Frequently Asked Questions

Coaching is one-on-one guidance and extended support for personal and professional growth ad change. It is not training. It is not consulting. And it is definitely not therapy. Coaching clients receive just-in-time professional development using customized strategies that help them achieve specific business and personal goals. It is ongoing and intensive, sometimes lasting several months or more, and is designed to ensure lasting change.

Coaching is successful because of its synergistic relationship. Client and coach become a team, focusing on the client's goals and discovering his or her true potential. A Coach extracts the truth out of you... A coach helps you articulate the truth of what you really want to accomplish. A Coach assists you in adding meaningful action to your life. A Coach has the expertise to help you make better decisions, set attainable goals and restructure your personal and professional lives for maximum productivity.

Professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners, lawyers, doctors and people in transition with their life all use coaches to solve their problems or assist them in creating new opportunities for themselves.

A coach works with a client privately to provide objective, professional direction, give specific suggestions, make requests and help the client to set and achieve value-based goals. In other words, together the coach and the client identify the gap between where the client is and where he or she wants to beÑthe coach helps them bridge the gap. A coach also helps clients establish a stronger foundation and a balanced life. A coach gives you unconditional support, guidance, and encouragement.

Individual coaching takes place one-on-one. You and your coach participate in private, 1-hour sessions where your agenda, and your progress, are the primary topics of discussion. This allows all attention to be focused on you and the goals you have set forth. Appointments are kept completely confidential. Your meetings with your coach are always completely confidential. Any information you share with your coach is maintained in the strictest confidence.

Simple! We start the coaching relationship by developing your vision for your business, then establishing a plan of action. This plan forms the core of our coaching agenda. Group coaching is available if you would prefer to have advisers or coworkers involved in the process. Upon request, confidential assessments, including the DISC Behavioral Profile are conducted and interpreted. You direct the balance of our time around other business issues that arise, or around personal issues that affect your professional success. As you can see, it is very much a team effort.

In Today's competitive environment, it is not enough to merely be the best in your field, your competency is not the only criterion that will help you climb the ladder to success. You may need something additional to help you achieve your goals. You need to develop your relationship skills; the part of you that will be liked, admired, trusted and leave a memorable impression. Prospects want to do business with people that are interested in their wants and needs, employees want to work for people who value them as individuals and respect their contributions, leaders of other companies want to partner with people who model integrity in everything they do.

People learn to make better decisions, take more decisive action, overcome barriers that were once seemingly unassailable, set and achieve quantifiable goals for themselves and their employees, and learn to relate to others in a way that empowers them to help manifest their vision. The results can typically be measured by having more free time, making more money, improved quality of life, and/or improved relationships.

Organizations will stop losing the most valuable assets within their company - employees. Fulfilled workers will not quit and move to another company if their current company demonstrates that it cares about them. Employees will feel valued and their morale will improve. Happy people are happy employees and happy employees are the key ingredient of a healthy and prosperous businesses. Employees who are valued for their contributions will solve problems at the lowest level and provide a superior customer experience. Organizations using coaching practices communicate that people are valued, needed and important. Coaching fosters innovation and initiative. Through coaching, employees learn to take the initiative and raise their own level of performance. Employees learn to focus on projects that really matter and avoid time wasters and unnecessary frustration due to personnel conflicts. Coaching awakens the leadership potential in everyone, turns potential into achievement and ultimately increases business value.