| About Coaching
Coaching Is A Process
Coaching is a process. Your regularly scheduled and consistent connection
with your coach is structured to keep you in that process. While
in the process you will be discovering things about yourself that
will change the way you look at what is around you. You will be
asked to examine your beliefs, actions, behaviors and surroundings
to ensure they are congruent with the point you want to get to.
All this is designed to keep you taking steps forward with solid
actions towards the things you want for yourself.
It's Not Just About Results
While results are important, they are not the sole focus of the
coaching process. It is more about your evolution than the hard
results. The results are a bi-product of your personal evolution
within the process. And often these results end up to be much more
than you could have ever imagined at the beginning. Goals and results
are certainly not ignored in the process. In fact they act as the
beacon points to keep you moving forward. But as you evolve the
goals and intended results may change and be replaced by things
that are a larger or broader expression of your true nature.
Conscious Choices Are Key
Coaching is designed to keep you moving forward and taking action
based on the continuous discoveries and choices made about you and
your goals. The key word being "conscious". Most of us
make many choices but they are rarely conscious and most often based
on emotions. In the coaching process your choices are examined for
congruency with your priorities and objectives.
You Work At The Level and Pace That Is
Best For YOU
Coaching works best for those who are ready and willing to make
changes but may feel overwhelmed or unsure about making those changes.
Your coach will work with you to determine the level and speed of
changes you are ready to make to ensure your coaching is an enjoyable
and fruitful process. A good coach will keep you stretching in a
way that is stimulating and usually fun. Where coaching becomes
ineffective is when you may be feeling driven for results and change
beyond what feels right for you. A professional, experienced coach
knows how to keep you moving in a way that is enjoyable and inspires
you to take bigger steps.
It's All About YOU
Remember, your coach is a tool for you to get to the place you want
to go. It's all about you and what you want. You get to accept,
modify or reject any request made of you by your coach and you call
the shots with regards to what is right or not right for you. A
coach is not a guru or a sage. A professional coach is well trained
and experienced at partnering with clients to elicit the very best
from them and always come from the belief that their clients are
creative and resourceful. They clearly see their job is to evoke
the innate wisdom that lies within each of their clients. |
