FAQ

  • What is professional coaching?

    The international Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.

  • What are some reasons to work with a coach?

    There are many reasons an individual or team would choose to work for a coach. You have a vision of what you want to create, and you’d like support/partnership on the journey, including but not limited to:

    • Navigating a transition period

    • There’s an urgent or exciting challenge, goal, or opportunity

    • There’s a gap in knowledge, skills, confidence, or resources

    • A lack of clarity or direction

    • Things are not going the way you’d like them

    • Searching for purpose and fulfillment

    • Creating more balance

  • How will I know if coaching is for me?

    Coaching is a partnership.

    Would you value collaboration, other viewpoints, and new perspectives, whose purpose is to help you learn and take action toward your goals?

    Are you or your business ready to devote the time and energy to make real changes?

    If you answered yes, you’d probably benefit from coaching. The best way to know is to experience it.

  • Within the coaching partnership, what does the client do?

    The client creates the coaching agenda based on personally meaningful coaching goals.

    • Takes full responsibility for personal decisions and action

    • Uses the coaching process to expand thinking and perspectives

    • Takes courageous uncomfortable actions in alignment with goals

    • Takes the tools, concepts, principles provided and takes action

  • Within the coaching partnership, what does the coach do?

    • Create safe confidential space for client to explore and discover

    • Provide objective assessment and observations that facilitates self-awareness and awareness of others

    • Listens for what’s said and not said

    • Acts as a sounding board

    • Facilitates shifts in thinking that expands perspectives

    • Illuminate blind spots to bring forth new possibilities

    • Tells the truth, because that is an act of love

    • Sees you as whole, perfect, and complete