How do you decide how to pitch your coaching style? Like anything, using the same approach isn’t always going to work.

John Heron’s framework provides a model for analysing how you deliver help. Heron’s model has two basic styles – “authoritative” and “facilitative” which further breakdown into six categories to describe how people intervene when helping.

If a helping intervention is “authoritative”, it means that the person “helping” is giving information, challenging the other person or suggesting what the other person should do.

If a helping intervention is “facilitative”, it means that the person “helping” is drawing out ideas, solutions, self-confidence, and so on, from the other person, helping him or her to reach his or her own solutions or decisions.

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Thank you so much to Ros Carton for sharing this.