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Is there a difference between coaching and teaching?

Trevor Emdon
Trevor Emdon

Coaching differs from teaching in that coaching focuses on enabling someone to find their own inner resources and answers, rather than imparting specific information. Teaching provides a method that can be learned and applied, while coaching addresses questions without clear pathways by encouraging flow, trust, and asking for help. When asked for advice, a coach frees others to become more themselves rather than trying to replicate a specific process or model.

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Is There A Difference Between Coaching & Teaching?
Coaching is NOT teaching - let's get clear about that. (Although it may sometimes include some teaching elements).
Teaching is imparting information to another in such a way that they are able to learn it - i.e. remember and hopefully apply it. Think back to school or college for examples of teachers.
Coaching is enabling someone to 鍖nd and discover their own inner resources, answers, strengths and abilities. Coaches encourage and support and guide.
Teachers may well do that too, but fundamentally the goal of teaching is different to coaching.
The confusion arises because the student's question is often the same in both cases - i.e. "How do you do X?"
If it's, "How do you build a chicken coop?" or "How do you play 3 Steps To Heaven on a guitar?" then a teacher is 鍖ne. Step by step, chord by chord ... there's a method that can be learned and copied and therefore taught.
But the question has a different meaning for coaches.
When I was 鍖rst asked how I was making money from my websites, my brain went into a spin because - step by step - I didn't know! It had kind of happened organically and then I had to "reverse engineer" what I'd done to see if I could teach it.
I tried - and most of my early students got nowhere.
Because step by step wasn't the answer.
The true answer was more to do with, "I let my ideas 鍖ow. I trust my instincts. I dare to ask for help ..."
And there's NO clear pathway.
Just FLOW TRUST ASK.
(Rinse and repeat!)
So now, when someone asks me how I make money online, if they want my coaching I free them to become more of themselves. I show them where their personal power lies. I enable change, but I never try to create a clone or cookie- cutter version of what I've done.
Because ultimately, that would just be TEACHING them to try to be me!
And neither of us would want that!
Hope that helps.

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Is there a difference between coaching and teaching?

  • 1. Is There A Difference Between Coaching & Teaching?
  • 2. Coaching is NOT teaching - let's get clear about that. (Although it may sometimes include some teaching elements).
  • 3. Teaching is imparting information to another in such a way that they are able to learn it - i.e. remember and hopefully apply it. Think back to school or college for examples of teachers.
  • 4. Coaching is enabling someone to 鍖nd and discover their own inner resources, answers, strengths and abilities. Coaches encourage and support and guide.
  • 5. Teachers may well do that too, but fundamentally the goal of teaching is different to coaching.
  • 6. The confusion arises because the student's question is often the same in both cases - i.e. "How do you do X?"
  • 7. If it's, "How do you build a chicken coop?" or "How do you play 3 Steps To Heaven on a guitar?" then a teacher is 鍖ne. Step by step, chord by chord ... there's a method that can be learned and copied and therefore taught.
  • 8. But the question has a different meaning for coaches.
  • 9. When I was 鍖rst asked how I was making money from my websites, my brain went into a spin because - step by step - I didn't know! It had kind of happened organically and then I had to "reverse engineer" what I'd done to see if I could teach it.
  • 10. I tried - and most of my early students got nowhere.
  • 11. Because step by step wasn't the answer.
  • 12. The true answer was more to do with, "I let my ideas 鍖ow. I trust my instincts. I dare to ask for help ..."
  • 13. And there's NO clear pathway.
  • 14. Just FLOW TRUST ASK.
  • 16. So now, when someone asks me how I make money online, if they want my coaching I free them to become more of themselves. I show them where their personal power lies. I enable change, but I never try to create a clone or cookie- cutter version of what I've done.
  • 17. Because ultimately, that would just be TEACHING them to try to be me!
  • 18. And neither of us would want that!