What is coaching?
Coaching is a unique and powerful partnership that helps you create major positive change by improving your thinking. People use coaching to improve their performance, reach their potential, and enhance their quality of life, both personally and professionally.
Coaches are guides trained to listen, observe, and create the right environment to help you generate insights and solutions. We provide support to help you discover, connect to, and leverage the strengths, resources, and creativity you already have. We ask the right questions to help you into the driver's seat, choose the right route to your goals, and keep yourself moving forward, constantly closing the distance between where you are and where you want to be. Coaches believe in your potential and are 100% committed to your results.
In short, the coaching partnership helps you discover and work on what really matters, maintaining focus and forward motion until you achieve your goals. Along the way, you gain insights and create new habits that produce lasting positive changes.
How does coaching differ?
Coaching is a structured process that contains a beginning, middle, and end, and ways to assess value along the way. It asks questions like, "What, where, how, and when?" and is focused on the present and the future.
Coaching is self-directed, focuses on solutions not problems, provides positive feedback, and stretches you.
Consulting is where you pay someone to tell you what to do to improve your performance or to do it for you.
Therapy helps people process their mental and emotional issues to improve their quality of life. It asks the question, "Why?," is often focused on the past, and does not have a specific end date.
What happens in coaching?
In coaching, you:
Identify and clarify objectives and priorities.
Design specific, measurable, inspiring, challenging, but realistic goals.
Build strategies and plans for achieving your goals, step-by-step.
Set ongoing focused actions that you commit to completing by next session.
Monitor progress and apply your insights and learning to fine tune your strategies and actions.
Celebrate success and expand your learning to new opportunities!