Coaching

Coaching is like a partnership. You work together closely with a coach in a thought-provoking process that stirs up your creativity, fuels your personal growth, and inspires you to maximize your professional potential.

Coaching is a process that aims to help you:

achieve your ambitions, goals and objectives.
clarify your purpose and passion.
remain accountable to yourself for your progress.

focus on your inherent strengths and existing skillsets.
boost your performance (from good to great).
enhance your personal and professional well-being.
unlock your full potential.

Change is hard. The point of coaching is to help you through the process of making business-enhancing and life-improving changes.

identify and overcome obstacles that are blocking, limiting, or slowing your progress.
explore knowledge, skills, and traits that can facilitate your progress.
discover opportunities for support from unexplored sources.

cope with specific challenges, and navigate difficult transitions.
make more positive choices and impactful decisions.
deal with issues and challenges before they become major problems.
face the the unknown and the uncertain more capably

engage in reflection.
celebrate your successes.

Coaching in life and work is distinct from mentoring, training, consulting, counseling, and therapy.

How does coaching work?

The 3 S’s that define a coaching SeSSion are that it is Straightforward, Supportive, and Solution-based.

Coaching is present- and future-oriented. It avoids dwelling on the past. It is all about next actions, moving forward, onwards and upwards.
Coaching is typically short-term.

Coaching is based on the principles of client confidentiality and mutual trust.
The coach and coachee are equal partners.

The point of coaching is to leave you feeling energized and empowered to improve.

Coaching sessions typically take place as a conversation between the coach and the coachee.
Coaching sessions are client-focused. A coachee begins with specific issues s/he wishes to address; and the coach will assist in identifying possible pathways and solutions, and in developing strategies to achieve them. Beyond that, coaching sessions do not have any fixed agenda.

The solution to the coachee’s issue lies within the coachee. It is the role of the coach to ask the right questions and help coachees discover answers for themselves. People, in general, are more likely to accept solutions they have come up with themselves (as opposed to having forced on them, or given to them as advice).

Coaching seeks to leverage positive resources, such as motivation, clarity, hope, authenticity, resilience, and optimism.
Coaches make use techniques such as: thoughtful and structured questioning, active listening, and nonjudgmental feedback in the form of summarizing, repeating, and checking in.