What is Coaching?
Coaching is a sophisticated form of teaching and learning that is customized to fit your needs. It is an interactive process that helps you move beyond your current level of success and create the personal and professional life you want.
You will achieve sustainable results by defining and focusing on what success means to you. Creating a vision, defining your values and goals, and discovering what you need to be your best, will help you take consistent action to achieve sustainable results.
Coaching begins with your desire to reach for what you want, whether it is a specific personal or business accomplishment, or a more meaningful existence; coaching can inspire you to accomplish the desired result through personalized teaching, expanding awareness and supporting you to create and design your environment for success.
Coaching works when there are two factors present:
- The client is willing to grow, and
- There is a gap between where they are now and where they want to be.
A Successful client knows the value of sharing ideas with someone who can understand and listen to their needs and provide an objective response that allows them to discover their own unique approach to fulfilling their goals.
Coaching works because of three unique features:
- SYNERGY: Client and coach become a team, focusing together on the client’s goals and needs to accomplish more than the client would alone.
- STRUCTURE: A coach provides a safe place for the client to develop their vision and goals and provides external accountability, supporting the client to take action, think bigger, and get the job done.
- EXPERTISE: A coach has the knowledge to help clients make better decisions, set well thought out goals, and develop new skills for achieving maximum productivity in their professional and personal lives.
Coaching is usually done over the phone. In addition to allowing us to have frequent, regular contact, it makes it easy to stay in the “coaching relationship”, since the client can call from their office, home, car or hotel. The person coached completes a coaching call strategy form prior to each call, describing the current challenges and the progress they’ve made since the last call.
I work on a coaching retainer, which means you will be coached for three half hour pre-arranged sessions monthly, with the ability to make brief 5-10 minute touch-ins via phone and unlimited email between sessions.
The focus of the call is determined by you, the client. The coach clients solve the problems and make the most of the opportunities. When they are missing a principle or distinction, we draw one so they can see a whole lot better. When they are taking on a large goal, we help them design and project and provide the support and structure needed to make sure it gets done. We bring out the clients best by offering advice, expecting a lot, helping them strategize and celebrating the wins. There is often “fieldwork”, where the client is given a formula, new perspective or a challenge to try something in a new way. That forms the basis for the next call.
- You take yourself and what you want more seriously.
- You take more effective and focused actions immediately.
- You stop putting up with stuff that gets in your way.
- You create momentum to achieve more, be more balanced and develop more powerful management skills.
- You set personal goals that are clear and meet your needs.
- You identify and eliminate the barriers that get in the way of the achievement of goals.
- You communicate about what you need and want from others in a more responsible way.
Coaching creates an environment where there is freedom from judgment and freedom from expectations that executive behave according to typical corporate mandates. In this environment it is safe to question, to appear vulnerable, to observe, to explore, experiment, to learn and change. That allows the executive to use the coach:
- To reach high targets and quotas. Accomplishing this consistently requires a manager who also coaches a team to work together to reach extraordinary goals.
- For business planning, budgeting and goal-setting.
- To integrate business and personal life for balance.
- To prioritize actions and projects.
- For training, developing and managing staff.
- To turn around a difficult situation.
- To handle business or personal problems.
Relationship coaching can help you find someone special that’s aligned with your goals for life. It can help you find clarity in dealing with challenging and difficult relationships, and it can help you create a closer, more fulfilling experience with your current partner. Relationship Coaching can also help you…
- Have a deeper understanding of who is right for you
- Communicate your needs more effectively
- Be authentic in relationships
- Face the challenges of dating in the modern world
- Transition from the loss of a relationship
- Recognize defeating behavior
