WHAT IS COACHING?
The coaching process can help you improve your outlook on work and life. It can help to improve your leadership skills and unlock unrealized potential.
As your coach, I'm neither your guru, advisor, mentor, nor therapist.
A professional coach keeps you in the driver's seat because to do otherwise would disempower you.
I'm your judgment-free partner who helps to define unmet potential and co-create how to get there. But you get to create that definition based upon your values and motivations, based on your 'why' and not someone else's.
That's why I like the metaphor of living in overdrive. In basic terms, it means you're living your life at its peak but in the most efficiently way possible.
Meaningful change is within all of us - the world and its cacophony of information and expectations have simply clouded the way.
As your coach, I'm neither your guru, advisor, mentor, nor therapist.
A professional coach keeps you in the driver's seat because to do otherwise would disempower you.
I'm your judgment-free partner who helps to define unmet potential and co-create how to get there. But you get to create that definition based upon your values and motivations, based on your 'why' and not someone else's.
That's why I like the metaphor of living in overdrive. In basic terms, it means you're living your life at its peak but in the most efficiently way possible.
Meaningful change is within all of us - the world and its cacophony of information and expectations have simply clouded the way.
Why should I partner with a coach?
If you want to take advantage of an opportunity or challenge, feel “stuck” on the path to achieving your goals, or simply believe there’s something more to discover in your personal or professional life, partnering with a professional coach could benefit you.
The most successful coaching partnerships require a client who has a clear idea of what they want to accomplish and is open to collaboration and new perspectives. You have to commit to making the change, it takes effort, and I'm afraid I can't do the work for you.
As a coaching client, your role is to:
If you want to take advantage of an opportunity or challenge, feel “stuck” on the path to achieving your goals, or simply believe there’s something more to discover in your personal or professional life, partnering with a professional coach could benefit you.
The most successful coaching partnerships require a client who has a clear idea of what they want to accomplish and is open to collaboration and new perspectives. You have to commit to making the change, it takes effort, and I'm afraid I can't do the work for you.
As a coaching client, your role is to:
- Create the coaching agenda based on personally meaningful goals
- Assume full responsibility for your own decisions and actions
- Use the coaching process to promote a growth mindset and develop fresh perspectives
- Engage big-picture thinking and problem-solving skills
- Take the tools, concepts, models and principles to engage in effective forward actions
To call yourself a coach does not require anything - it's not like requiring the bar exam to practice law. However, the International Coaching Federation (ICF) is an organization that exists to define standards and ethics to help wrangle the wild west of coaching. The path for certification requires 60+ hrs of classwork through an accredited training organization, 100+ hours of client coaching, passing the ICF knowledge exam, and passing grades on recorded sessions and transcripts.
