What is Coaching?
Coaching is quickly becoming one of the leading tools that successful people use to live extraordinary lives. Through regular coaching sessions, clients identify what is most important to them and align their thoughts, words, and actions accordingly. The coach, I work with the client to identify what they want personally and professionally, and to support them in achieving a life that they really want and love.
Having a life you love starts with gaining clarity on your values, enabling more meaningful choices and consistent action. Your commitment to your life through coaching offers a means for more balance, joy, intimacy, energy, financial abudnance, focus and action in every area of your life.
Your Coach Will:
- Encourage you to set goals that you truly want
- Ask you to do more than you may have done on your own
- Help you focus better in order to produce results more quickly
- Provide you with the tools, support and structure to accomplish more
How Is Coaching Different From Therapy?
Coaching is not therapy, which goes into depth about various issues, usually dealing with the past. To quote Kevin Hogan, Therapy is about getting from -10 to 0. Coaching is about getting from 0 to +10.
How Is Coaching Different From Consulting?
Consulting generally consists of giving the client answers. There isn’t a great degree of focus on teaching the client how to do the excercise himself. As a consultant for many years, I can assure you that coming back to give the same answer over is a substantial revenue source. :-)
Coaching is more action-oriented and focuses primarily on teaching the client how to be more effecive both in the present and future.
Your coach enables you to determine your own answers through the work done in the coaching parthernship.
Who Works With A Coach?
Entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals and people in transitions are some of the people who typically work with a coach. Regardless of their professional endeavor or place in life, all of my clients have one thing in common: they are all successful, resourceful, and intelligent individuals who want to get even more out of their lives.
What professional athlete hasn’t used a coach to win? Tiger Woods is already one of the best, and yet he understands the value that comes from having someone work directly with him, someone to point out things he can’t see, someone to keep encouraging and challenging him to achieve his greatest potential. That’s who your coach is for you. Coaching is like having a personal trainer for your life.
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September 14th, 2005 at 6:33 pm
Just a quick question………how does the person recieving the coaching respond to coachs whw are trained to only give negative feedback. There’s something good about everyone, I believe and we build on our stengths. Negative feedback seems to come from people who believe there way is correct so you must be a “mess up”.
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October 21st, 2005 at 5:39 pm
I am thinking about hiring a coach and have a couple of questions.
1/ Is there an accredidation process or standard coaches must obtain? or How does one know if a proposed coach is qualified to coach?
2/ How much should a coach cost?
3/ How does coaching work?
Thanks,
DP
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December 4th, 2005 at 9:49 am
A coah is an objective orientated.They have the ability to see things clearly before we can even start to implement.
The experience that they have will encourage them to be proactive.
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January 27th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Mary,
My answer to you would be to fire that coach and find someone who you are comfortable with and who works with your strengths. This way you become even stronger. If you try to work on your weaknesses and avoid your strengths or not work on them as much as you can, you are on your way to being average in my opinion.
Build on your strengths and become the best you, you can become. If your weaknesses are a real problem for you, team up with someone who has those as their strengths.