Although coaching will result in the person being coached to learn something, that really is not the point of coaching. A coach is someone who deals with, helps and trains those who have already learned more than the basics of what they are involved in. The coach normally comes after the teacher has taught a person the basic grounding in a sport or subject and the coach is there to help them achieve their goals or become better at what they are doing.
A coach is different from a teacher or even a counselor in that they get people to excel in helping them with goal setting, encouragement and answering their questions but a coach rarely offers or gives advice. Many people believe a coach provides expert opinions and "how to" advice and answers to the people they coach. This is not the case in that it is not their job to give a solution to a problem but to rather show those being coached how to solve the problem or a question themselves.
The origin of coaching seems to go back to the mid 1800s in traditional English universities where the students were helped by others to pass their exams successfully. This began to be known as "cramming" (as it still is today) and those that helped the students became known as the coaches. By the late 1800s American college sports teams started having their own coaches too.
It was only a short time later that the non-sporting coach started to appear and during the 20th century people who were not experts in the chosen field of those they were coaching started to emerge because they only needed to offer more general motivation and inspirational advice. In the last 20 years this industry has exploded with all kinds of people entering the field of personal to business coaches through to sports and fitness coaching.
Today the business of coaching has expanded all over the world in both sporting and the non-sporting environments and listed below is a sampling of the diversity of the coaching industry. You can have individual coaching or personal coaching which is often referred to or marketed as life coaching. Along side this there is the more traditional area of team coaching and as with individual coaching, team coaching focuses on improving performance.
Coaching itself can be broken down further into organizational coaching, business and executive coaching, systemic coaching, dissertation coaching, all the way though to dating, co-coaching, music and leadership coaching, to list only a few areas.
Today coaching in both the sports and non-sporting environments does involve some form of teaching (although it is more learning through what those being coached pick up) but focuses more on non-directive questioning and provocation to help teams and clients to analyze and solve their own challenges and problems, rather than offering advice or direction in solving them.
In the very competitive world we live in many national teams that do not win consistently will consider replacing the coach before changing the make-up of their team. So you will also find 'the coach', in many instances, is "result driven" - if they want to hold on to their position.
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