What is Coaching?
- A trusted partnership between you and a coach designed to help maximize personal and professional potential and produce dramatic, lasting results.
- Quickly becomes a leading tool you can use to create a better life and stronger relationships.
- Honors that you are an expert in your life and believes that every client is creative, resourceful, and whole.
- You gain a trusted partner-in-exploration who is part genie, part worrisome gnat, part honest and candid mirror, part drill sergeant, part warm blankie and your special confidant.
- Is typically a very enjoyable process. Who doesn’t want to experience:
- Fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities
- Increased thinking and decision making
- Enhanced personal effectiveness
- Greater confidence in carrying out their chosen work and life roles?
Coaches know your best answers lie within you and, as your equal-partner-in-exploration, are there to help patiently and persistently draw them out. They see your capabilities and magnificence often much better than you can! Your coach will be a resource for brainstorming, tools, information, books and other experts.
“You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” ~ Galileo Galilei
Why and when is coaching beneficial?
Both our professional and personal worlds are filled with constant, rapid and unpredictable change. These changes require high flexibility and new skills to manage our long-term effectiveness and maximize our potential. In these turbulent times, coaches help clients:
- Refine goals and strategies
- Reassess assumptions
- Develop a sustainable plan for change.
There are many reasons that you and your organization might choose to work with a coach to accomplish:
Professional Growth
- Increase performance and productivity
- Accomplish goals faster
- Take your career to the next level
- Overcome barriers to success
- Become a better communicator
- Improve leadership skills
- Get better results from the people you manage
Personal Growth
- Increase self-awareness
- Improve relationships
- Develop a better work-life balance
- Increase personal satisfaction
- Eliminate self-limiting behavior and thinking
- Achieve that “better version” of yourself
Who can benefit from coaching?
Drawing upon my unique set of experiences, skills and insight, there are three categories of individuals that I’ve identified who would benefit most from my strategic approach to coaching:
Executives
- Discover how to improve organizational performance by strengthening leadership and personal rapport skills.
- Develop strategies to survive and thrive in an environment where you must adapt to change quickly and often.
- Improve processes to achieve short- and long-term organizational and personal goals.
Emerging Leaders
- Learn and improve the necessary skills to become a truly great leader.
- Build the key areas that will allow for both professional and personal successes.
- Develop strategic plans to create a better life and stronger relationships.
- Consciously and continually grow capacity to accomplish ambitious goals.
Healthcare Leaders, Executives and Physicians
Given my depth of experience in healthcare, my coaching brings a unique value to leaders in healthcare . Rapid-fire change is the norm. Their world is controlled by many entities such as governmental agencies, regulatory agencies, insurance companies and patients are more informed than ever.
- Coaching offers a new way of approaching priorities and work/life balance to those who often give of themselves with no sense of their own well being.
- Working with healthcare leaders has led me to develop “STAT Coaching” sessions — brief sessions necessitated by the client’s need to address an immediate coachable issue.
What is the Coaching Process?
The Coaching process typically involves 4 phases:
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Establish Coaching Contract
- The coaching process begins with a personal meeting or interview – either face-to-face or via telephone – to discuss the client’s challenges or opportunities and define the scope of the coaching relationship.
- Subsequent coaching sessions and administrative details may be finalized.
- The length of a coaching partnership varies depending on the needs and preferences of each individual or team.
- Factors that may impact the length of time include:
- The types of goals
- The ways individuals or teams like to work
- The frequency of coaching meetings
- Financial resources available to support coaching.
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Outline Desired Goals & Future State
- This phase of the engagement involves clarification and prioritization of the client’s desired goals and outcomes.
- The client may be asked to complete specific assignments that support the definition and achievement of prioritized goals.
- The coach may suggest and provide resources, such as assessment tools, models, or relevant articles and books, to support the client’s thought process and to help develop a holistic view of the client’s environment.
- Assessment tools provide objective information which can serve to enhance a client’s self-awareness, provide benchmarks for goals, and/or offer methods for evaluating progress.
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Build & Execute the Coaching Plan
- In this phase, the client and coach work together to develop a concrete plan outlining the actionable steps, obstacles and supports that will be addressed on the path toward achieving the stated goal(s).
- Assigned to reinforce behaviors and accountabilities will be developed collaboratively each session.
- Ongoing coaching sessions assess progress toward goals, as well as stumbling blocks.
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Celebrate Success; Conclude the Coaching Engagement
- Together, we will review the coaching work, the goals that were defined, and the outcomes that were achieved.
- A Personal Development Plan to support new behaviors and other changes will be developed, as well as follow up items.
- Clients are encouraged to reach out to their coach after the engagement concludes with needs or successes, as appropriate.