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What is Coaching?
Coaching is about getting the very best out of yourself and enabling you to make decisions that will improve your life.
What will it do for me?
Coaches are hired for very many different and diverse reasons, for example:
- Climbing the career ladder faster
- Feeling more fulfilled at work
- Improving family and partner relationships
- Seeking promotion
- Facing a career transition
- Increasing Income
- Getting more done in less time
- Require Leadership Development
- A desire to 'get sorted'.
The profession is growing and coaching is becoming widely acknowledged because people realise just how effective coaching is. Coaching is a relatively new and different profession - different to psychology, counselling or therapy.
The main difference between coaching and the above professions is that coaching doesn't claim to have the answers. The job of the coach is not to go over old ground, be past-orientated or to force-feed information, but to work with clients to help them find the answers themselves. Coaching is a unique method of personal development. Helping clients to reach their full potential through this approach, produces great satisfaction.
Give me more examples of the kind of issues people seek to address
- You have dreams which resist becoming reality
- One door closes and another must be chosen
- Career transitions - good or bad
- Your home is suddenly an empty nest
- Illness or disability forces adaption
- Work/Life imbalance
Who uses a coach?
Those who :
- Don't have enough time in their day to do the things that are most important to them, at work or home.
- Want to change their career or improve their current job situation.
- Want to improve a significant relationship or work relationships.
- Want to create a more balanced life.
- Feel frustrated and resentful about commitments they make because they constantly put other's needs before their own.
- Can't seem to slow their life down and find some peace of mind.
- Struggle to make ends meet and are financially frustrated.
- Want to live healthier lives, but can't seem to get started or just don't know how.
What are the most common issues with which clients hire coaches?
- Time Mgmt (80.5%)
- Career (74.3%)
- Business (73.8%)
- Relationships (58.6%)
- Wellness (51.9%)
- Spiritual (51.0%)
- Personal (45.2%)
- Goal-setting (39.5%)
- Financial (38.1%)
- Creativity (11.0%)
Source: University of Phoenix
How is coaching similar/different?
Coaching combines the best skills of many similar professions:
- like sports coaches, life coaches bring out the best in clients; unlike sports coaches, coaches focus on you rather than the team.
- like consultants, coaches give information and share their expertise; unlike consultants, coaches allow the client do the work.
- like motivational speakers, coaches motivate people to achieve their goals; unlike speakers, coaches interact with you.
- like friends, coaches are supportive and understanding; unlike friends, coaches can be objective.
- like personal trainers, coaches hold people accountable (coaches have been called personal trainers for the mind); unlike personal trainers, coaches are work on the personal not the physical.
The uniqueness of coaching is that it combines the best of all these professions while providing much, much more.
What is the difference between coaching and therapy?
- Coaching is about achievement; therapy is about healing
- Coaching is about action; therapy is about understanding
- Coaching is about transformation; therapy is about change
- Coaching is about momentum; therapy is about safety
- Coaching is about intuition; therapy is about feelings
- Coaching is about performance; therapy is about progress
- Coaching is about attraction; therapy is about timing
- Coaching is about creating; therapy is about resolving
- Coaching is about moving from functional to superior; therapy is about moving from dysfunctional to functional
How much does it cost?
Fee's will vary depending on what is agreed at the beginning. Everyone is different and it's not fair to put a time limit on being coached. Most people have best results over a period of sessions ranging from six to twelve months.
A one off session or small number of sessions can also be arranged.
Further questions?
Please fill out the contact form with any further questions you have about coaching. All enquiries are confidential and without obligation.