About Coaching
What is coaching?
Partnering with a trained coach who will help you:
- Clarify your goals, values, and needs.
- Consider your options.
- Create a plan of action to reach your goals and objectives.
What are the benefits of coaching?
The benefits of coaching are unique the person being coached. The coaching relationship is about helping you move from where you are currently to where you want to be. The coaching conversation begins with what you want and helps you take action in moving you forward.
Coaching can help you:
- Define your vision.
- Determine your values and priorities.
- Bring vision and focus.
- Discover and utilize your talents.
- Develop your potential.
- Establish a healthy balance in your life.
- Move forward with your life.
- Invest your resources wisely.
- Pursue your dreams.
- Live life to the fullest.
How is coaching different from counseling or consulting?
A counselor typically helps you deal with and process the events and relationships of your past, and how they are affecting you today.
A consultant is an outside expert who assesses your present situation and tells you what to do to get the results you desire.
A coach assumes that you are the expert on your life, since you are the only one that has lived it. So, many of the answers that you seek are already within you, simply needing to be drawn out. Based on this assumption, a coach utilizes a number of tools and competencies to draw out what you already possess and help you determine what else you need to reach your objective. The focus and goal of coaching is always to help you move from your present reality into the future you desire, and to remain with you throughout that process.