FAQs

Coaching is fundamentally about creating change. Coaches work with clients to facilitate movement from a current state to a more desired state. A coach is like an archaeologist that helps clients to dig deeper and discover who they are, what they want and how to get what they want.

The agenda is always the clients. Clients come to each coaching session prepared to work on current significant issues. The coach always keeps in mind, for the client, the larger focus or agenda. Some of what may be discussed from week to week is wins, struggles or set backs, concerns, obstacles, opportunities and challenges. Each session ends with a focus or a strategy to be executed before the next session.

The coach and client discuss how they can best work together. The initial sessions are discovery sessions that are intended to create a lot of clarity and awareness. Various tools and techniques may be employed by the coach to help create deeper insight, learning and purposeful actions. Significant shifts in awareness create clarity. Clarity leads to better choices. Clear goals translate into focused actions that lead to meaningful results.

Coaching is a process that evolves over time. Because if often involves learning or unlearning and relearning, practice is significant to the process. Awareness is often like an iceberg, mostly hidden beneath the surface. Therefore, minimum time commitment is 3 months (each monthly session being a minimal of 2 hours, i.e. 2x1hour, 3x40minutes, 4x60minutes ). On average, individual coaching sessions can take 6-12 months.

Every coaching client and experience is unique. Some common issues that people bring to coaching are time management, business growth and development, improving relationships, leadership development, skill development, performance development and work/life balance.

The role of a coach is dependant upon what the client needs from them. Some of the common roles are: objective support provider, sounding board, motivator, mentor, business consultant, teacher, taskmaster, guide and more. The coach is not considered an expert in the coaching relationship; the client is. The coach instead may have expertise and experience that may be shared with the client if he or she requests.

Clients are responsible for doing the work that will move them closer to their objectives. There are accountability procedures built into the coaching relationship. Coach and client collaborate to create learning activities and exercises that the client then puts into practice to evolve the process. Most of the profound learning happens between coaching sessions through these practices. The actual session is where insights gained spark new possibilities.