Coaching

“Each person holds so much power in themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen”.

What is coaching

Coaching is a thought provoking and creative process that helps people to maximise their personal and professional potential. The Coach provides a reflective space and through the use of exploration facilitates increased awareness about yourself, your life and the issues you have chosen to address in coaching. It looks at what you want to achieve as well as possible obstacles and what’s holding you back, that may have impeded you from reaching your potential and being happier in your life. The power of Coaching is to draw out the skills and talents that were previously hidden and assist you to identify the options, steps and actions available to achieve your goals.

How we look at things, what we focus on and the beliefs that we have about ourselves and the world, have a huge impact on our sense of happiness, how we react and respond to people and situations, as well as on what we achieve. Coaching can help identify the core beliefs present in your life, which may not be immediately clear, and then explore how these may be enhancing or could be limiting or constraining.

Coaching can also help people with skill development e.g. enhancing relationships, improving communication, time management.

    Services provided include

  • Life coaching
  • Business/executive coaching
  • Team/organisational coaching
  • A service is also offered to organisations and services seeking employee assistance for individuals.

Life/Personal coaching

People use life coaching to assist with a range of general life issues including career choices/development, interview skills, work/life balance, relationship choices and improvement, health, fitness and well being, coping with and adjusting to key life changes e.g. retirement, managing particular decisions, challenges or difficulties, improving confidence. At times clients may not be clear about what he/she wants, but knows that they want something to change in their life. Other times they have a very specific goal.

The length of Coaching sessions is agreed at the first appointment. With the Coach, you decide together on the number of sessions that will be most appropriate to assist with your goals. Coaching is generally a short term process.

“Nothing binds you except your thoughts, nothing limits you except your fears, nothing controls you except your beliefs”.

“Take action, an inch of movement will get you closer to your goals than a mile of intention”.

Business/Executive Coaching

This is a highly personalised form of training and self development for business executives/professionals. Through one to one meetings, coaching assists the business/executive/professional to identify key areas for development in their business/work life and develop strategies and actions that can be implemented to achieve this. Issues addressed through coaching include:

  • Leadership development
  • Self development and maximising performance
  • Relationship management/team working
  • Communication skills
  • Career development
  • Time management
  • Interview skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Stress management
  • Work/life balance

Coaching assists clients to explore powerful questions related to their work life and relationships like

  • What does success mean to you?
  • How will you know when you have achieved your goals? What will be happening then that will be different?
  • When are you achieving your best?
  • What are the conditions, personal and environmental that assist you to perform to your best?
  • What holds you back?
  • What do you want more of/less of in your life?
  • To what extent do your beliefs about yourself or your life assist you or hinder you?

“If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

“Change is inevitable. Growth is intentional”.

“Success does not happen with one event. It happens as a result of many small steps one takes to achieve their desired outcome”.

Team/organisation coaching

Team/organisation coaching
Teams are the force that drives most organizations. Whatever kind of team , whether it’s a functional team, a management team or a project team, working together effectively ensures that organisations get most done and have highest impact on their purpose/productivity. Performance and productivity can suffer when members of a team don’t work well together. This can be represented through hostility in the team, conflicting goals or purpose, unclear expectations, lack of understanding of different roles and goals, poor communication within the team. Consequently organisations need to be proactive about improving team working and performance. Even when a team is meeting its objectives, there’s often room for improvement.

Team coaching is a beneficial management and leadership tool. It helps people understand how to work better with each other. It’s an effective method for assisting teams to develop skills in managing conflict and improve their working relationships. When teams are working well together, their energy and focus is directed to its real work and achieve its objectives.

Issues addressed through team coaching include

  • Clarity of direction, roles and purpose
  • Team interaction and how to improve team relationships
  • Interpersonal skills and emotionally intelligent organisations
  • Improving team communication and working
  • Maximising team performance
  • Leadership development

“No one can whistle a symphony, it takes a whole orchestra to play it”

“Strength lies in difference, not in similarities”.

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