What is coaching?

 

Coaching provides the opportunity for you to take part in a thought-provoking and creative process, inspiring you to maximise your personal and professional potential.  With me you enter a unique professional relationship that empowers you to achieve your desired goals.  As your coach, I do not provide answers and solutions; I am not an expert in how best to live your life.  Instead, I believe you have the tools to design and create your own actions that will lead you to where you want to go. 

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Professional coaching focuses on setting goals, creating outcomes and managing personal change. Other service professions, like consulting and psychotherapy, are based on the wisdom and expertise of the professional. In coaching you—the client—are the expert. Your coach’s role is to ask powerful questions, act as a sounding board, provide objective assessment and observations, listen fully and actively, challenge your blind spots, and foster shifts in thinking that reveal fresh perspectives. 

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Through the transformative power of coaching, you can be your own superhero.  

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How does coaching work? 

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As your coach, I shall support you on your journey using a range of tools and techniques that have been tried and tested.  All coaching sessions follow the International Coach Federation’s competency guidelines but remain tailored to you.  Through profound questioning, having space and time to explore, we can uncover limiting beliefs, explores key values and create actions that you can accomplish.  Confidentiality, trust and authenticity and key to a successful coaching relationship.

 

What is a coach?

 

• A coach - has a natural desire to help others grow and develop, to become the best they can be.

• A coach - is willing to help someone by listening to them, challenging their thinking and encouraging action.

• A coach - sustains commitment to someone’s true potential and goals, even perhaps when their own self-belief falters. 

• The meeting of two individuals is like the contact of two chemical substances, if there is a reaction, both are transformed. 

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As a coaching client, your role is to: 

 

• Create the coaching agenda based on personally meaningful goals. 

• Assume full responsibility for your own decisions and actions. 

• Use the coaching process to promote possibility thinking and fresh perspectives. 

• Engage big picture thinking and problem-solving skills. 

• Take the tools, concepts, models and principles provided by your coach and engage in effective forward actions. 

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How can coaching help you?   

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• Do you want to manage your work/life balance better?

• Do you have a specific work or personal goal you would like to achieve?

• Do you ever feel I am not good enough?

• Do you ever feel like you might be finally caught out?

• Do you feel yourself saying your success was down to luck?

• Do you lack motivation?

• Do you struggle to overcome hurdles?

• Do you recognise weaknesses and strengths?

• Do you struggle to achieve your goals?

• Have you been made redundant and don’t know where to go next? 

• Do you want the confidence to take the leap into new waters? 

• Do you lack confidence? 

• Is a belief stopping you achieving your goals? 

• Are you lacking accountability?

• Are you looking to achieve the best work life balance? 

• Do you find you are always saying yes when you want to say no?

• Do you find you are doing a certain thing to excess?

• Do you question nothing good will ever happen to me? 

• Do you shy away from tasks you really need to action?

• Are you searching for fulfilment? 

• Is a fear you have holding you back?

• Do you struggle with time management? 

• Are you scared of taking that promotion?

 

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How can coaching help you and your business? 

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• You want to know how to optimize your work performance. 

• You want to improve confidence in presentations or meeting.

• You want to gain confidence with your pricing and fees.

• You want to develop better strategies to increase your work performance.

• You want to move forward and stop procrastinating.

• You want to answers email in a timely manner but not think you have to answer them at 10pm.

• You do not want your work to be with you 24/7.

• You have a forthcoming situation or meeting that you would like to prepare for.

• You want to improve your business management strategies and run your business more effectively. 

• You want your team to work better together.

• Do you have trouble delegating work to others? 

• How do you grow your business, without working more hours.

• Are you launching a new business and are not sure where to start.

• Do you want to reduce your workload? 

• Are you looking to take on staff?

• Are you thinking of selling?

• Do you have an exit plan for retirements?

• What does life look like after sale/retirement?

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Remember:

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• People are different!  A good coach will learn to experience the world through their client’s eyes.

• We all have choices – coaching is about expanding our choices.

• You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge - change is possible.

• We have the resources within us which we need to make changes – coaching can help us find them. 

• You have the answers – I have the questions.