; direct advice is fundamentally directive, whereas helping the client develop options is facilitative, in that it is focused on empowering the client to learn new tools for living more creatively and authentically. In this way, the coach â€oeholds the client's hand― during the coaching process, but then once the coaching is over, the client remains able to implement the skills he/she learned. Direct advice alone would mean that the client remained dependent on the coach – something that could not be seen as