FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Clarity about your goal and a path to "move from A to B"
A safe space for self-reflection and discovery
Insights about your values, beliefs and behaviours
Time to evaluate and refine your approach
What do you need to be ready?
Openness to try out something new
Willingness to be open and honest with yourself
Commitment to observe yourself and what happens between sessions
Willingness to learn and adjust
Understanding that change takes time
What do you get from me?
Confidentiality
Non-judgemental stance
Accountability partner who gives you “healthy challenge”
Fundamental belief in you and your potential
WHAT'S MY ROLE AS YOUR COACH?
To ask you questions that help you think and structure your thoughts
To help you link your actions with your values and beliefs
To work with you to move past whatever is holding you back
1. WHO DO I WORK WITH?
I work with people who are going through transition periods because:
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they want to change for various reason: promotion, second phase career, motivation, or
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circumstances have led them to have to reconsider what they do: restructure, redundancy, moving cities or countries.
Common themes that come up with my clients:
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gaining clarity about their values, strengths, and what areas they want to grow in
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confidence to take the next step towards the career or work/life integration they want to create for themselves.
2. HOW DOES IT WORK?
We work together through a series of structured conversations, usually over a 3-6 month or 6-9 month period.
We speak on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis, depending on what else is going on in your life. I'm flexible and we can adjust to your situation.
I advise against more than six weeks in between sessions because you loose momentum.
3. HOW DO WE WORK TOGETHER?
During the sessions
My role is to ask you questions to stimulate your thinking and encourage you to look at things from a different perspective.
We work out your overall goal, identify different options and look at ways to evaluate them, what could get in the way and how to overcome it.
You come up with ideas of what you want to do next and I check in with you in the next session.
In between sessions
In addition to the action points from the coaching session, I may share an exercise/resource with you to reflect on an issue/topic in your own time. This is meant to support your thinking outside our conversations.
I always tailor the exercise to the issue you bring to our coaching conversations.
4. HOW DOES IT START?
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You contact me
Please share some background about your situation, what you are looking for and any questions for me.
Ways to contact me: contact form, book a chemistry call, apply for my 10 week programme.
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We have a chat
We have a free chemistry call to find out if we are a good fit. We talk about what you are looking for and in what way I can best support you.
We cover any questions about coaching compared to other professions (counselling, therapy), and practical questions (meeting frequency, platform, payment).
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We sort out paperwork and payment
I share a document with you that sets out how we work together and the commitments we make towards each other, including: confidentiality, honesty, openness to feedback.
This is based on the "Code of Ethics" set by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
We sign the paperwork and you make the payment.
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We start working together!
5. WHAT IS COACHING?
Coaching is a process of structured conversations that helps you identify and achieve your personal and/or professional goals.
Coaching gives you time to think things through thoroughly and take decisions with confidence.
It helps you to:
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clarify your goals
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develop action plans
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make changes to achieve your objectives, and
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accelerate your personal development.
Coaching is future-focused. It is not counselling or therapy, which require a different set of professional qualifications.
If anything should come up in our conversations that goes beyond what I am qualified to do, I will let you know and refer you to the profession that is better equipped to help you.
6. THE ROLE OF THE COACH
My role as your coach is to help you to learn - rather than to teach you. I do that by asking questions that:
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test your assumptions,
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shed light on your blindspots,
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make you aware of the stories you tell yourself to see if they (still) serve you, and
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invite you to look at your situation from a different perspective.
All with the purpose to help you make decisions with clarity and move forward intentionally.
7. THE PHILOSOPHY BEHIND COACHING
Coaching is based on the fundamental belief that we all are "perfectly imperfect human beings" who all have inside us what it takes for us to reach our full potential.
Sometimes "stuff" gets in the way and holds us back from doing so. This "stuff" can be things like beliefs, blindspots or stories we tell ourselves and that shape our mindset, attitude and behaviour.
The purpose of coaching is to ask questions that help you to work through this "stuff" so you can unlock your potential and maximise your performance, by creating awareness, self-belief and responsibility.
8. WHAT'S THE EVIDENCE?
The Institute of Coaching brings a strong and expanding scientific foundation to the practice of coaching by funding scientific research.
Their research shows that clients report that coaching positively impacted their careers as well as their lives by helping them to:
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Establish and take action towards achieving goals
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Become more self-reliant
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Gain more job and life satisfaction
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Contribute more effectively to the team and the organization
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Take greater responsibility and accountability for actions and commitments
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Work more easily and productively with others (boss, direct reports, peers)
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Communicate more effectively
Source: https://instituteofcoaching.org/coaching-overview/coaching-benefits