WHAT IS COACHING?
• Coaching can drastically improve your performance in any given area of your life by exploring where you are now, where you want to be in the future and how to get you there. • In a basic sense, this is achieved by your coach guiding you to set challenging yet achievable goals and plan actions that will lead to an accomplishment of these goals. • We provide honest but constructive feedback to help you realise your true capabilities and to achieve the outcomes you want.• We work wholly from your perspective, beliefs and cultural background, understand how you are motivated, what your strengths and weaknesses might be and seek to improve both.• With coaching you will gain clarity of what is stopping you from attaining the results you desire, question your current way of thinking and overcome those barriers. • We take a non-judgmental standpoint and provide 100% confidentiality; only in this kind of environment will you truly flourish. • We firmly believe that people are naturally highly
My role as a coach is to help you find out what you want in your life, assist you in exploring ways of reaching those goals, and giving support and encouragement as you put your plans into action. As an NLP Coach I can also help you identify and change limiting beliefs, behaviours and thought patterns that may hold you back. Coaching is different from consulting or therapy: A consultant is an expert paid to offer advice. As a coach I am not an expert in how to run your life – you are! I will help you find your own answers by asking tough questions and getting you to look at your situation in new ways. I may offer suggestions and exercises from time to time, but they are just that – suggestions. If you feel they are not right for you then say so, and we can work out something that is more appropriate for your needs. Therapy is based on the assumption that there is something wrong with you that needs fixing. Most therapies examine your past to find out what went wrong, in order to ‘fix’
Coaching is process through which clients identify their strengths and values, clarify their personal or professional goals and overcome any obstacles. Coaching is a partnership co-created by the coach and the client to fit the client’s needs, so no coaching relationship is the same. Through this partnership, a coach helps clients stay on track and focused, keeps clients accountable to their commitments, and uncovers and mobilizes clients’ inner strengths in order to achieve their goals and enhance their quality of life.
The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as “an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life… This [coaching] interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action. Coaching accelerates the client’s progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where clients are now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future, recognizing that results are a matter of the client’s intentions, choices and actions, supported by the coach’s efforts and application of the coaching process.” How does the process work? As your coach, we help you develop and implement action plans to assist you in attaining your desired vision and goals. Our process uses inquiry, assessment, reflection, dialogue, and specifi
Coaching is an art, not a science. Coaching is a strategic alignment being used by many professionals today, helping to narrow the gap between intentions and actions. Coaches are concerned with moving their clients forward towards specific goal orientated outcomes. This type of coaching assumes that everyone is capable of change and of intrinsically knowing the correct steps to make the desired change come about. The coach’s main role in this partnership is to act as a guide to keep the interaction, communication and sharing on track, moving the client forward towards their stated goals. Mastery in coaching comes from “being present,” from learning to read the flow of the session.
