About Coaching

What is Coaching?

Coaching is an interactive relationship where the coach uses advanced listening and asking skills to elicit goals, strategies and solutions from clients. The coaching process is unique: instead of focusing on offering expert advise (consulting), or speaking from the wisdom of broad experience (mentoring), the coaching process maximizes buy-in and personal responsibility by acknowledging you as the foremost expert on your company and your life. The coaching relationship is designed to maximize the abilities of a leader, and provides the professional tools, advocacy and support needed to do so.

Coaches move beyond surface conversation by listening on an entirely different level. They use assessments, tools and sophisticated conversational techniques to help you identify the core issues you face, and help you design creative strategies to purposefully address them. Coaching exercises can help you create bold, new ideas, think new thoughts, and develop actionable strategies to pursue them. Coaches provide structured follow-up to keep you aligned with those important objectives instead of getting caught up in the day to day grind.

Who Benefits from a Coach?

Coaching is not about fixing people. It’s about taking good people and making them great by utilizing their full abilities. In short, coaching is for people who want to accomplish more, do it better, and strengthen their team in the process. Coaching can be beneficial to any organizational member who is internally motivated to grow or change.

Leadership for the 21st Century

According to Warren Bennis, “Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future…” Voices like Jack Welch of GE, Harvard Business Review, and others have touted the future of coaching. Over and over, organizations that embrace coaching discover that it has a high return on investment, increases employee satisfaction, raises performance, and lowers turnover. To see more of the research, click here. If you’d like to find out what coaching can do for your organization, contact me today.


	"Coaching is a deliberate process using focused conversations to create an environment for individual growth, purposeful action, and sustained improvement" -Coaching Essentials for Leaders, 2002 The Benefits of Coaching Have you heard about the Law of Attraction? The condensed definition implies that "we are what we think". Turns out, this concept is based on sound neuroscience. Cognitive scientists now know that the brain changes as a function of where an individual puts their attention. The basal ganglia can be wired for toxic or positive behavior (HRMagazine, March 2008). Coaching can help you focus your attention on positive endeavors and grow those connections. Now that is powerful! In case you are not convinced, here are some other benefits of coaching: Increases employee satisfaction and performance Renews motivation Provides positive communication Offers a clear sense of direction Results in better customer relations Empowers and holds employees accountable Grows the business Creates a happier environment