"Coaching"
Coaching...the dictionary defines it as "private instruction." Yes, having a coach is much like having a private instructor, but it really is so much more...I believe coaching is also a talent and a gift. Good coaches have a knack for helping people become more of their authentic selves. They have a way of encouraging people to dig deep and realize more of their full potential than even they, themselves, thought possible.
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Call me toll-free at 1-877-626-2960 so we can get acquainted and talk about your personal and professional goals. Let me tell you how I can help you live the life you've envisioned. It's a free call so you've got nothing to lose and everything to gain!
What Is Coaching?
Coaching is a one-on-one consulting relationship between you and a qualified coach. In essence, you and your coach become partners who are both intent on helping you achieve your desired results. Your coach will help you focus on what you want to achieve in various areas of your life and help you develop and implement an action plan to achieve your full potential. Coaching often begins with a focus on business or career achievement and overlaps into other areas of life, because our lives generally can't be separated into neat little categories. Your dreams and desires will no doubt impact several areas of your life—your career, your finances, your personal life, and your health, for instance.
Coaching is generally done via in-person meetings or via telephone calls and discussions. Both techniques are beneficial to clients, and how your coaching is conducted will often depend on your physical proximity to your coach and your personal preferences. Meetings or telephone calls are scheduled in advance on a regular basis at intervals you and your coach determine will best meet your needs and your budget.
During your time with your coach, you'll focus specifically on what's going on in your life—and what you want to see happening in your life. Together you'll create a plan to make those things happen.
A qualified coach performs several vital roles that are instrumental to your success. A coach is only successful when you succeed! Helping you succeed is your coach's ultimate goal!
What Is A Coach?
A qualified coach will:
• Listen to you
• Help you identify and prioritize your personal values and priorities
• Help you identify and articulate your dreams for your life
• Help you set long-term and short-term goals to help you work toward the fulfillment of your dreams
• Help identify your personal motivators
• Help you identify and remove potential obstacles or barriers to your success
• Keep you focused
• Challenge you
• Introduce you to new ways of thinking
• Help you identify your strengths and capitalize on them
• Help you identify your weaknesses and minimize them
• Provide you with new ideas and resources you've never considered
• Brainstorm with you
• Help you try new things and master new skills
• Identify resources you can utilize
• Mentor you
• Encourage and support you
• Hold you accountable for your actions (or lack of action)
• Provide you with valuable feedback you can use
• Help you measure your progress
• Celebrate your successes with you!
Hiring a coach is a long-term commitment to yourself. Your coach will be there to help you identify what is truly important to you and develop a plan to achieve that. Your coach will be standing on the sidelines encouraging and supporting you as you take the actions necessary to achieve the goals that lead to your dreams. Your coach will be there at the finish line to congratulate you and help you gear up for the next race.
Unlike reading books and attending seminars, coaching is an ongoing process, and it's very interactive. Coaching essentially becomes a relationship—a supportive, mentoring relationship to help you achieve your potential. A truly great coach will tell you how to do something, show you how to do something (if necessary), and then cheer you on while you do it! A coach will be a safe sounding board and a confidential advisor. Your coach will be your number one fan, but also your biggest challenger—stretching you to achieve more than you could have achieved on your own. But remember, a coach isn't a crutch...
What A Coach Is Not
A coach is a professional consultant who always keeps your best interests as his/her highest priority. As a professional, your coach will maintain a focus on you and help you to achieve what you desire in your life. YOU are the coach's primary focus. A good coach will brainstorm with you, let you sound off when necessary, and maintain your confidentiality. And a good coach will guide, support, and mentor you to develop the skills, attitudes, and motivations you need to realize your goals and live the life you always imagined. A coach is and does many things, but there are also many things a coach is NOT.
A coach is NOT:
A Potential Romantic Interest. The head and the heart frequently pull people in two different directions. A professional coach will never become personally involved with a client because it will impair the critical element of objectivity.
Your Best Friend. Friends are great, but friends also frequently have two very different agendas. A professional coach will always keep your agenda firmly in mind. A coach may tell you things your friends never would—things that are sometimes difficult to hear from our friends—but are critical for your continuing development. Above all, a coach will always have your best interests at heart.
Your Therapist. Occasionally, you'll share information with your coach about the things going on in your life. But a professional coach isn't trained or equipped to deal with relationship issues, analyze your past, or deal with issues like depression. A coach isn't a therapist or psychologist.
A Crutch. While your coach will support and encourage you, a professional coach will not allow you to become dependent on him/her. A coach is there to help you, but not to do it for you.
Who Needs A Coach?
The ideal coaching client is focused on developing himself or herself to their highest potential and has already taken several steps to do just that. Now he or she wants to take life to the next level to achieve even more success. Working with a coach provides the client with the tools, drive, and stimulation required to do just that. By working with a coach, he or she can achieve far more toward her personal and professional goals than he or she could have achieved alone. Most coaching clients are pretty secure in who they are, but they want more—or they want something better, faster, or easier—with more effective results.
From students to CEO's and anyone in between—more and more people are realizing the benefits of coaching and experiencing accelerated success in every area of their life.
If you can relate to one or more of the following statements, you should definitely consider working with a coach:
• I want to give myself that extra "edge" to achieve even more than I already have!
• Changes are coming fast and furious. I don't know how to handle it all.
• I just changed positions. It's a promotion, but now I'm not so sure what made me successful in my old job will help me succeed in this job. I need to develop some new skills and dynamics to succeed in this new role.
• I've been making lots of progress, but now I've just sort of reached a plateau, and I can't seem to move beyond it.
