A Coaching Model Created by Anurag Sharma
(Leadership & Business Performance Coach, INDIA)
A Coaching relationship is based on the principle that the client is a fully functional person and has the ability and means to set goals and achieve them. In a coaching session therefore the coach engages with the client in a conversation to enhance the client’s self-awareness, and to co-create a plan and structure which will aid the client’s progress towards a goal that he wants to achieve.
Since the coach is primarily helping the client become more self aware and leverage his own strengths, skills, knowledge, experiences and resourcefulness to bring forth solutions, strategies and structures that will help the client to improve and make progress in the direction of his goal; Coaching may therefore be likened to giving vitality and enthusiasm to the client so that he can tap into his potential and his dormant, latent or undeveloped/underdeveloped capacity and capability so as to achieve the results he wants to achieve.
The E.N.E.R.R.G.I.S.S.E. (pronounced “energize”) coaching model is built on the above reasoning and thought.
Every alphabet of the acronym ENERRGISSE is a step in the coaching process and relates to a corresponding activity/outcome of this coaching model. Note however that this is not a rigid step-by-step “in-that-sequence” model, it is meant to be a broad framework and sufficiently fluid and adaptable in its application as the coach “dances with the client”.
E.N.E.R.R.G.I.S.S.E. – Establish (Session Goals and Measures)
In response to appropriate questions of the Coach the client states
The coach will intermittently check with the client if the session is progressing positively for the client and is addressing the session objective set out by the client at the start.
E.N.E.R.R.G.I.S.S.E. – iNfluences (People, Environment)
In response to appropriate questions of the Coach the client states
E.N.E.R.R.G.I.S.S.E. – Elicit (Importance of this goal, Commitment to change, Perspectives, Values & Beliefs)
In response to appropriate questions of the Coach the client states
E.N.E.R.R.G.I.S.S.E. – Reflect & Reframe
In response to appropriate questions and feedback from the Coach the client
E.N.E.R.R.G.I.S.S.E. – Generate (Options)
In response to appropriate questions of the Coach the client states
E.N.E.R.R.G.I.S.S.E. – Isolate
In response to appropriate questions of the Coach the client identifies the most appealing and advantageous options that he would like to immediately start to work on.
E.N.E.R.R.G.I.S.S.E. – Strategy & Structures
In response to appropriate questions of the Coach the client states
E.N.E.R.R.G.I.S.S.E. – Enquire
The coach will enquire from the client
In the E.N.E.R.R.G.I.S.S.E. Coaching Model, the Coach will harnesses various tools such as Powerful Questioning, Powerful Listening, Effective Feedback, Re-framing Perspectives and various other Power Tools to energize and enthuse client into taking stock of self and the present, and then taking responsibility to achieve what the client would like to achieve.