What is Coaching Anyway?

Coaching is a working relationship where the coach uses specific techniques to guide the client in making career and life choices that are meaningful and purposeful. Coaching is goal and action-oriented. Its focus is on the present and the future - not the past. Coaching can help a person alter the way they view the world and themselves. Ultimately this impacts how the client makes decisions. It's about choice and change.

It's Your Choice

Would you like to gain more control over some aspect of your life or work? Have you wanted to achieve certain goals, but seem to be stuck in a rut? Are you asking yourself "is this all there is?" Are you integrating work into your life in a way that suits your values? Do you simply want more time for yourself and/or your family but can't seem to find it?

Whether you are a corporate manager working 70 hours a week and getting little personal satisfaction from your work, someone who is ready for a change but doesn't know where to start, a small business owner who realizes you need more focus to be successful, or someone who is just tired of feeling burnt out, you have some very important choices to make.

You can be the master of your fate, and make conscious decisions about the life you want to create. You have the power to change your life. It's never too late. On the other hand, you can also choose to be a victim, a puppet or a procrastinator forever. It's your choice.

If you want to make conscious decisions, a coach can help you design a new way of working and living. A coach gives you objective and honest feedback that others may not have the courage to give you, and coaches can help you anticipate obstacles and overcome them. Coaches provide tools for change and encouragement to take positive action to build the life and work you want.

The Coach's Role

The role of coach is multi-dimensional. It is our job to listen very carefully, hearing underneath the symptoms, and to help you identify core issues and build a plan based upon the context of your unique life, personality, values and talents. We will make agreements about specific actions that you will make to begin the process of change. We believe in balancing the pursuit of dreams with practical choices to achieve your own definition of success.

The Client's Role

Your role is to be open to feedback, fully participate in the entire process, and be accountable for the agreements you make. Ultimately it isn't only the coach who makes the coaching process successful - it is fundamentally the responsibility of the client to implement the action plan and move forward in his or her own life.

Areas of Focus

These are just some of the areas your coach may work with you on:

• Clarifying Priorities & Values
• Self Assessment - Skills, Competencies and Talents
• Identifying Situations or People That Are Holding You Back
• Putting a Stake in the Ground
• Understanding Your Relationship With Time
• Saying No & Saying Yes
• Redirecting Your Career
• Courage and Fear
• Expectations of Self and Others
• Language and Communications
• Presence
• Making it Happen