• I have so much going on in my life that I don't know how to manage it all!
• I'm starting a brand new venture and could really use someone to bounce ideas around with.
• I've reached a point in my life/career where I just feel stuck. Where do I go from here?
• I used to think this was all I ever wanted out of life, but now, it's just not enough.
If you're not sure if coaching can help you, let's talk. Call me toll-free at 1-877-626-2960 and let's get acquainted. I'll tell you how the process works, you can get to know my coaching style, and I can explain how I can help you live a more fulfilling life—the life you really want to live.
Why Hire A Coach?
Today coaching clients come from all walks of life, and the reasons for hiring a coach are as numerous as the clients who hire them. Here are some of the most common reasons clients seek the expert assistance of a coach:
• To change their life in a positive, meaningful way
• To develop a more fulfilling, more purposeful life
• To help them set better, more effective goals
• To keep them focused on and toward their desired outcomes (keeps them from getting sidetracked)
• To challenge them to stretch themselves further
• To raise the bar and continue accelerating their success
• To access additional tools, resources, ideas, and brainstorming to maximize their effectiveness
• To incorporate a structured, guided approach to goal achievement into their lives
•To help them define what success really means to them and identify what they want out of life
• To reach a particular goal or complete a specific project
•To become more of their authentic selves and reorient their lives to be more meaningful and fulfilling
• To receive open, direct, honest feedback that is objective and constructive
• To identify and maximize strengths and minimize weaknesses
• To achieve more balance between work/career and the rest of their life
• To develop a support system of guidance and encouragement; to have a mentor
• To help them identify new skills and attitudes required for success and to learn those skills and develop those attitudes
• To cope with rapid change
What Are The Benefits of Coaching?
The benefits of coaching are almost too numerous to list, but we'll give it a try. Here are some of the most noticeable:
• A greater sense of fulfillment and purpose in life
• Greater feelings of joy and happiness
• Improved relationships—both at home and at work
• Increased self-awareness
• Positive self-esteem and high levels of self-confidence
• Achievement of short-term and long-term goals
• Better balance in all areas of your life—financial, spiritual, relationships, career, and health
• Greater influence with others
• Accelerated progress toward your goals and life dreams
• Clarity in your life—your personal and professional goals become more clear
• Improved performance and increased effectiveness
• More energy
• Networking leads and resources
• Measurable progress toward objectives
• Challenge and support—the extra "push" when you need it
• The ability to successfully navigate change
• Continued personal and professional development
While all forms of self-development and improvement are advantageous, coaching is more effective than books, seminars, and improvement programs because it integrates teaching and insights into your life on a daily basis. You apply the concepts and ideas you learn and discuss each day. You practice new skills and attitudes, get immediate feedback from an objective coach, and continue the ongoing process of change and development. Rather than starting and stopping (like when you read self-improvement books) or trying to cram all of your self-improvement into one small timeframe (outside the "norm" of your life—like when you attend a seminar), the benefits of coaching become an integral part of your life—the life you envisioned—as your dreams begin to become reality. Your self-esteem and confidence begins to soar as you begin to realize more of your potential than even you thought possible!
Coaching helps you achieve real, lasting change in your life. It's up to 80% more effective than books, tapes, and seminars over the long term. And after all, life is long term. We've got to start looking at the big picture and focusing on what is really important!
Now What?
Are you ready to discover how I can help you create a more balanced, more purposeful life—and become more of who you already are—on purpose?
Let's get to know each other a bit, talk about your personal and professional goals, and explore how I can help you create and live the life you envision through the individual coaching process. I'll tell you a bit about how the process works, you can get to know my coaching style and see if we make a "connection," and then we'll go from there.
Call me toll-free at 1-877-626-2960 today.
It's my dime and my time—you've got nothing to lose...and EVERYTHING to gain!
P.S. If after viewing our presentation and surfing our site you're not quite ready to pursue a coaching relationship, that's perfectly fine! I hope you enjoyed your visit here and came away with a wealth of knowledge about coaching and the coaching process—and I hope you'll send your friends here to visit, as well.
What Can I Expect From My Coach?
You can expect open, honest, direct feedback from your coach—delivered in a sensitive, constructive manner. You can expect ideas, suggestions, guidance, and choices—all designed to help you focus on the areas you're interested in changing or developing in your life. You can expect that your coach will keep your best interests in the forefront of his mind at all times—because your success is his success and his goal is to help you become even more successful than you are.
Working with a coach is a mutual commitment—you are committed to developing yourself to achieve more of your potential—and the coach is committed to helping you achieve your goals, dreams, and objectives in every way possible. Your problems become your coach's challenges—and your coach delights in meeting a challenge. Your coach will actively listen to your thoughts and concerns and help you identify the core issues that are important to you. Together, you will create a plan of action steps you can take to achieve goals, solve problems, and realize your dreams. As you begin to integrate these action steps into your life, your coach will follow your progress, help you when you experience setbacks, and brainstorm with you to develop solutions to problems.
Your coach will be there with you as you take actions to put your plan into effect, to help you make any necessary modifications, to encourage and support you, and to celebrate your successes along the way!
Your coach will help you look at the big picture to help you achieve total life satisfaction and develop yourself to your true potential. He will help you achieve a balance that is satisfying and fulfilling.
What Does It Cost?
Many coaches don't like to discuss their fees, but we believe our fee structure is not something to beat around the bush about.
The Individual Coaching Process consists of 12 sessions delivered over the telephone. The price for the entire Process, including all materials (text, CD's, workbook/action plan, etc), is $5000 plus two referrals.
