What is coaching? >>
How is coaching conducted? >>
What does a coach do? >>
Why do people hire a coach? >>
Who can benefit from coaching? >>
How is coaching different from counseling or therapy? >>
How is coaching different from business consulting? >>
How do I start? >>
What is coaching?
Coaching helps you move forward from where you are to where you want to be. It is a partnership with someone who can help you achieve a greater level of clarity and focus and produce fulfilling results in your personal and professional life. As your coach I provide you with feedback, tools and techniques, guidance, structure and support to help you realize your unique talents and gifts and then maximize them to achieve the success you want. Coaching is forward-looking and action-oriented.
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How is coaching conducted?
Coaching is conducted through structured, insightful, and supportive conversations. While I do the majority of my one-on-one coaching over the phone, in-person sessions can be arranged by special request. In each coaching session I listen, ask questions, contribute observations, and help you apply practical tools and techniques to clarify and focus on your vision, goals, strategies, plans and solutions.
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What does a coach do?
Coaches are people-development professionals trained to help you create a more productive and satisfying life for yourself and realize your full potential. They can help you produce more results with less time and with less struggle and stress.
As your coach I serve as your thinking partner, objective sounding board, and personal motivator. I provide the input, tools, structure and support to help you:
- Identify and solve perplexing professional or personal issues
- Identify and eliminate things that are dragging you down
- See the future possibilities in your current situation
- Get in touch with who you are and what you really want and need to be doing
- Help you define your personal definition of success and move toward it
- Clarify and significantly broaden your vision
- Set better goals that are more in line with your vision and what you really want
- Find the most appealing and effective strategies to achieve your goals
- Move toward your goals and adjust appropriately along the way
- Stay focused and on track
- Turn your self-doubt into self-confidence
I encourage and support your self-discovery and help you to find the answers that are right for you. During our coaching sessions I:
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Keep the focus on YOU - who you are, your definition of success, your personal values
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Listen to you but do not judge you
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Provide you an outside and objective perspective
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Quickly identify central issues
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Point out things you can't see and give you ideas on how to improve your performance
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Help you define goals, strategies, and plans
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Support your attainment of your plans
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Accelerate your progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice
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Teach you tools and techniques and remind you to use them
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Serve as your support system and challenge you to go beyond where you would normally stop
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Don't allow failures to derail you
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Motivate you to be your absolute best
In short I help you discover and live a better, more fulfilling life.
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Why do people hire a coach?
People hire coaches because they want a partner to help them perform and be their absolute best. The following are a few of the more specific reasons why people hire a coach:
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Want more out of life
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Are tired of struggling to achieve success and are looking for an easier way
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Want to learn and grow
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Don't feel they are reaching their full potential
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Have a pressing problem
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Want to change or improve something
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Are undergoing a personal or professional transition
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Want to clarify or re-connect with their vision
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Want help in defining goals that fit their values as well as their needs and wants
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Want help in developing strategies or plans
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Want someone who will tell them the truth about their situation and give them honest, objective feedback
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Want someone who will hold them accountable
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Want someone to teach them practical and effective tools and techniques
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Who can benefit from coaching?
Anyone that does not feel they are reaching their full potential in their career or personal life should consider hiring a coach. However, to get the most benefit from your coaching, you need to want it and be "coachable". You are coachable if you are:
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Willing to communicate honestly
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Open to receiving feedback and assistance
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Open to hearing the truth
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Open to new ideas and ways of thinking, and willing to try new approaches
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Willing and able to invest time in yourself
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Willing and able to do the work required
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Willing to accept responsibility for your life and the decisions you make
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How is coaching different from counseling or therapy?
Coaching is about the present and the future and taking action based on goals and objectives. Coaches work with healthy, alive people and help them to move forward. Coaching is not about trying to uncover or solve issues in the past, although insights about the past often occur as a result of coaching. Coaching is not intended for, or effective with, individuals who have severe mental or emotional problems or who have addictions.
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How is coaching different from business consulting?
Usually you hire a business consultant when you want someone to come up with specific recommendations and tell you what to do. While coaches can and do address business issues and processes, they also take into account your personal desires, needs, and goals. Instead of just telling you what to do, as your coach I facilitate your professional growth and development so that you can make better, more informed, decisions for yourself.
Here's a simple way to decide whether consulting or coaching would serve you best:
If you need technical information and advice, and you need it right away so that you can move forward, then a consultant may be the answer. If you want to develop a new way of thinking and being so that you can consistently work at a higher level in your life and in your career or business, then coaching is likely to be a better solution.
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How do I start?
Call Jane Herman at (805) 494-7953 or send an email to jane@PersonalAndBusinessSuccess.com to arrange for your free thirty-minute, no-obligation, introductory coaching session. You can ask all the questions you want and experience the power of coaching firsthand.
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