What Is Coaching?
Coaching is a powerful partnership designed to forward and enhance the lifelong process of learning, productivity, effectiveness and fulfillment. Its purpose is to assist you to produce breakthrough results in your areas of interest while becoming a happier more fulfilled human being.
Coaching is a gift you give yourself. It’s lonely at the top. Who is there to appreciate you and your efforts? Who is there to turn to in confidence to share your most precious hopes and dreams and your most vexing and humbling challenges? Who is there to celebrate your accomplishments along the way?
Coaching is not remedial, it is a high leverage best practice! All of the top performers in every field have coaches of one kind or another.
Coaching is not therapy. Therapy is focused on the past and deals with various degrees of “mental illness” where coaching is focused on the present and the future and is for people that are basically healthy.
Life Coaching is about peak performance in all 8 core focus areas of your life…
- Career/Business
- Marriage/Significant Other
- Health & Well Being
- Spirituality/Personal Growth
- Finances
- Community/Family/Friends
- Physical Environment
- Fun & Recreation
“Professional Coaching is an ongoing partnership that helps clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.”
—The International Coach Federation
A coach is someone who helps you…
- Get clear about what you want to be, do and have in your life and work
- Be accountable and keep you moving forward toward your goals and dreams
- Get clear about your challenges and their root causes
- Troubleshoot and create effective strategies and solutions to overcome barriers
- Get unstuck when you “hit the wall”
- Get organized around your specific objectives
- Take more effective action and be more productive
- Learn new concepts, tools, strategies for living and working more effectively
- Celebrate your victories and learn from your setbacks
“A coach is a knowledgeable independent observer who inquires and listens deeply, gives feedback, teaches skills, expands awareness and provides any support needed to improve “player” performance.”
—Dave Buck
Now that you have a better idea of what “coaching” is, click here to learn more about how I work: How I Work >>>
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