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Albert Bandura's Learning theory
In which coachees are seen as acquiring skills through coming to
understand the processes of learning and developing
appropriate self-efficacy expectations - expecting to achieve
their goals by learning useful behaviours).

Essential Therapeutic Orientations
The Egan Skilled Helper approach encourages coachees to
become active interpreters of the world, giving meanings to
actions, events and situations, facing and overcoming
challenges, exploring problem issues, seeking new opportunities
and establishing goals. Quite simply, success usually comes
when human beings become active in initiating positive
behaviours and developing problem-solving strategies.
The Skilled Helper aims to help their coachees develop the skills
and the knowledge necessary to solve both their current
problems issues and ones that may arise in the future. To
facilitate coachee development the helper builds a healthy
therapeutic alliance with the coachee based on collaboration,
warmth and acceptance.
The Skilled Helper facilitates the coachee by helping them to
formulate a plan of action, helping them accept their
responsibility for becoming a more effective person and helping
them to develop their own inner resources.
The Skilled Helper also helps their coachee to transfer newly
acquired skills and knowledge to fresh situations, facilitates
them in establishing appropriate and realistic goals (that match
their problem-solving skills), encourages them to become
selfdirectiveand develop the skills of problem-solving, helps
them to build on their inner strengths and to utilize external
resources and support groups, helps them realize their potential
and facilitates them in developing goals which are specific,
measurable, achievable, realistic, ethical and reasonable.
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