1 What is coaching?2 How is coaching difference from consulting or therapy or even a best friend?
3 What is the basic philosophy of coaching?
5 What happens when you hire a coach?
6 Does the coach work on personal or business and professional goals?
8 What about people who are already doing well in their lives. Why would they need a coach?9 Can I hire a coach for a short-term, special project?
10 What does it cost to hire a coach?1. What is coaching?
Coaching is a relatively new profession, the evolution of which is most often credited to a terrific coach and the founder of a coach Coach University, Thomas Leonard. Coaches:
Help people set better goals and then reach and surpass them.
Ask their clients to do more than they would have done on their own.
Help their clients focus on what matters most to produce better
results in less time.
Provide clients with the tools, support and structure to accomplish
more.
Creates synergistic, win-win solutions.
2. How is coaching different from consulting or therapy or even a best friend?Coaching is comparable to consulting except that the coach stay focused on the clients agenda, not his/her own, and stays with the client as long as the client sees the value-add he/she is receiving in implementing the new skills, changes and goals.
Coaching is NOT therapy. Coaches dont focus on understanding past behavior or emotional stress of the client. If therapy is what client needs, we will ask that they deal with those issues with trained therapists before beginning the coaching relationship. Once those issues are addressed , coaching will help create quantum leaps in performance. The coaching partnership is future-bound without the restraints of history.
Best friend. A best friend is wonderful to have. Your coach will challenge you in areas of expertise your best friend may not have, and may challenge you in ways your friends wont. Give yourself a gift a best friend AND coach.
3. What is the basic philosophy of coaching?Simply put, it is that we humans are great , that were all discovering what we really want, and that we get what we want faster and more easily by having a coach whos been there and who challenges us to greater heights.
4. Who hires a coach and why?
People of all walks of life hire a personal or professional coach because:
They want more and they want it now.
They want to develop into the best they can be.
They want to do things more easily with a life of balance.
It is as simple as that. Coaches help a person get all there, quickly.
5. What happens when you hire a coach?
Many things, but the most important are:
You take yourself more seriously.
You take more effective and focused actions immediately because
you set your accountability with the coach.
You stop putting up with "tolerations," those things which waste your
time and energy, either physically or emotionally.
You create momentum so that results come more quickly, and build
on each other.
You set better goals that are more exactly what you want
6. Does the coach work on personal goals, or business/professional goals?Both! With the line between personal and business life blurring as it is in the 90s the coach is the only professional trained to work with both aspects of your life and help you create a balance between the two.
7. Why does coaching work?
Coaching works for several reasons:
Synergy between the coach and clients create momentum.
Better goals Are set ones that naturally pulls the client toward the
goal rather than the goals that require the client to push themselves
to the goal.
The client develops new skills, and these skills translate into more
success.
Its FUN!
8. What about people the are doing really well in their lives. Why would the need a coach?
The might not need a coach. But it is helpful to ask themselves:
Are they doing what they most enjoy?
Are they tolerating anything or anyone that makes them
uncomfortable?
Is life easy and really fun?
Are they going to be financially independent in the next 15 years?
Do they have what they most want?
Weve discovered that people often need to expect more out of their lives.
9. Can I hire a coach just for a short term, or special project?Absolutely! Some clients hire a coach to help them accomplish specific goals or projects. Usually, however, the client keeps working with the coach, cause they discover that there are even greater heights to achieve.
10. Is sounds great! But what does it cost to hire a coach?We have several very flexible plans depending on the type of coaching relationship you want ranging from $100 to $1000 per month.