Coaching is a professional relationship that enhances your ability to learn,
make changes, and achieve desired goals. Your coach helps you get clear
about what you want to accomplish, set specific goals, make an effective action
plan, stay focused, and eliminate obstacles. In a coaching relationship, you
and your coach prioritize, plan, analyze, troubleshoot, and brainstorm. Your
coach provides structure, feedback, perspective, and skill-building techniques.
Together, you evaluate options, make decisions, track your progress, and celebrate
achievements.
Coaching is not consulting although it is consultative. Traditional consulting offers answers and expertise. Coaching facilitates discovery by assisting you to find your own unique answers. Your coach provides his own expertise whenever it is useful, but never does things for you. The primary role of your coach is to listen, question, observe, pinpoint, re-frame, and articulate what is going on. The plans you make are your own.
Coaching is not teaching, although it is educational. While teaching can fade, coaching reinforces learned concepts and skills until they become second nature. Your coach often provides skills training in the "need-to-know" moment that teaching misses. You can discover how much you already know. You learn more by discovering answers than by hearing them.
Coaching is not therapy, although it is therapeutic. The focus of coaching involves taking a hard look at what a fulfilling life looks like, and then identifying specific plans action steps, and ways of thinking that will move you toward achieving your goals. Coaching is focused both on who you want to be in life and then on taking action; it is not focused specifically on healing. Yet, an outcome of coaching can be that healing takes place. It looks at the future, not the past. Why you are the way you are doesn't matter. How you want to be is the point.
Coaching unlocks a person's potential to maximize his or her
own performance. The structure of coaching is flexible. You and your coach
custom-design a coaching arrangement that meets your individual needs and
schedule. The basic design consists of:
· An initial session to create a coaching strategy
· Regular on-going coaching sessions (in person or by phone).
Coaching sessions are usually weekly, lasting ½ hour. You and your coach define the length and frequency that best supports you. Sessions may be focused on one specific challenge you are facing, or on a much broader set of personal or professional issues. Coaching relationships generally last from three months to several years. It all depends on you.
Coaching works. Call to find out what a coach
can do for you.
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