What is coaching?
Coaching
is a partnership designed to help you achieve success -- however you define
success in your life. Each partnership is different depending on the client's
goals. Coaching includes clarifying vision and purpose to addressing behaviors
and tolerations that create barriers to success to problem solving and
more. The relationship is strictly confidential.
As a client,
your coach will help you:
- Implement
the plan of action, working through the inevitable changes and any obstacles
- Maintain
a healthy balance between your personal and professional life
- Keep looking
ahead to take advantage of opportunities that are just now formulating
- Bring
out your personal best, keeping focused on your needs, values
and vision.
Why does
coaching work?
Coaching
works because it brings out your best. A coach believes you have the answers
and is trained to bring them out (painlessly!) Specifically, this is what
a coach will do with you during your coaching sessions:
Listen.
A coach listens fully. You are the focus. The coach listens to what
you say, what you are trying to say and what you are not saying.
Share.
A coach will share ideas, thoughts and views on your situation, dilemma
or opportunity, speaking the truth from her or his perspective.
Suggest.
A coach wants a lot for you. A coach wants you to be healthy, happy
and successful. A coach wants you to be on a strong financial track.
A coach wants you to enjoy your family and friends. A coach wants you
to have a life that inspires others and yourself. A coach believes in
your greatness. To that end, your coach will make requests and suggestions
to guide and challenge you.
A coach
works with you to:
- Brainstorm
options for effective action
- Update
or expand your vision and goals
- Increase
your ability to see high leverage opportunities
- Find balance
in life between work, family and community
- Improve
communication and languaging skills
- Develop
your management and executive leadership teams
How is coaching
different from consulting? Therapy? Sports coaching? A best friend?
Consulting.
Coaching is not an expert model of consulting. The coach facilitates
a process of reflection and action. A coach also stays with the client
to help implement the new skills, changes and goals to make sure they
really happen.
Therapy.
Coaching is not therapy. We don't work on "issues" or get
into the past or deal much with understanding human behavior. We leave
that up to the client to know and figure out while we help them move
forward and set personal and professional goals that will give them
the life they really want.
Sports.
Coaching includes several principles from sports coaching, like teamwork,
going for the goal, being your best. But unlike sports coaching, most
professional coaching is not competition or win/lose based. We strengthen
the client's skills versus help them beat the other team. It's win/win.
Best
friend. A best friend is wonderful to have. But is your best friend
a professional who you will trust to advise you on the most important
aspects of your life and/or business? Have a best friend and a coach.
Coaching
Improves Performance
- Productivity
- Quality
- Organizational
strength
- Customer
service
- Employee
retention
- Cost reductions
- Bottom-line
profitability
- Teamwork
- Working
relationships with direct reports, immediate supervisors, peers and
clients
- Job satisfaction
- Conflict
reduction
- Organizational
commitment
- An average
return on investment of 5.7 times the initial investment in a typical
executive coaching assignment or a return of more than $100,000.
Maximizing
the Impact of Executive Coaching, Manchester Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2001.
Results based on a recent study of 100 executives.
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