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Coaching, whether for career or
business, existential questions or relationships, begins
with alignment. Coaches get you, your actions and
thoughts, and your very lifestyle aligned with
who you say you are, or want to be. That is, we
will get the way you live, think, act, and work
integrated with the core values and goals you say you
have. If you don't know what your ultimate values
and goals are, then we coach that first.
It's not by magic that our coaches help clients achieve
their goals. From the practical and action-oriented to
the great questions, our coaches draw from the best of
management consulting, best business practices,
motivational and cognitive psychology, sports
performance, ethics and spirituality, the Socratic
dialogue and philosophy.
 Read more about the details in
Success
Coaching Process and Pricing.
We begin by getting to know you as a person,
and allowing you to get to know us. This process
starts in the free
coaching consultation and continues to lesser
degrees beyond it. We also begin to formally
identify your goals and values, particularly through
such powerful tools as our
Strategic
Life Planning Process: The Creation of the Future
Self. After we
listen to who and where you want to be, we perform a
gap analysis: what is the gap between where
you are and where you want to be?
We'll close the gap by eradicating your
self-limiting thinking, reducing stress and improving
efficiency, and getting you to stretch and try
new things and ways of being. We'll put in place
strategies to reach your goals, tactical steps to carry
out your strategy, and day to day accountability to keep
you focused on the tactics, the strategy, the goal --
all while remaining aligned with and true to your
values.
More on Coaching
If your
definition of a coach is taken from high school
or college sports, where the athlete is subordinate to
the coach and can even be dismissed by him, then the
term "coaching" may be a bit of a misnomer for
you. Why? Well, a personal coach or an executive coach
is more akin to the coach of a pro tennis player or
track star: in these professional relationships, coach
and client are co-equals and partners, and it's
the client who decides how long the coach stays on the
team.
Coaching
is . . . a collaborative partnership of equals based on
commitment to each other and to the client's success in
personal and business goals
Coaching
can also work because
a good coach fulfills several human fundamentals:
1. The longing
for an ally or partner on one's path,
particularly during challenging times.
2. The longing
to be and feel understood.
3. The curious
but true need for permission to change,
particularly if doing so could mean a loss of
understanding by, or even growing away from, old
friends.
4. The power
of commitment and accountability, wherein a person
wanting something strives harder for it because of a
promise to another.
Coaching Briefly
Defined
Who is the
Client?
The
Relationship, Briefly
Designed
For Clarity and Support in Transitions
Fundamental
Skills, Not Subject Matter Expertise
A Coach is the
Modern-Day Ally
Why It
Works
Service
Delivery
Related Article: Feroce Coaching Process and
Pricing
Coaching Briefly
Defined
One definition, according to the
International Coach Federation, is this:
Professional
Coaching is a professional partnership between a
qualified coach and an individual or team that
supports the achievement of extraordinary results,
based on goals set by the individual or team. Through
the process of coaching, individuals focus on the
skills and actions needed to successfully produce
their personally relevant results.
The individual or
team chooses the focus of conversation, while the
coach listens and contributes observations and
questions as well as concepts and principles which can
assist in generating possibilities and identifying
actions. . . . Coaching accelerates the individual's
or team's progress by providing greater focus and
awareness of possibilities leading to more effective
choices. Coaching concentrates on where individuals
are now and what they are willing to do to get where
they want to be in the future. . . . [R]esults are a
matter of the individual's or team's intentions,
choices and actions, supported by the coach's efforts
and application of coaching skills, approaches and
methods.
Coaching is
also:
● A relatively new
profession dedicated to fomenting change in people and
organizations
● One of the few
partnerships in which both partners are focused on the
success of one partner
● An effective way to
smooth transitions and develop creative solutions
● Not ever about
clients being pushed against their will
As a profession,
coaching enhances the traditional functions of friends,
mentors, or advisors by adding several effective
features:
● A structured relationship with
clear goals
● Advanced techniques
and procedures designed to effect change
● Motivated clients
who know they want something, even if they're not yet
sure what it is
● A coach skilled in
ferreting out a client's true goals and identifying how
the client can most effectively use his or her natural
talents to reach them
Coaching begins from a place of generosity of will
and spirit. It is fundamentally about
expanding your awareness and making you accountable to
yourself. We expand
clients' awareness and then help them to be
accountable to what they have learned about
themselves. It can be a
sophisticated form of teaching, mentoring, and partnering in an
enterprise with laser focus: your personal or
professional (or both) development. We teach you
ways to find clarity, we guide you to awareness of you
true situations (including what's blocking you), and we
show you how to take action based on what you
know. Whether as career coaches or executive
coaches, we coach effectively based on both our innate
and learned coaching abilities and our own knowledge and
experience.
To be
coached, then, is to receive committed, experienced,
and insightful aid in
(1) reaching clarity about matters large and
small, (2) expanding your awareness about what
holds you back, and, crucially, (3) being guided toward
acting on that clarity to make desired and
lasting change in your life. For some, the best way to
know coaching is by its effects: via testimonials or sample
coaching conversations.
Sometimes
we will just help you over that cliff. But only after
you've told us you're ready, looked back, and given us
the thumbs-up sign.
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