FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is Coaching?
Coaching involves a unique partnership between coach and client designed to effect a lasting impact and sustainable results in all areas of a person’s life. In other words, Coaching is creating a synergistic partnership focused on helping you achieve your personal or professional goals.
Our company of coaches uses a highly effective approach to consciously improving your life. Your Life or Business Coach will empower you to set goals and establish responsibility for success. He will guide you as you articulate your aspirations, explore and clarify options, and create action plans to achieve your goals.
You set the agenda, and your coach will serve as an objective sounding board, helping you break through old barriers and develop new strategies to keep you focused and on track.
Why does Coaching work so well?
It’s no simple task to explain succinctly why Coaching works. But if I had to identify three key components they would be: synergy, expertise, and personal accountability.
Let me explain. Have you ever started a project, such as an exercise program with a partner, and were amazed at how much easier it was just because of the energy you created together. That’s the kind of synergy that you will create with your coach and you will get things done.
Further, a Life Coach or Business Coach brings the education and experience to each session to help you facilitate personal and professional growth.
What is your Coaching style?
My coaching style has been described as warm and honest. I push my clients out of their comfort zones but not beyond their limits. I am there in a safe and respectful environment to celebrate their successes and to support them if they stumble.
Where do I go for the coaching?
Most people prefer coaching sessions are conducted over the telephone because the benefits of phone coaching are significant.
We have found that coaching over the phone allows clients to open up more fully and provides you with flexibility in your environment. Instead of worrying about what you may look like, or how you are going to drive to my office in “this weather”, you stay in the privacy of your own home so you can really focus on the work at hand. And coaching over the phone also allows you to work with me regardless which city or state you live in. Wow! What convenience!
We do have an office in Grand Rapids, Michigan, however, if clients like to work in-person.
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How long will it take me to make the necessary changes?
Your coaching is entirely individualized; you are the one who decides what goals you want to work on and when you have accomplished them. Some people have single issues they need to resolve. Other times, we work with clients who are looking for balance in several areas of their lives and are willing to commit more time and energy to improving those issues.
What can Business Coaching do for me?
Your coach will support you in moving your life forward more quickly and easily than you could by yourself. Life Coaching can help you . . .
. . . advance your career
. . . make your current job more satisfying
. . . manage your small business or private practice with better focus and structure
. . . start and complete a project you’ve been putting off
. . . improve your working relationships
. . . resolve ongoing negative patterns
. . . organize your environment more effectively
. . . improve your financial situation
. . . have a more balanced and improved quality of life
. . . and achieve more goals.
What about ADD/ADHD Coaching?
Yes, we have a coach who specializes in working with those who struggle with ADD or ADHD challenges such as organization, procrastination, time insensitivity, distractibility, impulsivity, and overwhelm. He has been specifically trained to understand the issues and to help create effective strategies to overcome them. Visit our ADD/ADHD Coaching page for more information.
What does one work on with a Life Coach?
You can work on anything you want to change in your life, but here are some general ideas:
• Personal and professional life balance
• Take projects to completion
• Wellness
• Reducing stress
• Personal effectiveness
• Turning around a difficult situation
• Increasing sales significantly or attracting more clients
• Business or personal problems
• Bringing happiness into your life
• Attracting opportunity and money
• Getting negative belief systems out of your way.
What about confidentiality?
Everything we talk about is 100% confidential and unless you tell someone that we are working together (or give me your express permission to do so) no one will know that we have spoken or what we have spoken about.
Is Coaching the same as consulting?
Coaching offers a distinct advantage over business consulting, who typically use their specific knowledge and prescribe a course of action to achieve an objective. They TELL you how to do something, which is, in their opinion, the right way. Business Coaching is about asking the right questions and empowering you to find their own workable solutions. You become the driver of your own success. Through improved communication, focus, and accountability, Coaching dramatically increases your capacity to accomplish better results on your own.
How is Coaching different from counseling?
Counseling aims to heal mental and psychological issues, often by examining PAST events. It usually centers on diagnosing a ‘problem’ that needs to be addressed. Coaching, on the other hand, involves no such diagnosis and Coaches work to help you move forward from where you are. Coaching is very results oriented, maintaining a focus on the current situation and actively developing plans for the FUTURE.
While counseling helps people to live functional lives, Coaching is about helping functional people live extraordinary lives.
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