Most of what happens within coaching has to do with developing personal power. Of course, there is support with gaining skills, ownership, sponsorship, networking, etc.

Skills

Ownership

Sponsorship

This works both ways: you can be a sponsor or you can benefit from sponsorship. These are power systems which dictate a certain distribution of power.

This is not a financial sponsorship. It is a system of moral and energy support.

Spiritual faith and empowerment, as an inner quality would be classified here under the "invisible" sponsorship category.

These systems are usually agreed on an instinctual base. For instance the way informal groups will distribute power (if there is no formal organization) is very much an instinctual projection.

Networking

This is the power you get from being part of something. It is a mutual system of forces which empowers all members. Synergy for instance would be part of this type of empowering dynamics

Political

Coercion

This type of power is based on force, violence and military.

Check as well types of personal power for a model which leaves aside political, business, organizational, coercive, etc.

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