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BOOST Global Competence for Advancing
Social Inclusion and Career Paths for
Vulnerable Women

Coaching: Coaching is not:
• is helping individuals set and pursue • therapy or counselling, which implies
personal and/or professional goals, the involvement of a mental health
focusing on their set of resources, i.e. professional. Do not assume that the
leveraging their competencies. women have any mental issues
Rememeber that these women have impending them to achieve their
the ability to change their way of goals
thinking and behaviours to pursuit
growth

• is to facilitate the learning, • training, although some of the
development, and increased coaching techniques can include
performance of an individual. Your methodologies use in learning. Do not
practice should be essentially non- see these women as passive recievers
directive, with the emphasis on of your knowledge and advise
helping the women being coached to
learn, rather than teaching or training
them

• deals with specific tasks and skills that • mentorship, often used in
can be mastered and measured. Your professional and organisational
goal here is to boost these women contexts, focusing on longer-term
self-awareness an internal resources development or progress within an
(experiences, creativity) to improve organisation. Do not assume that you
their job performance or personal are more experienced and know
growth more than the women you will coach

Level 1: Personal

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