How can your coach help?
What coaching isn't.
Personal Coaching:
- Identifying Self
- Self esteem building
- Moving on After Loss
- Dealing with Mid Life Transitions
- Having more satisfying relationships
- Having A healthier lifestyle
- Getting Organized
- Finding
the Balance between Work and Home Life
- Getting Career Satisfaction
- Setting Goals
- Acquiring Enhanced Interpersonal Skills
- Dealing with difficult people
Professional Coaching:
- Presenting the Best 'You'
- Setting Goals for time, sales, etc.
- Getting
Organized
- Finding Balance between Work and Home Life
- Getting Career Satisfaction - Acquiring Enhanced Interpersonal Skills
- Dealing with difficult people - Finding funding and support -
Building your business with ongoing support
Coaching is not counseling, mentoring, therapy or consulting! Counseling and therapy look into the past to determine how you got here. Consulting considers the situation; tells you what you how to make changes. Mentoring has one person helping another person do what they do. Coaching can include any of these, as required by the client.
What coaching is.
The International Coaching Federation definition of Coaching:
The ICF adheres to a form of coaching that honours the client as the expert in his/her personal and/or professional life and believes that every client is creative, resourceful and whole. Standing on this foundations, the coach’s responsibility is to:
- Discover, clarify, and align with what the client wants to achieve.
- Encourage client self-discovery.
- Elicit client- generated solutions and strategies.
- Hold the client responsible and accountable.
Thus, professional coaching is an ongoing partnership that helps clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Through the coaching process, clients deepen learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.
In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action. Coaching accelerates the clients progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where clients are today and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be tomorrow.
Coaching will focus on three aspects of the client: the personal core of the client, what they want and what they are willing to do or change to get what they want. The coach is not the leader, they are a partner , listener and client advocate. The client is the leader.
A Coach helps you clarify who you are, what your values are and what is needed to be true to yourself. If you are not true to your values, you create a disharmony within yourself. You decide if you are making life choices that are right for you, or if you are following societal trends. A coach helps you figure out what you need to do to be happy and balanced. A coach uses inquiry, reflection, requests and discussion to help you identify personal and/or business, so you can develop strategies, relationships and action plans intended to achieve those goals. A coach keeps you focused and works with you to redefine your goals and dreams. Your coach not only supports you, but helps push you to reach the goals you set for yourself. Your coach holds you accountable for the goals you set and the action plan you use to meet those goals.
Don't wait for circumstances to be perfect before you take steps to put more choice in your life.