Coaching: A Path to Fulfillment
Are you curious about coaching and how it can benefit you? Many professionals seek out a coach to help them achieve their goals or to chart a path to fulfillment. You may be dealing with disruptive change, struggling to get optimal performance from your team, or taking on new job responsibilities. All of these challenges, and more, can be addressed through coaching.
Coaching candidates can be:
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An established professional who is walking a path and facing challenges along the way
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An individual in transition evaluating an array of possibilities
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A recent college graduate or young professional seeking a strong start in a new field
If you are facing these or similar situations, coaching can help you make your way forward with confidence.
What Is Coaching?
Coaching is a helping relationship where the primary focus is to make positive, meaningful change in one's life. It is uniquely different from other helping relationships, such as Therapy, Consulting, Mentoring and Advising.
Coaching is:
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Future focused
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Goal oriented
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Introspective
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Awareness raising
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Bias busting
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Action learning
Coaching is not:
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Processing the past
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Healing old wounds
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Airing grievances
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Providing solutions
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Fixing problems
What Is the Coach's Role?
A Coach engages with a client in thoughtful dialogue leading to awareness that unlocks their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching reveals previously untapped imagination, productivity and leadership.
A Coach is a:
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Supporter
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Attentive listener
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Thought partner
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Navigator
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Challenger
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Dot connector
A Coach is not a:
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Therapist
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Advisor
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Mentor
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Consultant
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Makeover artist
What Can You Gain From Coaching?
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Self-Awareness - Clients achieve greater awareness of their strengths, weaknesses, passions and preferences. With this new insight, clients are able to see the future with more clarity and develop action plans that can result in reaching new levels of performance and satisfaction.
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Ownership - Clients direct their personal development by bringing an agenda to each session, engaging in dialogue that opens up new perspectives, determining actions to take and committing to taking immediate steps.
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Confidence - Clients gain confidence through the coaching process as they uncover insights into themselves as leaders and see new ways to tackle problems. This confidence encourages experimentation and calculated risk taking essential to performance.
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Resilience - As they try on new approaches and behaviors while executing their action plans, clients become more resilient to change and the inevitable ups and downs of everyday business…and life!
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