What is Coaching?

Coaching is an exciting popular professional service that has been in existence for about ten years. The philosophy of coaching is based on fundamental human principles of integrity, accountability, respect, and a belief in human potential.

Coaching is a goal-oriented, results- focused professional alliance that helps clients bridge the gap between where they are now and where they want to be.

Coaches:

1. Help people discover their goals and then reach those goals quickly

2. Ask their clients to do more than they would have done by themselves

3. Focus their clients on the actions and behaviours that will produce significant results fast

4. Provide the structure, tools and perspective to help clients accomplish more in their lives

What else does coaching do?

Coaching;

1. Motivates clients to stretch themselves

2. Encourages clients to be their best

3. Challenges clients to think bigger and realize their full potential

4. Dares clients to take more risks

6. Is a supportive structure available for people who want to produce results quickly and easily

7. Alters how clients think, feel and behave and so they begin to appreciate their own greatness

Coaching achieves this by;

1. Setting powerful, compelling goals so clients are clear about the direction they are heading

2. Providing the structure to help clients stick to them, even when the going gets tough

3. Focusing clients on where they are now, where they want to be, the best way to get there, and the action steps they are going to take, right now

4. Helping clients think laterally to create lots of options, and then think deeply about the choices they wish to make

5. Giving clients a step-by-step process that avoids the overwhelming feeling of not knowing where to start

6. Setting deadlines to give the whole process more urgency and importance

7. Working within a 12-week time frame; enough time to complete the project, but short enough to stay focused and motivated

8. Encourages clients to identify old obstructive habits, drop them, and develop new productive habits instead

9. Asking clients the hard questions and holding them to what they say they want and will do

10. Helping clients to stay committed to themselves and their goals