Coaching helps you move forward from where you are to where you want to be. It is a partnership with someone who can help you achieve a greater level of clarity and focus and produce fulfilling results in your personal and professional life. As your coach we provide you with feedback, tools and techniques, guidance, structure and support to help you realize your unique talents and gifts and then maximize them to achieve the success you want. Coaching is forward-looking and action-oriented. According to a survey of coaching clients, “sounding board” and “motivator” were the top roles selected for a coach. Clients are looking for a coach “to really listen to them and give honest feedback.” The top three issues in which clients seek help are time management, career, and business.
What does a coach do?
Coaches are people-development professionals trained to help you create a more productive and satisfying life for yourself and realize your full potential. They can help you produce more results with less time and with less struggle and stress. Coaches serve as your thinking partners, objective sounding boards, and personal motivators. We provide the input, tools, structure and support to help you:
- Identify and solve perplexing professional or personal issues
- Identify and eliminate things that are dragging you down
- See the future possibilities in your current situation
- Get in touch with who you are and what you really want and need to be doing
- Help you define your personal definition of success and move toward it
- Clarify and significantly broaden your vision
- Set better goals that are more in line with your vision and what you really want
- Find the most appealing and effective strategies to achieve your goals
- Move toward your goals and adjust appropriately along the way
- Stay focused and on track
- Turn your self-doubt into self-confidence
We encourage and support your self-discovery and help you to find the answers that are right for you. During our coaching sessions we:
- Keep the focus on YOU – who you are, your definition of success, your personal values
- Listen with non-judgmental attitudes
- Provide you an outside and objective perspective
- Quickly identify barriers to your success
- Point out things you can’t see and give you ideas on how to improve your performance
- Help you define goals, strategies, and plans
- Empower you with to believe you can accomplish your goals
- Accelerate your progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice
- Teach you tools and techniques and remind you to use them
- Serve as your support system and challenge you to go beyond where you would normally
- Don’t allow set backs to derail you
- Motivate you to be your absolute best
Why do people hire a coach?
People hire coaches because they want a partner to help them perform and be their absolute best. The following are a few of the more specific reasons why people hire a coach:
- Are tired of struggling to achieve success and want more out of life
- Want to learn, grow and gain clarity with their vision
- Don’t feel they are reaching their full potential and want empowerment
- Want to change, improve, or solve something and need motivation
- Are undergoing a personal or professional transition
- Want help in defining goals that fit their values as well as their needs and wants
- Want someone who will tell them the truth about their situation and give them honest, objective feedback and hold them accountable
- Want someone to teach them practical and effective tools and techniques to achieve greater success in their lives
How is coaching conducted?
Coaching is conducted through structured, insightful, and supportive conversations. While the majority of our one-on-one coaching is over the phone, in-person sessions can be arranged by special request. In each coaching session we listen, ask questions, give honest feedback, empower, motivate and help you apply practical tools and techniques to clarify and focus on your vision, goals, strategies, plans and solutions.
Who can benefit from coaching?
Anyone that does not feel they are reaching their full potential in their career or personal life should consider hiring a coach. However, to get the most benefit from your coaching, you need to want it and be “coachable”. You are “coachable” if you are:
- Willing to communicate honestly and open to hearing the truth
- Open to receiving feedback and assistance
- Open to new ideas and ways of thinking, and willing to try new approaches, open to change
- Willing and able to invest time in yourself
- Willing and able to do the work required
- Willing to accept responsibility for your life and the decisions you make
- How is coaching different from counseling or therapy?
Coaching is about the present and the future and taking action based on goals and objectives. Coaches work with healthy, alive people and help them to move forward. Coaching is not about trying to uncover or solve issues in the past, although insights about the past often occur as a result of coaching. Coaching is not intended for, or effective with, individuals who have severe mental or emotional problems or who have addictions.
How is coaching different from business consulting?
If you need technical information and advice, and you need it right away so that you can move forward, then a consultant may be the answer. If you want to develop a new way of thinking and being so that you can consistently work at a higher level in your life and in your career or business, then coaching is likely to be a better solution.
How do I start?
Call Directional Coaching, Inc. at 434.661.8068 or send an email
rebecca@directionalcoachinginc.com
to arrange for your complimentary, no-obligation, introductory coaching session.
Coaching | philtucker | 
June 4, 2010 9:50 am | 
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