What is Coaching?

Coaching is one of the fastest growing tools that successful people use to live extraordinary lives. It is a partnership between coach and client to engage in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires the client to maximize both their personal and professional potential. In short, the coach, will help the client improve their performance and enhance their quality of life.

Coaching is Not?

• Mentoring; mentor - role modeling "been there and done that"  

• Best friend; telling - judging, can have own agenda

•  Consulting; expert using skills and strategy to achieve specific results

•  Therapy; is focused on past actions and experiences. The past is never the focus of a coaching relationship; the past is recognized and accepted.

 Core Coaching Competencies:

• Ethical - practices the ethical standards as outlined by ICF (International Coach Federation)

• Co-Creates the partnership

• Communicates effectively

• Facilitates learning and results

 As your coach, I will:

• Encourage you to set goals you truly want

• Ask you to do more than you may have done on your own

• Help you focus in order to produce results more quickly

• Hold you accountable to keep your commitments

• Provide you with the tools, support and structure to accomplish more

 What approach will we use?

The approach I use to coaching focuses on both the short-term immediate concerns/goals you are addressing and longer-term issues. We will focus on these simultaneously because addressing both increases the effectiveness of coaching.

People who are consistently successful in their lives tend to have very high congruence across all of the areas of their lives - professional, personal, spiritual, etc. Our approach, while having a primary business focus, will allow you to explore other areas of your life. We will use a holistic perspective with key focus on the areas that might be impacting your level of satisfaction.

 What will we focus on?

Focusing on the short-term gets early successes and allows us to deal with the

issues that is presently occupying most of your mental energy. These are the urgent issues that significantly influence our stress levels and often dictate the level of control we believe we have over our lives.

 Focusing on the longer-term issues allows for deeper, more sustainable change to occur. These are the important, non-urgent issues that are the hardest to commit time to addressing.

 Coaches set expectations:

What will be our process? (This is a standard offer; your needs will be assessed to determine the appropriate coaching schedule for you)

 Process:

We will hold one hour bi-weekly coaching calls. During these calls (meetings) we will validate the goals/objectives on which we are working, assess the situation, develop an agreed upon plan of action, and track the results of our efforts. In between calls, I will be available via e-mail support to answer any of your questions. If need be, we can also follow up with brief phone calls.

 Managing the Coach:

• Self- Awareness - Self Management

• Detached Involvement -  Remaining completely non-judgmental

• The Client knows the answer -  trust the process

•  Being non-judgmental

• Remember that the only constant is change

• Monitor personal stress -  encourage clients to manage their stress