AREAS OF POWER

 

• Personal power

Most of what happens within coaching has to do with developing personal power. Of course, there is support with gaining skills, ownership, sponsorship, networking, etc.

• Skills

These are your natural talents and what you did learn. Obviously, your education and any training you received represent valuables sources of power.

• Ownership

Includes money, property and belongings

• Sponsorship

This works both ways: you can be a sponsor or you can benefit from sponsorship. These are power systems that dictate a certain distribution of power. This is not a financial sponsorship. It is a system of moral and energy support. Spiritual faith and empowerment, as an inner quality would be classified here under the "invisible" sponsorship category. These systems are usually agreed on an instinctual base. For instance the way informal groups will distribute power (if there is no formal organization) is very much an instinctual expression of power rather than a rational organized decision.

• Networking

This is the power you get from being part of something. It is a mutual system of forces which empowers all members. Synergy for instance would be part of this type of empowering dynamics

• Political

This type of power is the one given to you by any form of organizational structure. A government for instance concentrates the power which has been delegated to it by the members of a country. If you are the CEO of an organization, you will receive authority and power to lead this organization.