What is Coaching?
Coaching is a supportive one-on-one relationship with a primary focus on you achieving your goals, solving problems and making the most of yourself and your opportunities. Coaching is Learning-in-Action.
The roles of the Coach include: Mentor, Consultant, and Success
Partner. A Coach, much like a Personal Trainer, helps to establish
structure and process, helps you identify clear goals and the actions
required to meet them, and holds you accountable to your own commitment
to your self-defined goals. Goals may be outcome-based or behavior-focused.
As a coach, I help you set powerful, meaningful, and more rewarding
personal and professional goals. In short, I help you discover the
true leader within!
 How
do I know if I would benefit from Coaching?
Take a look at the checklist "Coaching Works Wonders for people
who are..." by clicking the box on the right. If you possess
5 or more of those characteristics, you could benefit from working
with a good coach.
How does Coaching work?
I speak with each client several times per month by phone, and
in person when appropriate. These appointments focus on identified
goals, current progress, elimination of barriers to improvement,
and the development of the ability to observe and self-correct their
own behavior. Coach and client together choose the focus, format,
and desired outcomes for our work.
Self-analysis/assessment and feedback from others may be used to
define opportunity areas, while personal and organizational mission
and business priorities serve as backdrop for all goal setting.
When is Coaching appropriate?
Coaching can improve performance and outcomes in a variety of situations,
including but not limited to the following: leaders seeking to move
themselves or their organizations to the next level; high-potential
people whose organizations need them to take responsibility for
greater things; "derailed" executives who need assistance
to get back on track; developing managers who want to move forward
faster; people who are seeking balance while continuing their career
progression; anyone who needs to "re-energize" a career;
people who want to apply new learning; professionals who seek to
excel but realize they need support; those who are overwhelmed by
change, new duties, and the accelerating pace of life and the workplace.
What's the Bottom Line?
A coaching relationship, which typically lasts from several months
to a year, can result in dramatic improvement in self-awareness,
adaptability, personal accountability, personal growth, and effectiveness.
Combined with traditional forms of training and development, coaching
can increase retention of learning and accelerate its application.
My clients generally report an ROI many times greater than their
investment in the coaching.
Clients typically leave a coaching relationship with a greater
capacity to produce results and a greater confidence in their ability
to do so. It is intended that clients do not leave coaching with
a perception that they need to rely on a coach in order to produce
similar results in the future.
For more information or to discuss Coaching as a Leadership Development
strategy, contact:Jim Smith, click
here.
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