How Does Coaching Work?
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Coaching
helps ‘facilitate’ from within you the
‘best’
person you can be.
It is
about tapping into and
accelerating the change and growth you desire … to
achieve the success that is within your capacity to reach.
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» Who
uses and benefits from Business and Personal Coaching?
» Business skills and expertise
are one thing, personal factors are the key !
» The Role of Business Coaching
– in Partnership with You
» Benefits and Outcomes for
You, the Client
» The Process - Designing
Your Coaching Program
Who Uses and Benefits from Business
and Personal Coaching?
People
who seek out Coaches are individuals in business, professional and/or
leadership roles who recognise the value of Coaching
support in helping them to be more effective in both
their business and personal lives and in
reaching their full potential.
They are usually people who are ready to take a good look at themselves
and want to change what is not working for them any more.
They
want more out of Life and seek proactive
solutions in helping them unleash their true
‘inner’ potential.
Others have already reached a very satisfactory level of achievement,
but are now ready to move to their next level, and achieve more -
whether building their business to the next level, or branch out into
social entrepreneuring activities.
They all have one thing in common – they are people looking
to improve their lives in some way:
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Improve their performance / success / achievements
» Overcome obstacles and
blockages to achieving higher levels
» Be better organized and less
stressed / handle stress more positively
» Find more meaning in their
Lives, happiness and fulfillment
» Achieve greater abundance /
prosperity / create and grow their wealth
Business
Skills and Expertise
are One Thing, Personal Factors are the Key !
Whether you
run a small business, or even a new micro home based business,
or even a not so small medium-sized
business, or even if you are CEO of a large corporation, you
constantly face the challenge of developing and
taking your business to its next level.
Whether big or small, you face your own business
challenges, as well as those of the people who work with
you, or for you, or who you deal with in customer/client relationships,
business or strategic partnerships, and supplier and outsourcing
relationships.
Not only do you face your own business challenges,
behind each one there is a link to a personal challenge.
Each and every one of us is a human being with a complex set of
personal circumstances and issues.
Equally, behind every small and
medium
sized business, or corporate, or
organisation, we have individual human beings, each and every one
of them, with their own set of business
and personal challenges. They form the essential patchwork
making up the
businesses and organizations of which we are a part. Every
one has the potential to have an impact on your business.
You have the power in your hands to
influence the shape of that impact and channel it into
its most positive form – with the help of Coaching
support.
The
Role of Coaching
– in
Partnership with You
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Your
Coach works with you to look at where you are today
and helps you get
to where you want to go.
In partnership with you, your Coach helps you close that gap.
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Personal
Skills
It is not simply about business skills and expertise, although these
are vitally important also.
Coaching
is about empowering
and strengthening you as an individual.
It is about increasing your level of Self Awareness and
‘Emotional Intelligence’. Coaching helps
you discover
your better or ‘Higher’ Self and what you are
capable of
doing and achieving.
The
coaching process focuses on helping you get very clear on what your
goals and true values are. Through insight, it is making sure
that the two are in alignment.
When goals
and values
are in alignment, focus and energy can be fully harnessed for powerful
forward movement. Your Coach helps you develop a do-able, step-by-step Action
Plan that will move you into action.
Coaching
can support you with your personal
‘human’ desires
- to be true to your ‘authentic’ self, to integrate
career
/ work and lifestyle into a healthy blend, and to find meaningful
ways of practicing ‘Self Care’ and replenishing and
rejuvenating yourself.
A Coach
approaches each individual with the belief that:
» You have the answer or solution within you and it is the
Coach’s role to
help you
‘facilitate’ that from within yourself.
» You are a special individual
with your
own natural gifts and talents.
» You can perform
at a higher level.
The
Coaching process is creative and lateral. There is no right
or wrong answer. The Coaching relationship is undertaken without any
judgment or preconceived opinions on the part of the Coach, and is
based on trust, dignity and compassion. The relationship
between the Coach and Coachee is an ‘equal’
partnership,
with ‘chemistry’, understanding and unconditional support playing an important role.
Business Skills
Depending
on your needs, if business
skills
and structure are also required to work ‘on your
business’ to assist with business growth or restructuring,
these
can also be combined and work in tandem with the personal skills area for dual forward movement.
