What Is Coaching? It’s About YOU!

Coaching puts you in the driver’s seat towards fulfilling your dreams and reaching you goals. That means that you have the internal wisdom to find solutions to get you from where you are to where you want to be. Coaching with me is a collaborative, creative and wholistic process where you use your own resources and wisdom and take responsibility for your change.

What Does The Coach Do?

I collaborate with you on this journey by asking questions and creating a supportive environment for unearthing the answers. I partner with you in setting goals and objectives in your professional and personal life and create a structure of accountability in your steps towards achieving those goals. When helpful, I will suggest the use of specific tools such as assessments and exercises, as ways to help you achieve a deeper understanding of yourself.
As coach, I am not a counselor or therapist that works with a client on past emotional issues. When necessary a client may be referred to a trained counselor to address these needs. As a coach I will not refer or recommend a client to employers or recruiters.

What Are The Methods Used in Coaching?

There are many labels for different types of coaching. I view my coaching as a fusion of professional and personal development focused on leadership, careers, and life and based on the fundamental models originated in the 1960’s through people like Tim Galway, Sir John Witmore and many others since.

In my coaching I also draw upon the various models and principles from Behavioral and Management Sciences, such as Positive Psychology and Emotional Intelligence.

I also use behavioral NLP tools (Neuro Linguistic Programming), as well as scientifically validated assessments.

Positive Psychology in coaching is a strengths based, appreciative approach that develops well-being, flourishing and positive states such as happiness, resilience and well-being.

NLP- (Neuro Linguiistic Programming) addresses the complex thought patterns and behaviors and helps a client achieve their goals through tools and exercises that can be used to help change a pattern that does not work and replace it with a pattern that promotes growth and success.

I adhere to the guidelines, principles and ethical standards of ICF, the International Coaches Federation.

What Are The Benefits of Using Assessments?

Assessments give feedback to the individual that are based on years of research and have gone through rigorous verification by the psychologists who have developed them. The assessments can sometimes suggest interesting new information that may give a client the support to explore new opportunities.