FAQ

• Coaching is a partnership between coach and client, and involves learning and change processes for accelerating progress towards professional and personal goals.

• In coaching engagements, clients bring the content, and the coach brings the process. What this means is that clients set the agenda by identifying areas where they want to see greater achievement, improvement, and growth. The coach uses an intentional process to help the client find a path to the desired change, new habits, and practices necessary to support the change.

• Before the first coaching session, the client reflects on the aspects of their life (professional and personal) that they wish to improve. This reflection is necessary in identifying the initial focus for the coaching engagement. Some examples might be leadership communication skills, building confidence in a particular role, work-life balance, navigating a transition, managing stress, handling the “shadow” side of a strength.

• Once the coaching engagement begins, the coach and her client work together to assess where the client is in relation to where they want to go (current state vs. desired state).

• The coach may recommend assessment tools to help focus the client on their strengths as well as on areas for growth and improvement.

• Over the course of the coaching engagement, the coach utilizes a process of “leading from behind”, to illuminate observations, obstacles, blind spots, behavior triggers, and contextual circumstances that may stand in the way of progress.

• Working collaboratively together, the coach and the client explore and leverage resources, structures and support mechanisms necessary to make change happen - to achieve and sustain the client’s desired goals.

• Coaching is a holistically oriented process. The client’s values, sense of purpose, and sources of inspiration and energy provide important context for change.

• Coaching is future directed. The focus is on the future vision the client aspires towards. Commitment and willingness to taking steps towards achieving and sustaining that vision are essential to the process. The past is relevant if it helps to highlight what did or did not work in a particular circumstance - and to learn from that experience.

• A coaching engagement requires a commitment to the process, an investment in time, and a willingness to work hard. Be prepared to challenge pre-conceived notions and be open to change!

• Coaching engagements are tailored to meet your individual needs. Typically a minimum of 12 sessions is required to achieve impactful results.

• Coaching sessions can take place via face to face meetings, by telephone or by video conferencing. Sessions can be weekly or bi-weekly, and typically last an hour in length.