What is Coaching?
Coaching is a professional service providing clients with feedback, insights, and guidance from an outside vantage point. The profession of coaching is similar to the practice of a physician, attorney, or psychologist. The major difference is that coaching is an on-going collaborative partnership built on taking action. People hire a coach when they are making a career transition, starting a new business, feeling dissatisfied, finding child-rearing challenging, re-evaluating life choices, or simply looking for personal and professional breakthroughs.
Bottom line: Coaches assist you to execute the actions necessary to achieve your goals. Clients have control over the results they achieve through coaching, because they design the goals, and the coaching process assures that they will achieve them.
Why Hire a Coach?
Life coaches assist you to: overcome obstacles and fears, focus on solutions, have someone to just listen or bounce off new ideas, discover truths about you, and how you can improve, accomplish more than you thought possible, and achieve balance in your personal, work and family lives. A coach works directly with you to uncover new ways to help you live your best life.
How Does Coaching Work?
Typically, coaching sessions take place via phone, e-mail, or face-to-face visits in 45 minute increments. You may sign up for a single coaching session, or for a number of sessions. You and your coach will develop an ongoing relationship and partnership, based upon trust. A coach focuses his or her full energy and attention on you and achieving your goals.
Your coach will provide life options, new perspectives, encouragement, and concentrated attention to give you the insight, and confidence to take life-improving actions towards your goals. Your coach will assist you to identify your self-imposed obstacles and further assist you to overcome them to reach your goals.
Can You Afford Coaching?
Many people who do well with coaching see life-changing results. Clients tell us that the benefits of coaching expand beyond personal transformation into family, work and financial transformation as well. For example, parents with child behavioral problems find coaching transforms relationships with their spouse and their children. Another example might be include a career change, whereby co-workers, family members and spouse's also experience transformation. Perhaps your experiencing too much stress and just need ideas on how to better prioritize your time. Some clients might gain an increase in salary or revenue simply by redesigning their daily schedules.
One study by MetrixGlobal suggests that clients who go through the executive coaching process achieve a 500% or more return on their investment. Imagine what life coaching can do for you!
Get started now, e-mail Kari Pendray today at kpendray@comcast.net |