What is coaching?

Professional coaching creates the space to focus the mind, enabling you to deepen your resources and step out of your own way, recognizing your own agency and ultimately creating longer lasting and more valuable results. It is collaborative in its nature and fully honors the client with their needs and goals at the heart of the work.

The co-creative approach of coaching allows the client to tap into undiscovered and untouched potential, creating a change that is unearthed from the co-active power of the coaching relationship.

Coaching opens up room for depth and width to create fulfillment and new possibilities in all areas of your life.  It closes the gap from where you are now and where you want to be, and unlocks the authenticity in who you are becoming.

With awareness, conscious choice and meaningful action you discover your truth, unleash your powerful self and create meaningful transformation.

What are the benefits of coaching?

Individuals who engage in a coaching relationship can expect to experience fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities, enhanced thinking and decision making skills, enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in carrying out their chosen work and life roles. Consistent with a commitment to enhancing their personal effectiveness, they can also expect to see appreciable results in the areas of productivity, personal satisfaction with life and work, and the achievement of personally relevant goals.

• Serving as a trusted adviser and mentor who supports the executive in developing strategies to solve his or her own problems and ultimately achieving peak performance.

• Providing structured and focused conversations (and sometimes role playing) to help them improve their job performance.

• Helping the executive manage stress, feel more self-confident, and develop effective leadership skills.

• Holding the client accountable for taking actions necessary to reach his or her own chosen goals.
  

What are some typical reasons someone might work with me?

There are many reasons that an individual or team might choose to work with a coach, including but not limited to the following:

• There is something at stake (a challenge, stretch goal, or opportunity), and it is urgent, compelling, exciting or all of the above

• There is a gap in knowledge, skills, confidence, or resources

• There is a desire to accelerate results

• There is a need for a course correction in work or life due to a setback

• An individual has a style of relating that is ineffective or is not supporting the achievement of one’s personally relevant goals

• There is a lack of clarity, and there are choices to be made

• The individual is extremely successful, and success has started to become problematic

• Work and life are out of balance, and this is creating unwanted consequences

• One has not identified his or her core strengths and how best to leverage them

• The individual desires work and life to be simpler, less complicated

• There is a need and a desire to be better organized and more self-managing
  

Is coaching right for you?

To determine if you could benefit from coaching, start by summarizing what you would expect to accomplish in coaching. When someone has a fairly clear idea of the desired outcome, a coaching partnership can be a useful tool for developing a strategy for how to achieve that outcome with greater ease. Since coaching is a partnership, also ask yourself if you find it valuable to collaborate, to have another viewpoint and to be asked to consider new perspectives. Also, ask yourself if you are ready to devote the time and the energy for self-reflection in your work or life. If the answer to these questions is yes, then coaching may be a beneficial way for you to grow and develop.