What is coaching?

Coaching is a new technology of personal and professional development based on concepts from sports, business, spirituality, psychology and organizational development. It's for passionate people who want more from their personal and business lives. A coach helps them set larger, more rewarding goals, develop a strategy to achieve them and provide support throughout the process. It's not unlike having a personal trainer or like an athletic coach... transformational, but in a business or personal sense. The achievement of goals is something that comes more quickly as a result of the coaching partnership.

 

Why does coaching work?

Coaching works when there are two factors present:

 

• The client is willing to grow, and

• There is a gap between where they are now and where they want to be

 

Successful coaching clients know the value of sharing ideas with someone who understands them and is objective enough not to be biased or self-serving. Talking about options with someone who can listen, is often enough to have it all become very clear.

Coaching works because of three unique features:

 

• SYNERGY: Client and coach become a team, focusing on the client's goals and needs and accomplishing more than the client alone.

• STRUCTURE: With a coach, the client takes more actions, thinks bigger and gets the job done, thanks to the accountability, guidance and leadership the coach provides.

• EXPERTISE: The coach knows how to help business people make better decisions, set the best goals, develop new skills for communicating and restructure their professional and personal lives to support living into their greatness.

 

Where do you start with a coach?

Most coaches begin with a special client meeting or call to get to know each other. The coach wants to hear about the client's goals, needs and problems. The client wants to get comfortable with the coach. During this meeting, both parties design a list of goals and a game plan to reach these goals.

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What happens when you begin a contract with a coach?

• You take yourself and what you want more seriously, and recognize the patterns and conditioned behaviors that create obstacles.

• You take more effective and focused actions immediately.

• You stop putting up with stuff that gets in your way.

• You create momentum to achieve more of what you want in your life and your work.

• You set personal goals that are clear, meet your needs and honor who you are.

• You identify and eliminate the barriers that get in the way of the achievement of your goals.

• You communicate about what you need and want from the others in a more responsible way.

 

How can a Manager/Executive use a coach?

Coaching creates an environment where there is freedom from judgement and freedom from expectations that executive behave according to typical corporate mandates. In this environment it is safe to question, to appear vulnerable, to observe, to explore, experiment, to learn and change. That allows the executive to use the coach...

To reach high targets and quotas. Accomplishing this consistently requires a manager who also coaches a team to work together to reach extraordinary goals.

 

• For business planning, budgeting and goal-setting.

• To integrate business and personal life for balance.

• To prioritize actions and projects.

• For training, development and managing staff.

• To turn around a difficult situation.To handle business or personal problems.