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Life Coaching
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Life coaching is a powerful tool used to assist people to design their future rather than get over their past. The relationship between coach and client is typically long-term, which the coach partner with the client in creating visions and goals for all aspects of their lives.
Life coaching is not therapy or counseling, which pairs a mental health professional with a client seeking guidance around mental wellness. It’s not mentorship or training either, in which a professional is paired with a more experienced professional.
Life coaching partner with clients in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Life coaching can help fill in the gaps in our master plans and clarify the path from where we are to where we want to be. It is a partnership between the life coach and the client designed to help the client explore their options, focus on their goals, and create a personalized action plan.
Life coaches can help you clarify your goals, identify the obstacles holding you back, and then come up with strategies for overcoming each obstacle. In creating these strategies, life coaches target your unique skills and gifts. By helping you to make the most of your strengths, life coaches provide the support you need to achieve long-lasting change.
Whether a client seeks specific coaching for business or job challenges, coaching for a life transition (such as a relationship change or money and saving issues) or coaching for pure life-design change, each process between coach and client is all life coaching.
What are the benefits of coaching?
Researchers have found many potential positive results of life coaching, but some of the most common outcomes include (Jarosz, 2016):
1. A stronger sense of identity and purpose for the client.
2. The client living the life that they have dreamed about, through enhanced mental health and increased quality of life and goal attainment. This is across a broad range of goals including starting a business, expanding their social life, creating more work/life balance and improving their financial status. Achieved through smart goal setting and better follow-through, self-regulation, enhanced communication and problem-solving skills, and client empowerment with the support of the coach (Green, Oades, & Grant, 2006).
3. Positive change in client behavior and beliefs, including improved self-confidence, self-acceptance, and insight into one’s self (Grant, 2008).
4. Reduced self-reflection and boosted insight.
5. A better quality of life in general, with greater well-being, increased hope and decreased stress (Grant, 2003; Green, Grant, & Rynsaardt, 2007).
Coaching typically begins with a personal interview (teleconference call) to assess the individual's current opportunities and challenges, define the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action, and establish desired outcomes. Subsequent coaching sessions may be conducted over the phone with each session lasting an agreed length of time. The coach may provide additional resources in the form of relevant articles, checklists, assessments, or models to support the individual's or business thinking and actions.
Executive Coaching
"Executive coaching focuses on building the leadership capabilities and effectiveness of the individuals coached and help those individuals achieve organizational results."
Executive Coaching
Executive coaching is a development process that builds a leader's or would-be leader's capabilities to achieve professional and organizational goals. This coaching is conducted through one-on-one and group interactions, driven by evidence/data from multiple perspectives, and is based on mutual trust and respect.
The coaching partnership uses the agreed upon approaches to create organizational effectiveness:
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Creation of a development plan.
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Skill building.
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Performance improvement.
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Development of future assignments.
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Implementation of organizational objectives.
What does an Executive Coaching approach look like?.
The coaching partnership is a win-win systems approach in which all partners in the effort plan the process together, communicate openly, and work cooperatively toward the ultimate accomplishment of overarching organizational objectives.
Coaching typically begins with a personal interview (teleconference call) to assess the individual's or business current opportunities and challenges, define the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action and establish desired outcomes. Subsequent coaching sessions may be conducted over the phone with each session lasting an agreed length of time. The coach may provide additional resources in the form of relevant articles, checklists, assessments, or models to support the individual's or business thinking and actions.
Leadership Coaching
Without an awareness of your strengths, it's almost impossible for a client to lead effectively. We all lead in very different ways, based on our talents and our limitations. However, serious problems may occur when we (the client) feel the desire or need to be exactly like the leaders we admire. The client thinking this sort of way takes the client out of his or her natural element and practically eliminates the client(s) chances of success.
Leaders have powerful impacts on their organizations. Their words and deeds affect all the people around them. The power implicit in their role causes others to look to them for direction. Everything they say becomes amplified as if spoken through a microphone. Their accomplishments as well as their missteps are exaggerated in the eyes of others.
The action of leaders also affect the people and the organization in a variety of ways each party may not fully appreciate. For example, the leader provide vision and strategic direction, which can lead the organization down successful or ruinous paths. The leader maintain important relationships with members, which can be inspiring, neutral, or demoralizing. Leaders serve as role models for many people who emulate their actions and attitudes, whatever they may be. Due to the tremendous impact in the role of leader, leaders have a significant effect on an organization, its members, and the leaders themselves.
The leadership coaching model center around an approach that accelerate the leader's development. For example, a leader may eventually develop appropriate new behaviors through a combination of self-observation and trial and error. However, developing a new behavior like the one just mentioned might take years, years that neither the leader nor the organization has to spare. Coaching speeds learning time, enabling leaders to make significant leaps in learning and behavior change in a matter of months rather than years.
Leadership coaching gives clients the opportunity to experience self-development. As each client progress through the phases of change, they learn how to move from not recognizing the need for change, to thinking about change, to preparation of change, to taking action, and finally recognize a learned behavior and attitude. This coaching method allows the client to observe their behavior, recognize their impact, and reflect on and alter their underlying mental models.
What is a typical Leadership Coaching framework?
The coaching partnership is a win-win systems approach in which all partners in the effort plan the process together, communicate openly, and work cooperatively toward the ultimate accomplishment of overarching organizational objectives.
Coaching typically begins with a personal interview (teleconference call) to assess the individual's or business current opportunities and challenges, define the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action and establish desired outcomes. Subsequent coaching sessions may be conducted over the phone with each session lasting an agreed length of time. The coach may provide additional resources in the form of relevant articles, checklists, assessments, or models to support the individual's or business thinking and actions.
