There is nothing he may not make natural;
there is nothing natural he may not lose
B. Pascal
Strategic coaching represents the ultimate applicative evolution of advanced brief strategic theoretical principles and operative methodologies developed and applied to both clinical areas and organizational settings.
Strategic coaching means dealing with interventions oriented towards the development and empowerment of the person's talents.
A strategic coach firstly identifies and recognizes the presence of emotional, cognitive or behavioural blocks which might inhibit the expression of the client's personal resources.
This means that the coach possesses knowledge and “instruments” which are capable of facilitating, in the most effective and rapid manner, the overcoming of such “blocks” allowing the person's talents to spontaneously surface.
There are some fundamental characteristics that differentiate strategic coaching from other coaching approaches: strategic coaching possesses an extremely effective and original methodology of unblocking those “traps” which inhibit the full employment of the person's abilities.
The strategic coach guides the person, or the group, towards developing new perspectives and perceptions of reality and of personal resources; the coach leads the client to live new and often unexpected experiences, developing the necessary capabilities to obtain higher learning, performance and gratification levels.
From this perspective, strategic coaching is a journey of self-development, where the person is guided towards unleashing potential and resources; allowing the individual to experience these abilities in different contexts and situations means going beyond achieving a limited and immediate result, but rather focuses on reaching a full development of the person's potential.
The almost exclusive work on the process (the “how”), which will guide the person to unblock and develop his own resources, gives the strategic coach the ability of permitting the client to work on his perceived limits and difficulties without the direct need of unravelling their content and reason.
This is one of the most original characteristics differentiating strategic coaching from other traditional approaches.
With this particular background, the advanced strategic coaching model leads to concrete results in a brief time span, both when applied to single individuals or to groups.