Coaching
Philosophy
As a high performer from a high performance background, I believe that anything is possible. My approach as a coach is to enable my clients to see their potential and help them to unpack all their strengths and talents. Measurable progress towards agreed goals is important, and I put emphasis on practical outcomes. I also pay serious attention to balancing the highest professional achievements with home life success.
My technique helps clients merge their personal values and professional vision, resulting in a personal true north that guides their life and career journey.
In our coaching sessions, my style and approach is determined by what will work best for you in each session, which means that I observe and match your preferred learning and communication style. This process will enable me to choose tools and approaches that maximize connection and engagement, and deliver results in each session and beyond.
How I Coach
my Clients
By retaining me as your coach, you are making a statement that you are ready to scale up to a new level of performance and professional excellence. It is my job to help you to define and believe in this bigger game, and then help you to deliver it.
Practical outcomes are important and taking action is critical. I’ll help you to identify and systematically eliminate obstacles to your success, and then develop the plans, actions, impetus that will achieve the outcomes you want. I might do this by making direct requests such as: “Will you commit to accomplishing X by the end of this month?” or asking you “What do you feel ready to commit to?” You are completely free to accept, modify, or decline any request I make, of course, and I will always encourage you to get in touch with anything that you feel drawn or inspired to do as a result of any fresh insights or changes of perspective that the coaching process has brought.
You can count on me to provide feedback and to point you in the direction of something you may not be seeing. I will also offer you frameworks, models, research or ideas that can support you in your thinking about an issue or opportunity. I will always encourage you to generate your own possibilities, and may also offer other specific suggestions. Regardless of anything I may offer, you must always use your own judgment as the basis for your decisions and actions, because you know yourself and your circumstances better than I do.
You are responsible for your outcomes, how quickly you attain them, and how far you stretch. Progress is really made in between our sessions by you practicing and experimenting with what we’ve talked about. I’ll provoke you with great questions, which will sometimes feel really difficult and uncomfortable. I will help you to leverage your personal strengths as well as manage your weaker spots.
I will share some principles and exercises that may enhance your effectiveness and add to the quality of your work and life, but I will do so without any attachment that what I share is the best way or the only way you should do things.
I coach with an authentic, caring presence and will follow the emerging client agenda; however, my sessions follow a process to facilitate the creation of personal or business goals with achievable plans for reaching those goals.
How to
work with me
Identify your vision of success in whatever area of your life you want us to work on. We’ll develop this in our initial coaching sessions and keep going back to it.
Be open to changing and developing the way you approach things. We’re all creatures of habit and often we’re not even aware of how deeply entrenched some of our behaviors have become. To make real progress, we must be willing to re-examine our thinking, discard the things that don’t serve us, and be willing to stretch beyond the comfortable and familiar. Working hard brings results more quickly.
Come to each coaching session with an agenda. We have a limited amount of time in each coaching session, so a list of what you want to cover is great for making sure you get what you want out of our time together. If nothing springs to mind, that’s okay; we will build upon prior sessions and always return to the goals you outlined our first session together.
Do your fieldwork between sessions. Fieldwork is the set of tasks, actions, thinking, results or changes that represent the commitments you make to yourself to move towards your goals. Fieldwork typically evolves naturally during a coaching session, and it’s what you feel inspired to act on.
Please keep me informed. Please let me know what’s going on in your life and your work that may impact our coaching, as well as what you need from me as your coach.
I’m interested only in your success. If you feel unease or have any concerns about the way a discussion is moving or not moving, or about any aspect of our coaching relationship, let me know. Coaching is not about me it’s about you, and you should feel no hesitation or embarrassment in doing this.
Please give me at least 24 hours notice if you are not able to make one of our coaching sessions.
The
Practicalities
We will have approximately two one-on-one virtual coaching sessions each month. We can increase frequency when needed to make more progress and can shift times when necessary and mutually accepted. If anything comes up between sessions that you’d like to contact me about, I’m happy to take emails at any time and phone calls where necessary and within reason.
Confidentiality
As an International Coach Federation (ICF) Professional coach, I acknowledge and agree to honor my ethical obligations to my coaching clients. I maintain the strictest levels of professionalism and confidentiality with all client information. All information you share with me will be treated as confidential and will not be discussed with anyone without your permission. The only exception to this is if I’m required to release the information by law.
My coaching colleagues and I sometimes share notes from our coaching sessions so that we can share best practice. In this spirit, I may share situations but will not divulge your name. My colleagues will also honor complete confidentiality.
Should we meet socially or in any circumstance outside of our coaching sessions I will never refer, either directly or indirectly, to anything we have talked about during our professional time together.
What
I’m not
You understand that I’m not a financial consultant, career counselor, business manager, employment agent, other consultant, psychotherapist, or other licensed therapist. I am not medically trained or licensed in anyway and never have been.