WHAT IS PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL COACHING?

Coaching is a professional relationship that enhances your ability to learn, make changes, and achieve desired goals. Your coach helps you get clear about what you want to accomplish, set specific goals, make an effective action plan, stay focused, and eliminate obstacles. In a coaching relationship, you and your coach prioritize, plan, analyze, troubleshoot, and brainstorm. Your coach provides structure, feedback, perspective, skill-building techniques, and smart questions. Together, you evaluate options, make decisions, track your progress, and celebrate achievements.

Coaching is not consulting, although it is consultative. Traditional consulting offers solutions and expertise. Coaching facilitates discovery by assisting you to find your own unique answers. Your coach provides her own expertise whenever it is useful, but doesn't do things for you. The primary role of your coach is to listen, question, observe, pinpoint, re-frame, and articulate what's so. The plans you make are your own.

Coaching is not teaching, although it is educational. While teaching can fade, coaching reinforces learned concepts and skills until they become second nature. Your coach provides skills training in the "need-to-know" moment that formal teaching misses. He also helps you remember how much you already know. You learn more by discovering answers than by hearing them. Coaching is not therapy, although it is therapeutic. The focus of coaching is on identifying specific objectives, and developing strategic plans, action steps and thinking processes that will move you toward achieving your desired goals. Coaching is focused on action, not healing. It looks at the future, not the past. Why you are the way you are doesn't matter. What matters is how you want to be.

Coaching unlocks your potential to maximize your own performance. The structure of coaching is flexible. You and your coach custom-design a coaching arrangement that meets your individual needs and schedule. The basic design consists of:

An initial session to create a coaching strategy
Special targeted coaching sessions on an as needed basis
Regular on-going coaching sessions

Coaching sessions are usually weekly, lasting from a half-hour to an hour. You and your coach define the length and frequency that best supports you. Sessions may be focused on one specific challenge you are facing, or on a much broader set of personal or professional issues. Coaching relationships generally last from three months to several years. The nature of your goals and the changes you wish to make will determine the length of time that makes the most sense for you.

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