Abstract:
Passion is the key word of my coaching profession, and also the key word of
my study. My coaching experience has evolved around this term. My research started
from exploring and investigating the meaning of the term passion as a successful
coach as the first research objective. The second research objective was to develop
a model for coaching with passion, and the third research objective was to explore the
effectiveness of the developed coaching with passion model and its activities. The last
research objective was to implement and evaluate the passionate coaching approach.
The researcher took the pragmatism paradigm as the philosophical guideline to the
study. The phenomenological strategy was integrated with the Five-Phase T&D
process. The researcher collected the qualitative data to find the meaning of passion
by interviewing five notable coaches in Thailand and then developing a coaching
model that was embodied with passion, which is called Coaching with passion
through a five-phase T&D process. The model development was achieved through the
ongoing field-coaching practice with these five coachees. The researcher has applied
various aspects of coaching integrating with the concept of passion to get a prototype
model. The prototype was put into practice and was repeatedly revised. Finally the
model of coaching with passion was confirmed. The final part of the research was to
assure the effectiveness of the model.
The research results were as follows:
1. The passion meant to do something with a strong desire, love, and
happiness. Another definition of passion is fear that drives the person to do thing.
It started at the beginning stage of thought and continuing to other steps until success
was achieved. Moreover, it was a willingness to develop the outcome for a better
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result in the future with more creativity. The result of doing so could support other
people to establish a feeling of happiness.
2. The Coaching with passion approach consisted of four components which
work interactively together. They were: 1) current: the coach must find the current
aspect of the person. 2) Outcome: the coach must identify the persons dream and
ways to achieve it. 3) Motivation: the coach must stimulate, motivate and induce the
energy of the person, and 4) Energy: the coach must create alternatives, inspiration
and energy to achieve the set goal.
3. The coaching with passion effectiveness after the implementation was
demonstrated in that through the application of the model the coachee could generate
different desirable characteristics, namely: self-knowledge, self-confidence, courage
to design his/her own life, happiness, decision making, self-caring, being patient,
discovering new opportunities, power and creativity, and being a giver.
The researcher has suggested that the coaching with passion the COME
model can be used by many different professions in order to help individuals to be
successful where they have failed before.