What is Coaching?
Coaching is a process that allows individuals or groups of people to reflect and gain awareness of:
· Who they are
· What is important to them
· Their strengths
· Their challenges
· The options open to them
· The action they must take to make the desired work or life change
It is often described as ‘a process of unlocking a person’s potential, to maximise their own performance’. Coaching encourages people to learn, develop and grow, rather than teaching them how to do it.
Trained coaches are experts at using questions and techniques to challenge, motivate and encourage clients to find their own solutions.
How I work
When working with clients, I always start with an initial assessment to see where they are in their lives. Clients generally come to me for help improving a particular area of their life, but often discover something else that would be far more beneficial as a first fix.
The client drives the session using their answers to my questions as the basis for change. I help them unlock those answers so that we can set goals to move forward.
Setting boundaries
I’m a big fan of boundaries. At their very core, boundaries are the way we teach others to treat us. Boundaries affect every single area of our lives and when actioned successfully, can create profound, positive change. In the past I have allowed friendships and relationships to continue to be unhealthy for both parties, far longer than they needed to be. But since setting boundaries, I rarely have internal conflict around other’s behaviours, or my feelings towards them. We address any challenges that come up with honesty and integrity.
““Fundamentally we’re all the by-product of not what has happened to us, but how we chose to handle it.””
Benefits of Coaching
A Coach points out what we can’t, don’t, or won’t see, providing a safe, compassionate, confidential environment.
A Coach helps give perspective, improve performance and aids with problem-solving and processing conflict.
A Coach empowers leaders to plan their work and then work their plan effectively in proper sequence
A Coach encourages you gain greater clarity around your purpose and passions In life, allowing you to learn to engage in being fully present encouraging mindfulness practices.
A Coach can help you to create different systems and structures to increase your productivity.
A Coach supports you to develop a better self-awareness and helps you with accountability, keeping you honest and enabling you to re-evaluate your thinking, assumptions and beliefs.
“My mission is to empower my clients to step towards a possibility. My coaching sessions, provide the vehicle to get them to their end goal.”
What kind of people have Coaching?
Coaching is available to anyone and is a valuable resource to help gain clarity and set clear goals in order to live an intentional life. I have coached clients on relationships, career change, self-confidence, motivation, friendships, mental health, and studying, home organisation, decluttering and time management.
I have coached men, women and children in person and online through all walks of life. If there is an area of your life that simply isn’t working, with careful questioning and support I can help you move forward and make those changes.
It takes commitment and time to make it work, but can be an extremely rewarding and fulfilling experience.
How does it work?
Once we have initially spoken on the phone, we will schedule a 30 -minute FREE phone consultation. At the outset of any coaching conversation, it makes sense to establish what the coachee wants to achieve.
Just as successful people set goals for their work and personal life, establishing goals at the outset of the coaching session helps to give the session a sense of purpose, ensuring it becomes a meaningful conversation rather than an aimless chat.
To ensure that I am the right fit for you and the areas that you wish to be coached in, this consultation will be a time to decide if it will be mutually beneficial. My coaching sessions are fortnightly to keep the momentum going and I work with you for approximately 2-6 months to achieve significant, lasting change.
My coaching fees will be discussed in the consultation. Payment plans are available.