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Q. What
is business & personal coaching?
A. Coaching is an
interactive process that helps individuals and organizations to
develop more rapidly and produce more satisfying results. Coaches
work with clients in areas including business, career, finances,
health, and relationships. As a result of coaching, clients set
better goals, take more action, make better decisions, and more
fully use their natural strengths. Coaching is a method of inquiring
and questioning that assists another person to think more clearly,
gain better perspective and focus more effectively on their goals.
It provides the tools to enhance the process of accomplishment and
offers the client accountability for their actions. Professional
coaches are trained to listen and observe, to customize their approach
to the individual client's needs, and to elicit solutions and strategies
from the client. They believe that the client is naturally creative
and resourceful and that the coach's job is to provide support to
enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already
has. While the coach provides feedback and an objective perspective,
the client is responsible for taking the steps to produce the results
he or she wants.
Q. Why do people hire
a coach?
A. People hire a coach when they
are starting a new business, making a career transition, reevaluating
their life choices, or simply feeling ready for a personal or professional
breakthrough. My specialty is working with women who want to take
action and stay focused on achieving a big goal or vision. I work
with people who want to attract more business and with people who
want to get more out any area of their life; more growth, more money,
more ease, more time, more quality relationships, more satisfaction
and more fulfillment.
Q. Why does your coaching
work so well? A.
Because I listen to my clients with intention and I ask critical
questions that move my client's thinking forward towards the solution.
This process helps them stay focused and they are much more likely
to:
- Set goals that guide them toward the goal,
not move them away from it.
- Act on their choices or decisions.
- Develop new skills that translate into
more success.
- Tune into their intuition and remain true
to themselves and their values.
- Accomplish things that seemed unattainable.
- Acquire a sense of satisfaction in their
experiences.
Q. How long do your
individual clients work with you?
A. I recommend that my clients make a three-month
commitment to the process. Our coaching relationship develops over
time. My clients sometimes hire me for a specific project or for
unlimited periods of time.
Q. What do you
see as the most powerful aspect of your coaching?
A. The three main
areas that I've seen my clients benefit from is our coaching on
developing courage, staying focused and how to get the most from
the partnerships in their lives. And they do this by tapping into
their own inner wisdom. I believe that fear and lack of focus are
the two biggest obstacles that hold people back from getting what
they really want...in business and in life.
My coaching is founded in spirituality, therefore,
I address the whole person - body, mind and spirit. I use several
processes and tools that help my clients tap into their own inner
wisdom to reveal their own answers that produce action and deepen
their learning, which ultimately leads to more fulfillment, more
balance and a more effective process for living and realizing
their potential.
Q. How do you help
people create support and better results in their lives?
A. Coaching is based
on support. It is based on the concept that one plus one equals
three. When two people put their minds together and focus on an
outcome, new ideas arise that neither person would have thought
of alone. One of the ways I help people get better results in their
lives is to show them how to use coaching as a tool for support.
They learn how to best work with their own coach and how to create
supportive partnerships with their co- workers, families and friends.
I also show people how they operate with themselves. This allows
them to take a " meta-view " of their life. They can step back and
say things like, " ahh, now i can see how i could do this with less
struggle ".
Q.
How do I know if coaching is for me?
- Educate yourself on coaching. Hundreds
of articles have been written about it in the last 3-5 years.
- Know your objectives for working with
a coach.
- Interview three coaches before you decide
on one. Ask them about their experience, qualifications, skills,
and ask for at least 2 references.
- Remember, coaching is an important
relationship. There should be a connection between you and the
coach that "feels" right to you.
- Ask the coaches that you interview to
give you the name of another coach that might be a good fit
for you based on what they learned about you in the interview.
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