Me and coaching - making a decision

What type of coaching is available?

  • Performance Coaching  - enhancing skills and behaviours
  • Developmental Coaching  - evolutionary change to beliefs, values and identity
  • Transformational Coaching - revolutionary change in purpose, direction and meaning
Coaching
Am I ready for coaching? Key
questions to ask yourself:

Not everybody is ready for the
intimacy, commitment, and
responsibility of a winning coaching
relationship.  Your willingness to fully
participate will determine the success
of the coaching partnership.

  • Am I willing to take full
    responsibility for my thoughts,
    feelings and actions?
  • Am I willing to do tasking
    assignments between sessions?
  • Am I ready to be taken outside
    my comfort zone and do what it
    takes to get my outcomes?
What benefits will coaching have for
me as an organisation?

  • Dealing with the increasing pressure to
    perform, to produce more with less.
  • Staying up with and effectively handling
    the pace of change in organisations.
  • Handling the pace of change and the
    challenges of specialisation.
  • Balancing work and play, home and
    office, our personal and professional lives.
  • Getting a competitive advantage in
    business arises when a company is
    attracting, developing and retaining the
    best people who can do quality work
    and provide quality service.
  • To improve business and leadership
    communication.
  • To develop coaching leadership skills.
  • Improve time and efficiency
    management.
  • Support and sounding board when
    making strategic decisions.
  • Company and personal goal setting
  • Maximise and integrate 360-degree
    Focus present performance for
    exceptional business results.
  • Improve confidence and results in
    guiding major organisational change
  • Increase ability to influence and inspire
    others to greatness.
  • To create a safety zone for examining
    politics and interpersonal conflicts.
What benefits will coaching have
for me as an individual?

  • Handling life's pressures and stresses.
  • Creating a more balanced and
    meaningful life.
  • Sharpening and honing skills for
    mastering in relating, staying fit,
    being one's best.
  • Self mastery.
  • Behavioural development.
  • Improve personal and interpersonal
    communication.
  • Start, change and end relationships.
  • Spiritual development.
  • Emotional development: increase EI-
    Emotional Intelligence.
  • Spiritual development increase SI -
    spiritual intelligence (meaning of life).
Questions to ask when choosing a coach:

  • What are the methodology, approach and
    theoretical basis on which the coaching
    process is based?
  • Is the coaching process structured and
    specified goal orientated?
  • Is the coaching process based on self-
    actualising psychology - based on principles of
    working with already well-functioning
    successful people who want to realise more
    of their potential?
  • Is the coaching process based on a
    partnership relationship of trust, openness,
    safety, non-judgement, vulnerability,
    openness from both partners?
  • What is the academic and experiential
    background of the coach?
  • Does the coach belong to a professional body
    regulating standards of coaching?
  • Is there a personal connection between me
    and the coach?
  • Does the coach walk the talk of coaching
    values and principles in his/her own life?
  • Has a formal coaching contract specifying our
    respective roles and responsibilities been
    signed?
When do we need coaching?

  • What is the need for coaching in professional and personal lives?
  • Coaching handles the transitioning we go through in careers
  • Coaching helps people and organisations gain clarity and intentionality in making business and life decisions.
  • Coaching teases out behavioural patterns and uses process for creating behavioural change.
  • Coaching connects people and organisations with internal resources for unleashing and maximizing potential.
  • Coaching invites an individual and an organisation to go meta to their thinking, speaking, behaving and feeling; increasing their EQ and
    SQ of self.
  • Coaching gives people awareness of their highest intentions and bring self motivation to their daily attentions.
  • Coaching gets new people up to speed quickly and more efficiently.
  • Coaching enables one to reinvent him or herself in terms of how a person performs as a leader.
  • Coaching can address the erosion of trust, loyalty and commitment in a company.  Coaching recaptures the lost potential of our most
    valuable resource – our people.
  • Coaching enables us to handle the intellectual assets in a business.
  • Coaching shifts management  and leadership from “controlling the what” to “creating the how”
  • Coaching enables one to attain new levels of executive effectiveness.
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