Why use a Coach?

What does a Coach provide and what are the benefits of a coaching program?

How will I know if I am ready to be coached?

What types of coaching packages are available and how long does the coaching process take?

What does coaching cost?

What’s the difference between Coaching & Therapy?
 

Why use a Coach?
When people want to get “in shape,” they typically hire Personal Trainers because of their expertise in fitness and nutrition.  A Personal Trainer will set up a customized diet and exercise program to provide all the steps necessary to train and feed your body in a way that promotes physical health throughout the rest of your life. 

Hiring a Coach is based on the same premise.   Professional Coaches have the expertise to help people get their lives, careers, business, or anything else “in shape,” when they do not know how or where to begin.  Coaches will create a customized program to help you exercise your mind, discover your potential, and build skills to help you overcome any obstacle in order to transform your personal or professional world into whatever you want it to be.

What does a Coach provide and what are the benefits of a coaching program?
The ICF (International Coaching Federation) defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative potential. Coaching is a distinct service and differs greatly from therapy, consulting, mentoring or training. Individuals who engage in a coaching relationship can expect to experience fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities, improved thinking and decision-making skills, enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in carrying out their chosen work and life roles.

The value of working with a Coach is that s/he actively listens to you, asks powerful questions, adds objective observations, and supports you in developing a strategy that is right for you to transform your personal world into whatever you want it to be.  Coaches:

• Dare you to create new ways to leverage your strengths.

• Inspire new vision and “outside the box” thinking.

• Help you discover new life options and new perspectives.

• Assist you in defining and easily moving through obstacles.

• Enable you to demolish mindsets that hold you back.

• Assist you in clarifying what really matters.

• Help you live passionately and joyfully.

• Are committed to your personal growth and discovery.

• Are an objective, non-judgmental supportive mirror.

• Provide encouragement, motivation, and accountability.

• Help you develop life skills to move you from “just existing” to authentic healthy living.

By investing in a coaching program you will:   
 Ø  Gain more control of your personal & professional life.
 Ø  Develop a more consistent life-work balance.
 Ø  Enhance your ability to handle stress.
 Ø  Achieve your personal / professional goals and dreams.
 Ø  Obtain the life you want.
 

How will I know if I am ready to be coached?

• Are you committed to changing your personal or professional life into whatever you want it to be?
• Are you willing to accept new perspectives?
• Are you ready to take any actions necessary to achieve your goals and dreams?
• Are you prepared to make a financial investment to obtain the results you desire?

If you said “yes” to any of those questions, you are definitely ready.  
If you said “yes” to all of them, contact me as soon as you can. 

A "Design Your Life" meeting will be completed at no charge before coaching packages are purchased.  A trusting and comfortable coach-client relationship is imperative for a client to benefit from the coaching process.  This meeting will allow both the client and the coach to work through a series of questions to ensure a good coaching match has been made. 

What types of coaching packages are available and how long does the coaching process take?
That depends on how big you want to dream and how much change you are willing to endure.  To ensure a foundation for success, the coaching process takes several months of regularly scheduled meetings (at least twice a month).  These meetings are done over the phone, allowing you the flexibility to have them wherever you want them to be.  Most clients are well on their way to transforming their personal or professional world within six months as long as they are willing to quickly take the necessary agreed upon actions to continuously work towards achieving results.

Individual & Group Coaching Packages:

Individual Coaching:

1.      "DISCOVER YOUR LIFE PURPOSE" Coaching Session:  1 - 2 hours   The Life Purpose session is the first meeting in any coaching package.  People tend to think of their purpose in life as one of life’s greatest mysteries.  It really isn’t a mystery.  Without fully realizing it we have all been living our lives on purpose, although perhaps not as consistently as we would like. When you take the time to define your life purpose, you have a personal and unique road map.  With it you can travel with clarity and direction.  You find yourself in the driver’s seat of your life, and you can choose with ease where to drive, how fast to go, and when to rest.   If you are not yet ready to invest in a coaching package, but would like to spend time defining your Life Purpose Statement, this session is definitely for you!

2.      “GETTING YOUR FEET WET” Coaching Package:   6 hrs over 6 weeks   This package is great for someone who wants to try coaching out without a long-term commitment.  If, at the conclusion of this package, the client wants to continue the coaching process, the additional 10 hours of coaching will be reduced to the “Hit the Ground Running” package hourly price. 

