What is coaching?
Coaching is about helping you achieve whatever you want in your life and at your work. It’s a relationship that involves development of skills and awareness andimprovement of performance. Coaching is about getting the very best out of someone and enabling them to make decisions that will improve their life.
Coaching is about RESULTS!
Coaching is different to psychology, counseling or therapy. The big difference between coaching and these professions is that coaching doesn’t claim to have the answers. A therapist or councillor will look at the past to find solutions, a coach is not concerned with the past, but will use resources from the past when working exclusively with thepresent and the future. Coaching increases motivation and helps you discover your full potential. The skills and the tools that coaching uses are to help you find the answers and bring them to the surface to get the energy to make that a positive action.
Why coaching? (Benefits)
- you learn at your own pace and from a one-to-one relationship, the focus is 100% on you
- you develop the skills you need for the current and/or the future jobs and activities
- you get to talk about your issues and challenges with someone that will not judge or criticize or offer opinions, but will help you find solutions
- everything you discuss with your coach will be confidential and will remain between you and the coach
A coach:
- accepts you as the special individual you truly are and sees the potential that you have!
- helps you perform better than you are currently doing and develop yours skills and confidence over a period of time
- cares that you create what you say you want, and that you follow your choices
- empowers you to find your own answers, encouraging and supporting you on your path
- is not necessarily a mentor or an expert, does not have the answers but the skill tohelp you find the answer
- is a change agent, an expert in creating change in people and organizations
- does not give advice: each one of us has his own solution and way of doing things, a coach can only help you discover the solution
- helps you reach higher levels of effectiveness by creating a dialogue that leads to awareness and action
- has concern for you and wants to see you be better in all areas of your life and work
- engages you by asking questions, listening and being supportive in a way that helps you discover for yourself the ways in which your attitude helps increasing the level of success
- can keep you accountable
- can be a source of creative ideas and help you create your vision
- will support you with inspiration and positiveness
- helps you change your life towards meaning & fulfillment
When do you need coaching?
- when you feel overwhelmed
- when you want to make a change in your life
- when you feel something is missing
- when you want to achieve a challenging goal
- when you want to create the life of your dreams
- when you want to improve your performance
- when you want to gain more confidence
- when you would like to improve but you don’t know where to start from
- when you want clarity in your life
- when you want to discover your values and life purpose
- when you have lost direction
- when you need someone to talk to about your issues and find ways to solve them
- when you lost your motivation
- when you feel you need confidence and increase the level of your self-esteem
- when you are in doubt about what you are doing in your life
- when you need to overcome anxiety, your fears and doubts
- when you want to change your life, your career etc
How does it work?
Coaching starts with where you are now and where do you want to get. If you don’t know where yet, no problem, we can discover that together. The sessions end with a strategy and tactics that will move you closer to your goal.
You can meet your coach face to face or on the telephone (or via Skype). The sessions length is according to the agreement you will have with your coach and it can vary between 30 minutes to 2 hours, according to the issue. In the agreement you will also establish the times you will meet with your coach, if on a weekly or once every two weeks basis.
You will establish what is the issue, what is your goal, where are you at this point regarding your goal and what are the options you could explore. After choosing the best option for you, you will establish an action plan. During the time between the sessions it’s important you take action! That action will take you closer to achieving your goal.
You will receive support via email and availability from your coach in case you would like to have a quick updating call in between the sessions.
Check the steps of a Coaching Program:
Areas in which you can work with a coach: relationship, career, finances, self-esteem, confidence, health, wellness, fitness, balance, hobby etc.
Check all areas in the Wheel of Life chart:
Different types of coaching:
Life coaching
It covers every aspect of personal development that you might aspire to: career direction and development, management, executive and leadership, business start-up and entrepreneurship, life skills, personal fulfillment, life-balance and the acquisition of specific skills or knowledge.
You can use a life coach if you are feeling negative and laking motivation, if you would like to make a plan and take action on you ideas, like a business plan or what to put in a presentation, how to have a successful interview, how to start a new hobby, how to overcome diffidence, how to communicate powerfully, how to turn challenges around, focus on what is really important in your life and eliminate fear and self-doubt.
Life coaching is motivational, inspiring, positive and action driven. It helps you raise awareness and encourages you to take responsibility for your life. You are the only one responsible for your life and a coach can help in reaching the perfect life you want.
It takes a lot of work and commitment, but the change happens!
Health/Wellness coaching
A health coach or a wellness coach has only one interest in mind: keep you in a state of wellness or help you get there. The areas that you could work on together with a coach are:
- disease management
- diet and nutrition
- fitness
- pre- and post-natal wellbeing
- stress management
- weight management
- work/life balance
- family relationships
Business Coaching
As the world of business moves faster and gets more competitive it’s difficult to keep up with challenges and change management. A business coach will help you develop long-term and short-term goals and strategies to improve your business and make more profit.
Executive coaching
Who can an executive talk to about the challenges in business and in life? A coach.
What for?
- for the need and willingness to change, improve, grow
- for self-awareness and personal discovery
- for learning from personal experiences
- to discover improvement and strong points
- to focus on all areas of management: process/people/results
- for work/life balance
Intercultural coaching / Expat coaching
Expatriate coaching deals specifically with the unique set of challenges created from crossing cultures following an international or domestic relocation. The coach helps you deal with adapting to a new culture, with identity issues created within relocating families, difficulties attaining professional goals during a movement into another country, and other social and personal issues unique to each individual.
