Coaching

Coaching is a one-to-one relationship where the coach and coachee work together to identify and achieve beneficial developmental goals. Coaching psychology is an emerging or protoscientific psychological discipline with potential for contributing to health promotion, social change, and organizational development. Effective coaching is a mixture of pedagogy and principles of sciences, such as skill acquisition, sociology, and physiology, often referred to as the science of coaching. Coaching is assisting clients in setting and achieving goals, improving performance-related skills and knowledge, and focusing on specific goals with clear outcomes.

Example of a coach: 

Listens to your desire to try riding. Asks you if you need instructions on how to ride and asks where you might get them. Asks if you like the color/kind of bike you’re about to ride. May even help you pick the bike up and help you get on. Runs alongside the bike “checking in” to see if you’re enjoying the experience and asks what might make it more fun. Will help you discover what you need to take care of yourself when/if you fall. When you stop, the coach might ask about your experience and what was valuable, and whether or not you want to pursue mastery of bike riding. If you do, the coach asks you how you might devise a plan whereby you can attain that mastery. If you don’t, then the coach may ask you if you want to continue riding casually or if you want to devise a plan to sell the bike.

Therapists' personality traits are associated with therapeutic orientation and interpersonal skills. Therapists are individuals who provide treatment for mental health concerns like depression, substance use, and anxiety. A therapist is a trained person who establishes a professional relationship with a patient to treat emotional problems, promote positive personality growth, and mediate disturbed patterns of behavior.

Example of a mental health therapist: 

Discusses the basis for your fears about riding and the consequences of falling. Discusses if your

parents rode, and why that might be important. Explains why it is important for your self-esteem

or psyche, for you to learn this and be successful. Therapists are very useful to unwire

whatever baggage may be impeding your potential to ride.

A parent helps a child with health issues, and makes informed, unselfish decisions in the child's best interest, remaining at the child's side, showing the child that he/she is cherished, teaching the child to make good decisions, advocating for the child, and promoting the child's health. The meaning of "parent" in American law is increasingly broad, extending parental rights to others besides natural or adoptive parents. The transition to parenthood is the attainment of a new role or cultural identity, with parents and children becoming figurations within material-cultural practices.

Example of a parent: 

Buys bike for you. May put on training wheels, and take them off when they think you are

ready. Runs by the bike holding on until you have balance to continue, and then cheers you on

as you go off riding into the sunset. Occasionally will threaten to take away riding privileges if

you don’t comply with ground rules.

Mentors are experienced persons who provide support, encouragement, and guidance to help a mentee reach important life goals. Mentors are students who have been successful in specific courses and are facilitators who help students develop thinking and reasoning skills, gain a better understanding of course material, and serve as supportive friends. Mentoring is a personal-professional relationship, an organizational, cultural, and global context, and a systemic reform strategy that builds human capacity.

Example of a mentor: 

Shares with you their experience/expertise of bike riding. Gives you tips on “drafting” and the

most effective way they’ve found to ride. Models the way they think you should ride, gives you

strategies about things like changing tires quickly in a race, how to get the most speed for your

effort, what the best bike is to buy in their opinion, and how to negotiate gravel at the bottom

of a hill. Teaches you their version of proper maintenance, warns you of dangers of riding in

traffic and tells you how to avoid them. Sometimes holds an “I know better than you since I’ve

been there before, so you’d better listen to me” hierarchical position.

Consultants are individuals who provide assistance with education problems, provide specific information, and help people see and work through their problems. A consultant is a person who gives professional advice or services; an expert. A good research consultant combines statistical and research skills with resourcefulness, communication, and interpersonal skills to devise solutions to research problems. Consultants are outside advisers who help executives and organizations improve effectiveness by providing information and developing solutions.

Example of a consultant: 

Studies the mechanics of riding the bike. Teaches you the laws of physics, how the bike is

propelled, what is necessary for balance, and laws of motion/propulsion. A consultant tells you

where to sit and where to put your feet and when to pedal. They may even offer or suggest a

training program to upgrade your bike. Then he/she leaves. Consultants are necessary experts.

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