Coaching

Who Uses Coaching?

High-performing executives, managers, and entrepreneurs – intelligent, interesting and demanding people who see their own growth as an indispensable aspect of success and fulfillment. For these people work is more than a job, it is the practice field for their development. Coaching provides robust support in responding to the call to be more effective, dynamic and compassionate, helping initiate and sustain authentic change both personally and professionally.

How Coaching Works

Coaching is a multi-faceted approach to develop higher effectiveness, new competencies, better balance, and resilience… all with more ease, joy, and fulfillment. A good coach will work with you, from the beginning, to define specific, observable outcomes. With these in place, both parties can measure their success. Movement toward these outcomes becomes the central focus of the coaching relationship. {See sample coaching outcomes}

A coach is a candid, skillful, and objective partner focused on you and your development. With this partner, you are invited into deep examination, resulting in sometimes dramatic shifts in view, and possibilities you’d never before seen or considered. The benefits?

• Clear, honest, and direct feedback
• Knowledge and practical guidance
• Learning strategies that develop new competencies
• Accountability and structure for following through 
• Sustainable, visible shifts towards new effectiveness and capacity in the areas of focus
• More joy and fulfillment
• Better life balance, with increased resilience and resourcefulness.

In coaching, ideas will sometimes come from you, and other times through your coach. However, acting on them is always your choice. The coach is a member of your team, and a partner in your learning.

When Should You Use a Coach?

Life’s challenges provide great opportunities to learn and grow. Engaging in a coaching partnership allows you to make the most of these opportunities, finding greater freedom and real choices in challenging times. Use coaching during periods of transition, development, change and renewal in your life:

• A promotion or challenging new assignment
• Planning or implementing career change
• The need for new capacities and approaches
• Business growth and changes
• Personal transitions around relationships, geographic moves, and loss
• The need for renewal or better life balance
• Developing your authentic leadership style
• Personal resilience during stress and change

Does Coaching Sound Right for You?

Here are some next steps:

Explore sample coaching outcomes and results.

Learn how to select the right coach.

Read my letter to prospective clients.

Answer frequently asked questions about coaching.

Assess your readiness for coaching.

Set up a time to talk.