What is Personal Coaching?
Personal coaching is a synergistic, interactive process focused on you. It is designed to help you reach your full, emotional, financial, and creative potential. Personal coaching is a relationship where the total focus is on you.
Coaching is a method of direction, instructing and training a person or group of people with the purpose of achieving a specific goal. The coach’s job is to help clients articulate their dreams, desires and aspirations, help them clarify their mission, purpose and goals, and help them achieve that outcome. These topics can include personal and professional considerations, relationships, health matters and financial concerns.
Professional coaching is not counseling, therapy or mentoring. A coach may recommend counseling or therapy. Mentoring involves a developmental relationship between a more experienced “mentor” and a less experienced partner, and typically it involves the sharing of advice. Coaching is more formal than mentoring and it involves specific steps and a commitment.
What are the benefits of Personal Coaching?
Life coaching helps people to get out of an unproductive pattern, gain clarity and ultimately to lead more fulfilling lives. Life coaching involves assessing where you are right now, where you want to go in the future and how to begin the process of receiving all you desire in life.
Life coaching encourages thoughtful self-reflection and can help people create more joy, fun, balance and abundance. A personal coach can expand your thinking, helping you to make smarter decisions and develop more balance in your life. A personal coach can show you how to base your personal and business goals on your core values and develop your natural strengths. Your coach will listen to you, hear you, and help you to reach your personal and business potential. Coaches provide the support, encouragement and resources needed for clients to set and achieve their personal and/or professional goals.
How Personal Coaching works
The process begins with the coach and the client going through a series of questions to discover areas needing immediate attention or causing the most stress. The first stage is to determine if personal coaching is a good option and if so what type of plan will be developed. Once a course of action has been chosen, the coaching begins. Your individual plan is developed with guidelines for implementation, including a prioritized plan of action. It includes time frames and unique deliverables for you. Homework is assigned between sessions. The process is continually assessed so that your results can be measured and your plan revised accordingly.
A coach provides a place for clients to be held accountable to themselves by monitoring the clients’ progress towards implementation of their action plans. Together the coach and client evolve and modify the plan to best suit the client’s needs and relationships. The coaches may teach specific insight and skills to empower the client toward the established goals.
Clients are responsible for their own achievements and success. The client takes action, and the coach may assist, but never leads or does more than the client. Therefore, a coach cannot and does not promise that a client will take any specific action or attain specific goals.
Coaching works best by telephone, where information can be shared in privacy and with maximum convenience to the client. Typically, the client calls the coach for forty-five minutes, once a week at a pre-set time. All calls are strictly confidential. The process includes emails to the level you desire.
How to Find a Good Coach
The qualities required for a good coach include:
Good listening skills. A good coach will give undivided attention and support. This leads to the intuitive questioning that allows the client to explore what is going on with the learning process.
Communication skills. The ability to interpret and reflect back, in ways that remove barriers, pre-conceptions, bias, and negativity. Communicating well enables trust and meaningful understanding.
Curiosity, flexibility, courage. Coaching is client-led – which means the coach must be flexible to clients’ needs, asking thought provoking questions. This takes courage on the part of the coach to bring insight and reveal blind spots.
Ability to develop rapport. There must be a trust level established for the client to be open and honest. The coach must be able to make the client feel comfortable by providing a safe environment.
Being motivational and inspiring. A good coach will be passionate about helping people and will portray a feeling of encouragement and motivation. A good coach is self-motivated and usually has a personal story of growth that is inspiring to others.
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Who hires a coach?
Individuals who want more from life and value their own potential are very likely to seek the services of a coach. Some have reached a point in their lives where a new direction is indicated and they want the benefit of guidance to move to the next level.
Are you ready for coaching?
Answer the following questions to determine if coaching is a realistic and valuable tool for you. The answers to these questions will help to determine how we can help you.
1. One year from now what would you like your life to look like?
2. Where do you want to be in five years and what will life be like when you get there?
3. What will be different from how you are now?
4. What would you like to have even more of in your life?
5. What’s going on in your life that you would like to change?
6. What’s taking up your time that you wish you could eliminate?
7. In what areas do you want to start improving your life?
8. What are some ways you can start to work on achieving those goals?
9. What really matters most to you?
10. What area(s) are you struggling the most in?
11. At this moment what are you most grateful for?
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