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

The aims of the BOOST coaching scheme are:

§ to offer personalised life coaching sessions to meet the individual and professional needs and
goals of women facing vulnerable situations
§ to provide reassurance, confidential and impartial advice, and guidance to enable women in
vulnerable situations to enhance personal and professional performance, to achieve goals and
solve any difficulties or barriers

This recommendation section offers a set of FAQS (Frequently Asked Questions) to better support
professionals (trainers, career counsellors, social workers, and intercultural mediators) implementing
the BOOST 4-level coaching model:

§ FAQ1: Why the BOOST coaching programme?
§ FAQ2: Which competencies are addressed in each coaching level?
§ FAQ3: How are the coaching cycles to be implemented?
§ FAQ4: What coaching tools are most appropriate?
§ FAQ5: How to deal with the practicalities of the coaching cycles?
§ FAQ6: How to monitor and measure the impact of the coaching cycles?

FAQ1: Why the BOOST coaching programme?

Coaching is a collaborative process, between a Coach and a Coachee used to enhance one person’s
knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours, professional and personal performance.

The International Coaching Federation defines coaching

as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to
maximise their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks
previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity, and leadership.

The European Mentoring & Coaching Council in its Professional Charter for Coaching and Mentoring
indicates that

a professional coach can be described as an expert in establishing a relationship with people
in a series of conversations with the purpose of serving the clients to improve their
performance or enhance their personal development or both, choosing their own goals and
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ways of doing it.
Additionally, to these concepts, life coaching also refers to an approach aiming at supporting
individuals to achieve full potential and desired results or goals.

The BOOST coaching programme is aligned with these definitions as it intends to support vulnerable
women in achieving a specific personal or professional goal. It will do so by providing professionals
with the specific resources and tools to help them achieve that.

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4 ICF: https://coachingfederation.org/about (last access 10/11/2021)