(See my
credentials in the About Me section by clicking here )
Benefits
and Outcomes for You,
the Client
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One-on-one Coaching
is private and confidential |
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Gain new insights |
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Renewed energy and motivation to take action |
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Clarity of direction, focus and perspective |
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Map the ‘path to walk’ with
clear action steps and tasks |
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Manage stress more positively |
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Greater calm, balance and Self Care |
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A model for ongoing Self Coaching |
Within
Your Business or Organization Setting - |
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Exploration of your own values and ethics and
alignment with those of your work environment |
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Identify and overcome your own blockages to
further success and achievement |
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Achieve your next performance level and success |
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Goal Setting |
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Practical Action Oriented Achievement Plans |
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Find greater balance between your Career demands
and your Lifestyle desires |
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Supporting Yourself and
Others -
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Learn
how to more effectively ‘Coach’ your employees and
team/s
to greater levels of performance, success and satisfaction |
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Support ‘star’ performers in
your management team to reach their higher potential |
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Deal more effectively with Organization Transition
and Change
during periods of Growth and/or Downsizing |
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Life/Career Transition to New Areas of Endeavour
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The
Process - Designing Your
Coaching Program
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Coaching is a client driven process. After initial
consultation, your Coach designs an individually-tailored program
around you and your specific needs and goals.
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Together, we
work interactively
to focus clearly on identifying the areas requiring work –
the directions you wish to pursue, goals you wish to achieve, obstacles
and blockages to overcome and then the practical and do-able action
steps to ‘making things happen’.
Your Coach
will recommend and guide you regarding the focus for each
session. You will also actively make suggestions and choose the issue
focus for each session. Your Coach will listen and guide you
with questions and provide feedback and observations.
This interactive exchange
facilitates
and creates greater clarity, focus and awareness of choice that in turn
accelerates your progress and moves you forward into action.
Flexibility
is built in to ensure that the most appropriate focus is
addressed depending on the progress with each session.
The Structure
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Clear
identification of key values relevant to your business, career and
personal circumstances -assessment and alignment |
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Identifying what is working and what is not working |
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Identifying and removing the ‘energy
sappers’ |
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Refining direction and assessing and focusing on
business and personal areas to be pursued |
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Gaining clarity – personal and business |
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Analyzing the business and assessing requirements
(‘business diagnostic’) |
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Goal Setting – long term, medium term and
short-term |
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Prioritizing options |
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Establishing time frames |
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Action planning and ‘doing’ |
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Identifying practical, bite-size, do-able action
steps and tasks |
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Feedback, Monitoring and Review |
Depending
on your needs, a number of review and assessment methods are used -
developed by myself, as well as other coaching systems.
I also
use the Intercept Coaching System (questionnaire and survey driven
coaching system that systematically provides a picture of areas out of
alignment and requiring attention). We are a member of The
Coaches Consortium and trained and accredited in the Intercept Coaching
System.
Duration
Coaching
programs are of 3, 6 and 12 months’ duration and
comprise weekly or fortnightly face-to-face sessions of 1 hour to 1.5
hours, as well as telephone coaching sessions of 30 minutes to 1 hour
(as well as shorter needs driven in-between calls). Email coaching is also built into the programs.
Some
larger organisations opt for longer term commitment to a 2 year
program.
Programs
of shorter duration, of say for example, 1 month/4 weeks can also be
designed and negotiated.
Programs
consisting of telephone coaching only are also available.
Coaching
is a client driven process and your program is designed specifically
for you. Coaching programs are also flexible so you can
choose the one that best suits your needs.
Your Investment
Coaching
program fee structures flexibly cater to the individual self-funding
their own coaching program, as well as the corporate organisation that
is investing in the development of executives and employees.
Your
investment can range from:
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$385
per month to $850 per month for individuals in small businesses or
personal and life coaching |
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$900
per month to $1,500 per month for larger businesses and organizations
(corporate, government, associations) |
The
fee will depend on the type of coaching, the level of support required
and how many coaching sessions per month you choose.
Reduced rate savings can also be offered for longer term programs of 3,
6 and 12 months’ duration.
To discuss which Coaching program best suits you and your budget,
please contact
me.
Complimentary
Exploratory Coaching Session
An
initial exploratory telephone coaching session (valued at $250.oo) is
offered for FREE.
Book
your complimentary session NOW!
As a Bonus - you will also receive a FREE
subscription to my regular e-newsletter (valued at $97.00 per year).
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