The document discusses the principles of coaching. It defines coaching as a collaboration between a coach and coachee to create insights and ideas needed for desired change. The coach's responsibilities are to keep focus on goals, facilitate thinking, and provide feedback, while the coachee generates ideas, takes action, and reports progress. Coaching differs from counseling, training, mentoring and management. Coaching addresses current work issues for a set period through questioning, while counseling addresses long-term personal issues. External coaches offer specialist skills but may lack organization knowledge, while internal coaches have context but could be distracted or biased. Coaching can be formal for urgent tasks or informal for demonstration. Successful coaching relies on equal partnership, openness based on