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What are the Benefits of Ontological Coaching?


— February 11, 2021

Ontological coaching is unique due to its transformational abilities that bring out the best in people. 


Business executives who belong to the top management group must hone their relationship skills with other employees and take the right decisions at the correct times to improve the business performance. Keeping employees motivated is one of the major tasks of senior business executives, helping the business grow, especially in large organizations. Organizations are continually training or coaching the executives to improve their relationship skills that benefit the organization. 

To enhance the senior executives’ effectiveness, organizations seek help from professional business coaches who specialize in Ontological Coaching. Many people consider it the gold standard of coaching as it provides the cutting edge to the training programs by making them profoundly transformational. Those who have undergone Ontological training confess that these programs are compelling for building relationships and sustaining them.

What is Ontological Coaching?

Ontological Coaching‘s approach focuses on the person in the way he or she exists. It considers the body, language, and emotions that work in unison to shape the personality in the way it exists.

Image by Nathan Lemon, via Unsplash.com.
Image by Nathan Lemon, via Unsplash.com.

Various factors, including people and events, impact executives’ perception, which in turn influences their attitude. Sometimes they are unaware of things going wrong because of their attitude, which is often anomalous and fraught with discrepancies due to some misconception or faulty perception about the situations they are facing. 

As there is no system in place to help senior executives reflect about their actions and others prefer not to point fingers at them, most executives remain unaware of their shortcomings that affect relationships. As a result, they continue with harmful habits that work against the organization’s interests, albeit unknowingly. 

What does Ontological training teach?

Language – The focus of Ontological training is to improve communications by helping senior executives communicate most effectively while interacting with business associates and employees. The coaching will help senior executives correctly understand the messages they receive while talking to people from within and outside the organization. 

On undergoing Ontological training, the executives learn how written, and spoken language are different and acquire the skills of using the most appropriate language for communication, whether it is verbal or written communication. This helps them to communicate in the most befitting manner and take decisions by adequately understanding the messages underlying the communications that they receive during their interactions with others across the organization.

Emotions – Ontological training emphasizes the importance of understanding sentiments that manifest in the form of moods, which is an intangible factor that affects behavior. The training uses a unique moods framework that triggers the executives’ development of more helpful moods, which translates into more constructive behaviors and perceptions. 

Physicality and body – One of the central tenets of Ontological training is the body that plays a crucial role in learning, perception, and change. Addressing the body as an object during the coaching allows the trainees to gain valuable insights that are not possible through language and emotions.

Ontological coaching is unique due to its transformational abilities that bring out the best in people. 

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