What is Business Coaching?

What do all the very best athletes have in common?

Apart from an innate desire and determination to succeed… they all have a great coach!

A coach is the athlete's secret weapon - working behind the scenes to make sure the athletes are performing at their peak. If you want to play at your very best, do what professional athletes do: get coached.

Here's what a good coach does for you:

1. Keeps you focused.

2. Points you in the right direction.

3. Holds you accountable; a coach wants you to reach peak performance.

4. Cultivates your talent.

5. Invests in your success.

Coaching is a professional partnership between you and a qualified coach. The aim of this partnership is to support you in achieving results based on the goals you set.

Through the process of coaching, you’ll focus on the skills and actions you need to make to successfully produce results that are personally relevant.

You choose the focus of the conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions as well as concepts and principles which can assist in generating possibilities and identifying actions.

Through the coaching process, you can achieve the clarity that you need to support the actions to take.  Coaching can accelerate your progress by providing you with greater focus and awareness of possibilities you might not have considered by working alone.

Coaching concentrates on where you are now and what you are willing to do to get where you want to be in the future.

Benefits

When you engage in coaching, you can expect to experience fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities, enhanced thinking and decision-making skills and increased confidence in carrying out your role.

If you have a fairly clear idea of the desired outcome, coaching can be a useful tool for developing a strategy to achieve that outcome with greater ease.

Since coaching is a partnership, also ask yourself:

•  Would I find it valuable to be coached, to have another viewpoint?

•  Would I be willing to consider new perspectives?

•  Am I ready to devote the time to coaching?

•  Am I willing to stop or change self-defeating behaviours which limit my success?

•  Is this the right time for me to accept coaching?

How does it work?

Coaching typically begins with a personal face-to-face meeting to help assess your current opportunities and challenges, define the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action and establish specific desired outcomes.

Subsequent coaching sessions will be ideally conducted in person (online and Skype coaching is available), with each session lasting a previously established length of time. Between scheduled sessions you may be asked to complete specific actions that support the achievement of your goals.

Your coach may provide you with additional resources in the form of relevant articles, checklists, assessments or models to support your thinking and actions.  The duration of the coaching relationships varies according to your personal needs and preferences.

Reasons why you will ask me to coach you:

•  Help meet a challenge, stretch goal or make the best of an opportunity that is urgent, compelling or exciting

•  You have a gap in knowledge, skills, confidence or resources

•  A big stretch is being asked or required of you and is time sensitive

•  You would like to accelerate your results

•  You need to correct the course taken at work due to a setback

•  You have a lack of clarity and there are choices that need to be made

•  You are extremely successful and your success has started to become problematic

•  Your work and life are out of balance and this is creating unwanted consequences

•  You would like to identify core strengths and how best to use them

•  You have a need and desire to be better organised and self-managing.

Contact me to learn about Business Coaching opportunities...