Modelling the Complexity of the Coaching Process

It is understandable that coach educators are interested in a heuristic model of the coachingprocess - so are the many coaches who yearn for guidance and direction to facilitate theircoaching practice. The purpose of these heuristic models is to provide some structuraloverview of what coaches do; which, in turn, guide the development of some key coachingskills. That is, templates or models might be used to guide basic coach development.However, I am not sure that developers of such models believed their models [e.g., 1] weretruly representative of the complex and dynamic nature of coaching. Some models [e.g., 1]were only meant to schematically represent the key dimensions of coaches’ work. Perhapsone problem associated with models is not the models