How does the coaching session work?
You will choose the focus of discussion, while I listen and contribute observations and questions as well as concepts and principles which can assist you in generating possibilities and identifying actions. Through the coaching process the clarity that is needed to support the most effective actions is achieved.
This will accelerate your progress by providing greater focus and awareness of possibilities leading to more effective choices.
The process will concentrate on where you are now and what you are willing to do to get where you want to be in the future.
Coaching typically begins with a personal interview (either face-to-face or by teleconference call) to assess your current opportunities and challenges, define the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action, and establish specific desired outcomes.
Subsequent coaching sessions may be conducted in person or over the telephone, with each session lasting about 60 minutes.
Between scheduled coaching sessions, you may be asked to complete specific actions that support the achievement of your personally prioritized goals.
I may provide additional resources in the form of relevant articles, checklists, assessments, or models, to support your thinking and actions.
The duration of the coaching relationship varies depending on the individual’s personal needs and preferences. This is outlined with a contract between you and me.
What are the benefits of coaching?
You can expect to experience fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities, enhanced thinking and decision making skills, enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in carrying out your chosen work and life roles. Consistent with a commitment to enhancing your personal effectiveness, you can also expect to see appreciable results in the areas of productivity, personal satisfaction with life and work, and the achievement of personally relevant goals.
How long does a coach work with an individual?
The length of a coaching partnership varies depending on the individual’s needs and preferences. Factors that may impact the length of time include: the types of goals, the ways individuals like to work, the frequency of coaching meetings, and financial resources available to support coaching.
Within the partnership, what are the roles of the coach?
The role of the coach is to provide objective assessment and observations that fosters enhanced self-awareness and awareness of others, practice astute listening in order to gain a full understanding of your circumstances, be a sounding board in support of possibility thinking and thoughtful planning and decision making, champion opportunities and potential, encourage stretch and challenge in proportion with your personal strengths and aspirations, foster the shifts in thinking that reveal fresh perspectives, challenge blind spots in order to illuminate new possibilities, and support the creation of alternative scenarios. Finally, the coach maintains professional boundaries in the coaching relationship, including confidentiality.
And what are your roles as the client?
The role of the individual is to create the coaching agenda based on personally meaningful coaching goals, utilize assessment and observations to enhance self-awareness and awareness of others, envision personal success, assume full responsibility for personal decisions and actions, utilize the coaching process to promote possibility thinking and fresh perspectives, take courageous action in alignment with personal goals and aspirations, engage big picture thinking and problem solving skills, and utilize the tools, concepts, models and principles provided by the coach to engage effective forward actions.
What does coaching ask of an individual?
To be successful, coaching asks certain things of the individual, all of which begin with intention….
How is coaching distinct from therapy?
Coaching can be distinguished from therapy in a number of ways. First, coaching is a profession that supports personal and professional growth and development based on individual-initiated change in pursuit of specific actionable outcomes. These outcomes are linked to personal or professional success. Coaching is forward moving and future focused.
Therapy, on the other hand, deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within an individual or a relationship between two or more individuals. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past which hamper an individual's emotional functioning in the present, improving overall psychological functioning, and dealing with present life and work circumstances in more emotionally healthy ways. Therapy outcomes often include improved emotional/feeling states.
While positive feelings/emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one's work or personal life. The emphasis in a coaching relationship is on action, accountability and follow through.
