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Questions and Answers About Coaching
What is coaching?
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Coaching is a
designed alliance between a trained professional coach and an individual or
organization to assist the client clarify and move toward their vision and
goals using action oriented strategies. Coaching is in demand by
executives, professionals, managers, small business owners, entrepreneurs,
people in transition and organizations who want to bring out their best. |
| Coaching, until recently,
consisted principally of executive and management coaching for improved
career performance. Now coaching has broadened to include the best from psychology, business,
philosophy, spirituality and financial planning to maximize the potential of
individuals, entrepreneurs, professionals and
organizations. |
The College of
Executive Coaching's coaches help you utilizing these features:
| Assessment: Professional
assessment tools enable you to have an objective means to highlight your
strengths and identify areas for potential improvement. |
| Synergy: You and the coach become a team, focusing on
your goals and needs and accomplishing more than you would alone. |
| Structure: Your coach provides
you an accountability mechanism so you take more action, think bigger and
get the job done. |
| Expertise: Your coach's
advanced training and expertise and independent perspective helps you make more money, make better decisions, set the best goals, and restructure
your professional and personal life for maximum productivity, and spiritual and emotional fulfillment. |
Who works with a coach?
| Individuals, small business
owners, executives, people leading complicated lives and organizations --
virtually anyone and any organization can benefit from coaching. |
Here are examples of just
some of the areas you and your coach may work on together:
| Clarifying your vision of what
you want to make of your life |
| Starting a new career or
business |
| Goal setting and business
planning |
| Increasing your profits |
| Developing new skills and
interests |
| Balancing work and family life |
| Handling personal
or business challenges |
| Making key decisions and designing strategies |
| Getting and staying in shape |
| Prioritizing actions and projects |
| "Catching up" in all
aspects of your life |
| Training, developing and managing staff |
| Finding time for yourself |
| Transforming difficult situations into
positive outcomes |
| Leadership and management
strategies |
| Revising budgets
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