Professional Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organisations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.
Life coaching is a holistic process which considers any and all aspects of the clients life situation. This includes mind, body and spiritual aspects.
In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action.
The Coach and client, together, agree a plan of action (objectives), with a view to achieving success, as defined by the client in the first session.
This is only possible with both Coach and Client demonstrating 100% comittment with the agreed amount of coaching sessions.
In life coaching there is no such thing as failure. There is only the result of an action.
• Coaching accelerates the client's progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice.
• Coaching focuses on where clients are now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future.
What can I benefit from coaching?
You can expect a fresh experience and perspective on personal challenges and opportunities, enhanced thinking and decision making skills, enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in carrying out your goal.. Consistent with a commitment to enhancing your personal effectiveness, you should also expect to see results in the areas of productivity, personal satisfaction with life and work, and the achievement of personally relevant goals.
Is coaching is right for you?
If your considering how you could benefit from coaching, start by summarising what you would expect to accomplish in coaching. When someone has a fairly clear idea of the desired outcome, a coaching partnership can be a useful tool for developing a strategy for how to achieve that outcome with greater ease.
Since coaching is a partnership, also ask yourself if you find it valuable to collaborate, to have another viewpoint and to be asked to consider new perspectives. Also, ask yourself if you are ready to devote the time and the energy to making real changes in your work or life. If the answer to these questions is yes, then coaching may be a beneficial way for you to grow and develop
Life Coaching isn't...
Counselling or therapy. In general, life coaching is sought by individuals who are in good health. Indeed, a professional coach on learning their client has a medical issue are duty bound to advise a client to seek appropriate treatment with an appropriate professional. Along with financial advice and legal situations, these are areas are ‘off limits to any professional Life Coach’, unless qualified in these fields.
