What is Coaching?
What to Work on With a Coach
Who Needs a Coach?
How Does Coaching Work?
Is Coaching for You?

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What Is Coaching?

Coaching is a collaborative partnership that allows you to begin living your ideal life sooner and more effectively that you would if you were creating it alone.

The focus is on you, the client.

Your coach is your mentor, guide, partner, sounding board and advocate.

The personal coaching environment is a safe, confidential place for you to begin to explore your authentic self, develop skills, excavate your true desires and realize greater fulfillment in life.

Coaching synthesizes the best from psychology, transformational work, business, philosophy and financial wisdom in a way that will benefit the entrepreneur, the professional, the business owner, and the individual.

With a personal coach you will work with someone who will

• Be honest and straightforward with you
• Act as your unbiased sounding board
• Listen to your concerns and ideas
• Appreciate who you really are
• Focus exclusively on your interests and successes
• Celebrate your wins with you
• Give you appropriate feedback

What to Work on With a Coach

Personal coaching is based on YOU. With your coach you will discover what will make you truly happy and fulfilled. Perhaps you have some dreams you keep meaning to do but don’t know how to begin.  You decide the areas of our life you want to work on. It might be

• Achieving financial security
• Building more satisfying relationships
• Finding a career that honors your values
• Building a life with less stress and struggle, more clarity, more serenity, more fun
• Learning to say “no” so as to take greater care of the self
• Doing what is really important and not doing what isn’t really important

A coach can also help you:

• Simplify and organize your time and life
• Identify, clarify and actualize dreams and goals
• Develop a plan for achieving success with integrity
• Design and execute life planning step by step
• Get started and follow through to the end of a project, both personal and professional
• Become focused by learning to eliminate distractions
• Grow your business and personal life to a higher level
• Identify and develop the skills you already have
• Set goals with the emphasis on your values and your vision of your preferred future
• Stay focused on goals
• Work holistically to develop the whole person—emotional, physical, spiritual and intellectual
• Find the way to live your life to the fullest!

With a personal coach you will find yourself ceasing to put up with things that drag you down and drain you of energy. You will learn how to be more effective and take care of you without feeling guilty.

Who Needs a Coach?

People who come to coaching are often those who have already reached a good level of success in their lives and are eager to take it to the next level personally and professionally. For example, executives and business owners who have achieved a great deal in their lives and want to create greater happiness and fulfillment. Corporate managers who want to achieve greater success within the organization often hire coaches for their employees or for teams of employees.

 Coaching is for anybody who:

• Doesn’t love what they do and who are spending most of their time doing what is not important to them
• Is planning a career change
• Needs a fresh perspective on life
• Is in a rut
• Wants to start their own business
• Feels unproductive or unsuccessful and wants greater results and satisfaction in life
• Wants to simplify life and achieve balance between all the parts of their life
• Is in life transition into or out of the workforce
• Wants a values-based life
• Is facing a series of challenges and is not sure what direction to take
• Wants to mange their time better

How Does Coaching Work?

Coaching is a proactive experience that grounds concepts in the steps necessary to make ideas into reality.  It works because of:

Synergy: The coach and client become a team. They are partners, focused on the client’s goals and needs. Together they can accomplish more than if they were alone. “Two heads are better than one”

Structure: With a coach the client takes more actions, thinks bigger, gets the job done using a game plan and doable action steps

Expertise:  Coaches inspire, nudge clients on the right direction, keep them focused and on purpose, bring out their best in their natural abilities, their strengths, and their unique gifts. The focus in coaching is on developing the person, who they ARE instead of the many things they DO.

Coaching kicks people out of their comfort zone, and guides and encourages them to take risks that can create happiness on their job, in relationships and in life.

Often a coach’s role is to ask questions to help the client find their own answers and see their problem from the position of their greatest strength.

For example, a coach might ask you:

• What do you really want?
• What isn’t working for you in your life right now?
• What do you want more, and less, of in your life?
• Where do you want to be in five years?
• What gets in the way of you getting the results you want?
• What are you putting up with?
• What does your ideal life look like?
• What is your unique talent?
• What one thing would make the biggest difference in your life right now?
• What’s the biggest challenge you have?
• If you could have anything, what would it be?
• What goal are you ready to achieve?

 

Is Coaching for You?

Not everyone is ready for a coach. You have to be ready, willing and able to change behaviors that have not gotten results for you in the past, to accept responsibility, and to let nothing stand in your way.

You have to give it time also; not only for the actual session, but also for actions between calls that support the changes you are seeking.

"Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be."
Grandma Moses