WHAT IS COACHING?
Coaching is a transformative process for personal and professional awareness,
discovery and growth. (International Association of Coaching)
- Coaching is a Partnership
- Coaching is a Professional Service
- Coaching is a Success Tool
Coaching is a Partnership:
- Using synergy to spark your creativity, a most cost effective way to add value
- Using support to provide structure and help maintain your momentum
- Providing personal and business strategies to accelerate your success
Coaching is a professional Service
- You work with a trained professional, who is an expert in achievement.
- You determine the focus, with the coach as your partner
- You may begin or end the process whenever you wish
Coaching is a Success Tool
- You engage a coach to achieve results faster, to add measurable value
- You use a coach to master a skill set
- You use a coach to accomplish specific goals
Typical Coaching Goals
• Increase earnings
• Develop skills
• Start a business
• Create something
• Make a change
• Solve a problem
Coaching is a three step process:
- Select a significant value based goal, your best chance of success
- Design the right strategy to achieve the goal in half the time
- Get into action with a partner to build momentum to carry you forward
You work in three key areas:
- Your special skills, gifts, talents and resources
- Your personal, professional and business goals
- Your best strategies to achieve your goals
HOW CAN YOU GET THE MOST OUT OF COACHING?
- Select the right coach
- Work effectively with your coach
- Position yourself for success
Select the right coach for you
- Interview the coach, are you compatible?
- Share your #1 goal or challenge, does your coach understand?
- Ask the coach to share a strategy, does this strategy fit you?
Work effectively with your coach
- Understand that your coach is your partner
- Set goals that challenge you
- Try new approaches and experiment
Position yourself for success
- Simplify to increase opportunities by reducing roles, projects, tasks, and expenses
- Identify and eliminate obstacles such as complacency, resistance, fears and unmet needs
- Learn faster by networking with high achievers
- Embrace new ideas
NEXT STEP:
Spend a little time with me – it is free and confidential.- Who you are…your special skills, gifts, talents and resources
- What you want…your personal, professional and business goals
- How to get what you want…the most progressive strategies and valuable skill sets
Work as you work best
- Coaching is done by phone or in person…usually by half-hour tele-coaching sessions; one per week
- Coaching usually runs 6-24 months…results begin to occur immediately
- Coaching fee typically run $200-$400 per month…the fee includes the weekly session and additional support
Interesting Fact…Clients share their goals and dreams more fully with a coach than with their family, friends or spouse.
Source: International Coach Federation
How can you get the most out of coaching?
- Selecting the right coach
- Working effectively with your coach
- Arranging your life for success
Select the right coach for you
- Share your #1 goal or challenge…does your coach understand?
- Ask the coach to share a strategy…is this strategy a fit for you?
- Interview the coach…is this the coach for me?
Work effectively with your coach
- Set goals that stretch you…coaching works best when there is a gap
- Be open to trying new approaches…you develop and evolve faster when you experiment continuously
- Educate you coach how to coach you perfectly…coaching is in-process synergy development; your coach is your partner
Arrange your life for success
- Increase opportunities by simplifying…reduce roles, projects, complexity, tasks, chores and expenses
- Learn faster by crafting your environments…put yourself among new people and new ideas
- Eliminate whatever is holding you back…mediocrity, resistance, fears and unmet needs.
Next Step:
Spend a little time with me…it’s free and confidential
- Share your business dream or share a business problem…I will listen
- Let me ask you a couple of questions
- Allow me to share a strategy or new idea with you
Thank you for your time and please let me know how I can help
“Clients share their goals and dreams more fully with a coach than with their family, friends or spouse”. International Coach Federation