3.      “HIT THE GROUND RUNNING” Coaching Package:  16 hrs over 6 months    This package is for someone who is absolutely ready to do what it takes to transform their personal or professional world into whatever they want it to be.  We’ll meet every other week for 45 minutes - 2 hours (your choice).  At the end of this program, you will either have achieved, or be well on your way to achieving, all of the dreams and goals you developed during your free introductory coaching session.

4.      “EXTENDED Hit The Ground Running” Coaching Package:  19 hrs over 12 months    The difference between Package #3 and #4 is the monthly fee and 3 extra coaching hours.  The benefit of investing in package #4 is that you will have a lower monthly payment plus 6 thirty-minute “check-in” sessions during the year so I can continue be a support to you after the initial 16-hour coaching program is completed.  
 

“CONTINUING COACHING”:  1 hour follow up session:
This session is great for clients who have completed their original coaching package, but want to check in every now and then for additional coaching direction.  During this meeting, if the client and coach determine that a longer arrangement is necessary to achieve the client’s objectives, the client will then arrange a series of coaching sessions at the regular coaching fee.

Group Coaching:  Customized packages for corporations or organizations are available upon request. 

What does coaching cost?
The value of transforming every area of your life into exactly what you want it to be cannot be measured in dollars.  So if you consider coaching just a “purchase,” then I strongly suggest you spend more time thinking about whether you are ready for a coaching program.  However, if you consider coaching an “investment” then you are definitely on the right path.  

Think about it this way:   If you have a retirement account, you invest money every month in that account in order to support the future you desire to have when you retire.   Investing in a coaching program is based on the same idea:  The money you invest every month in my coaching program will quickly support you to take steps towards your goals and dreams RIGHT NOW, instead of having to wait until you retire.

The fees for coaching services vary.  At the completion of the free "Design Your Life" coaching meeting I'll be happy to discuss those costs with you.

If you choose to invest in a coaching program, you will have two payment options:
     1)  Pay in full and receive a 10% discount.
     2)  Total fee will be divided into 6 or 12 monthly payments (depending on the program you invest in).
 

Click on this link to schedule your FREE "Design Your Life" coaching meeting !!!
It’s a phone meeting (so you can do it from anywhere you like).  After it’s over you leave with visions of how you want your personal or professional life to be, regardless of whether you choose to invest in a coaching program. 
 

What’s the difference between Coaching & Therapy?

Therapy is designed to help people understand the past in order to provide healing for emotional pain.  Coaching programs are designed for people who are at a fairly stable, healthy, functioning place in life, but want to do some serious personal growth work in order to gain a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction more consistently.   The goal of coaching is to help people master the ability to produce the results they want in all areas of their life. 

In an effort to understand what a coach is, it can be helpful to distinguish coaching from other professions that provide personal or organizational support:

• Consulting—Consultants may be retained by individuals or organizations for the purpose of accessing specialized expertise. While consulting approaches vary widely, there is often an assumption that the consultant diagnoses problems and prescribes and sometimes implements solutions. In general, the assumption with coaching is that individuals or teams are capable of generating their own solutions, with the coach supplying supportive, discovery-based approaches and frameworks.
   
• Mentoring—Mentoring, which can be thought of as guiding from one’s own experience or sharing of experience in a specific area of industry or career development, is sometimes confused with coaching. Although some coaches provide mentoring as part of their coaching, such as in mentor coaching new coaches, coaches are not typically mentors to those they coach.
   
• Training—Training programs are based on acquiring certain learning objectives as set out by the trainer or instructor. Though objectives are clarified in the coaching process, they are set by the individual or team being coached with guidance provided by the coach. Training also assumes a linear learning path which coincides with an established curriculum. Coaching is less linear without a set curriculum plan.
   
• Athletic Development—Though sports metaphors are often used, professional coaching is different from the traditional sports coach. The athletic coach is often seen as an expert who guides and directs the behavior of individuals or teams based on his/her greater experience and knowledge. Professional coaches possess these qualities, but it is the experience and knowledge of the individual or team that determines the direction. Additionally, professional coaching, unlike athletic development, does not focus on behaviors that are being executed poorly or incorrectly. Instead, the focus is on identifying opportunity for development based on individual strengths and capabilities.