Renewal Counseling Center is pleased to announce that Bob Younglove, M.Ed, performance coach and change management consultant has joined our staff.
Bob brings more than 30 years experience as a performance coach, motivational speaker and change management consultant to RCC. Bob’s performance coaching experience includes teenagers and adults, coaching business executives and coaching Olympics-bound athletes. His talent lies in his ability to develop personalized programs for developing human potential into improved performance.
In addition to working with clients individually, Bob plans to facilitate small groups for adults who are in transition and small groups for teens who need to address test taking skills and other strategies for academic success. Dates for these groups will be sent.
For information or to receive a brochure about Performance Coaching for yourself, friends, relatives, patients or others, call Bob Younglove at 410-529-2151.
Distinction Between Performance Coaching and Therapy
The Coaching client is someone who wants to reach one or more of the following: a higher level of performance, enhanced learning, a new level of personal development, greater career success, or increased life satisfaction. The client is not seeking emotional healing or relief from psychological pain.
The coaching client takes action to move toward a goal, and often to reach higher levels of personal development, with the support of the coach. Clients who are appropriate for coaching can readily move from thoughtful reflection into action and are not significantly bogged down by “unfinished business”.
Coaches and clients create the focus, format, and desired outcomes for their work. The client and the coach share responsibility for the design of the coaching agenda.
Coaching is designed to help clients improve their learning, performance, and personal development and to enhance their quality of life. Coaching does not focus directly on relieving psychological pain or treating cognitive or emotional disorders.
Coaching concentrates primarily on the present and future. Coaching uses information from the client’s past to clarify where the client is today. Coaching does not focus on the resolution of past trauma as a precursor to help the client move forward. Thus, compared to many forms of psychotherapy, coaching spends proportionately less time discussing past upsetting events. Instead, most of the focus is on designing the future, supporting current peak performance, and nurturing the client’s emerging developmental edge.
Coaching assumes that there will be emotional reactions to life events and that appropriate coaching clients are capable of expressing and handling their emotions. Coaching is not psychotherapy and emotional healing is not the focus of coaching. Although coaching can be used concurrently with psychotherapeutic work, it is not used as a substitute for psychotherapeutic work.
Advice, opinions, or suggestions are occasionally offered in coaching. Coaches often make requests or suggestions of the client to promote action toward the client’s desired outcome. Both parties understand that the client takes the ultimate responsibility for action.
