FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is Coaching?
When you decide to hire a coach, you enter into a collaborative partnership. The supportive nature of this relationship keeps you focused and enables you to identify and achieve your personal and professional goals more quickly. You become aware of possibilities you may not previously have thought of, so that you can make more effective choices.
What are some reasons you might want to work with a coach?
There are many reasons but here the most common ones:
- You feel a need to experience more success personally and professionally
- You want to gain better clarity and focus about what matters most and what you want in life
- Maybe you want to advance your career and accelerate results but don’t quite know how
- There’s something at stake ( a challenge, stretch goal or opportunity ) where an objective supporter could help you
- You realize your work and life are out of balance and you want to change this
- You see that you need a course correction in work or life
Who works with a coach?
As long as you are willing to grow and learn, working with a coach can help. You can be:
- A professional wanting to advance your career
- In transition between two stages of your life
- Someone who is seeking balance between your personal and professional worlds
- An entrepreneur or business owner in need of objective feedback
- An executive who feels isolated because “it’s lonely at the top”
- An individual who wants to optimize your potential
What are the benefits of coaching?
When you engage in a coaching relationship, you can expect to see changes in many different areas of your life, for example you may:
- Open up fresh perspectives on your personal challenges and opportunities
- Develop enhanced thinking and decision-making skills
- Increase your interpersonal effectiveness
- Gain more confidence in carrying out your chosen work and roles in life
- See appreciable results in productivity
- Experience greater personal satisfaction with life and work
- Benefit from a support and structure that fosters discovery and your growth
- Achieve your personal and professional goals more quickly
What is the focus of the coaching sessions?
As the client, you choose what to talk about. Your coach listens, contributes observations, asks you questions, and introduces you to principles and concepts that help you generate possibilities and identify actions. We concentrate on where you are now, and what you are willing to do to get to where you want to be in the future.
How is coaching delivered? What does the process look like?
You can work with your coach either face-to-face or by phone. Typically coaching begins with a personal interview. We assess your current challenges and opportunities; we define the scope of our relationship; we establish your specific desired outcomes and identify priorities for action.
How long does a coach work with someone?
This depends on the needs and preferences of yourself or your team. The average time is 3 months to reach the outcomes you want, but you may also find it beneficial to continue coaching for a longer period.
What does it cost to hire a coach?
The cost varies depending on what type of coaching you want (e.g. personal, professional, corporate). It also depends on the length and frequency of coaching sessions.
