COACH
This word has some meanings and using like in sports, or to identify specific vehicle, or as verb like to train.
But all these meanings have a common denominator. In the deep meaning you can find the concept of "moving people from a status to another".
Coaching is a method to help people to find the way to let their potential come out to achieve own targets. I love to describe coaching as a "vehicle" to move people or team, from a status to a better one, in life or in business or in sports.
Coaching helps to increase performance and overtake problems to unlock potential.
COACHING
In the pic there's Timothy Gallwey, basically one of the founding fathers of coaching along with John Withmore.
Mr. Gallwey, building on his experience as a tennis instructor, published a series of books focusing on inner dialogue, referred to as the Inner Game, laying the foundation for the coaching method.
The method is based primarily on active learning by experience. The role of the coach is to facilitate the client in having experiences in order to learn, including through error, how to achieve his or her goals.
The coach does not guide, does not advise. The coach facilitates you in making decisions, which will be yours and yours alone, to do, to act. By doing you will find your own way to achieve your goals, in life, in business as in sports.