About Coaching

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What Successful Leaders Do

What is different about leaders and organizations that are really making a difference, making a profit, and are not out of balance personally or organizationally? In a nutshell, they think differently. Over time, they have developed mental habits that keep them in a creative rather than reactive mode. And this thinking helps them stay strongly connected to the vision that inspires them. It helps them be keenly self aware as they work on clear goals. And it enables them to take action on a consistent basis with both love and courage. Along the way, they stay closely connected to themselves and others, moving forward one step at a time, learning from everything as they go. 

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How Coaching Builds Success

A one-on-one coaching relationship or a team coaching engagement is designed to enable you and/or your team to build meaningful and practical results so you can be successful in the ways that most matter to you. How? By:

  • Helping you to get clear on what you or your team really want,
  • Identifying the limiting beliefs and other obstacles that are getting in your way,
  • Replacing limiting beliefs with more empowering thought patterns,
  • Putting together a plan that will take you from where you are to where you want to be, and,
  • Giving you the structure, encouragement, and accountability to take and follow through on the necessary action steps to make your vision a reality- particularly when you are busy, don’t want to do it, don’t feel you can do it, and might just give up.
By doing so, coaching supports you, your team, or your organization in getting what you most want far more quickly, thoroughly, and cost effectively than might otherwise seem possible. Studies show that on average, coaching produces over a 500% to a nearly 800% Return on Investment.1

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The Coaching Process

As your coach, I am your ally who is 100% committed to your success. With one-on-one coaching, we typically begin with an initial Discovery session which lasts between 1.5 – 2 hours. At that time, you have a chance to discuss your goals for coaching, the issues you would like to explore, what motivates you, and what holds you back. We will then design how we will work together so that the coaching is most powerful for you.

With subsequent sessions each week or every other week, you decide what you would like coaching on, and then we explore the topics together for either 45 minutes or an hour. While some clients prefer that I coach them in person, others prefer the convenience of the telephone. Either way, I typically ask lots of questions, reflect back to you what I am hearing you say, provide you with frameworks, support you in seeing issues from new perspectives, help you align with what you most value, and support you in moving forward. At the end of each session, we co-design the homework that will help you make the most progress toward your goals. Throughout, you will be challenged and supported to be and do what you may not have thought was possible.

When coaching organizations and teams, I typically work with the leadership of the team(s) to design an approach which will elicit strong buy-in of all team members, and then facilitate a number of different processes to enable the team to make the changes it desires. Team coaching is highly participative, and assumes that all the voices in a system are important. My objectives when working with teams and organizations is to strengthen the effectiveness of the entire system as well as all members of that system.

To learn more, please click on the link below for the kind of coaching that interests you:

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1 McGovern, J., Lindemann, M., Vergara, M., Murphy, S., Barker, L. & Warrenfeltz, R (2001) Maximizing the Impact of Executive Coaching: Behavioral Change, Organizational Outcomes, and Return on Investment. The Manchester Review. Volume 6. No. 1. See http://www.cpcusociety.org/file_depot/0-10000000/0-10000/3267/folder/22906/Maximizing+the+Impact+of+Executive+Coaching.pdf

MetrixGlobal: (2001) Executive Briefing: Case Study on the Return on Investment of Executive
Coaching. See: http://www.coachfederation.org/Downloads/Docs/MetrixGlobal-CoachingROI%20Briefing.pdf