Coaching Insights
Essays and research on how coaching actually works — what changes behavior, what sustains it, and what the evidence shows.
Concepts
- AI Coaching
Any system that uses artificial intelligence to facilitate reflection, clarify goals, and move a person from insight to action — distinct from a chatbot that only retrieves information.
- AI Disclosure in Coaching
The ethical requirement that a person always knows whether they are interacting with a human coach or an AI, and consents to the AI interaction.
- Behavior Change Enabler
A coaching system measured by whether it moves a person from insight to sustained new behavior, not by how much they engage with it.
- Goal Accountability
The practice of structured follow-up on commitments — asking what got in the way and what would make next week different — rather than simply tracking completion.
- Hybrid Human–AI Coaching
A model where AI handles continuous tracking, check-ins, and data synthesis while a human coach uses that intelligence to make periodic sessions deeper and more focused.
- Imposter Syndrome
The persistent internal experience of believing oneself unqualified despite evidence of competence, often surfacing as hedging, self-deprecation, and catastrophizing.