What Coaching Does
Coaching is an empowering style of relating that focuses on the entire person. A coaching relationship benefits the client both professionally and personally: the goal of a coach is to help people be more — to bring out their best potential, gifts and talents, and to guide them to deal better with the future.
“Everybody needs coaching. And everyone who is successful uses one. They just don’t tell you.”— D.A. Benton
Certified coaches partner with executives, individuals, and companies to help them reach their dreams and potential, and to meet them in their individual and corporate needs. These are some of the areas where a coach and client work together:
- Business planning
- Budgeting and goal setting
- Integrating business and personal life for balance
- Doing the maximum in work
- Handling business and personal problems
- Making key decisions and designing new strategies
- Prioritizing actions and projects
- Catching up and getting ahead of business
- Training, developing and managing staff
- Increasing sales substantially or filling a practice
- Turning around a difficult situation
- Time management
- Assessments and self-evaluation tools
- Working together to develop synergy
Why Coaching Is So Important Now
Intense global competition, advances in computer and telecommunications technology, product and service innovation, and the emergence of the customer as a central player in the organization have created a new corporate imperative. To sustain competitive advantage — indeed, to survive — organizations are compelled to innovate continually and with unprecedented speed.
Rapid response to the marketplace is possible only in organizations that promote continual advances in knowledge within their cultures. Leaders and team members alike must place a new emphasis on learning and on harnessing individual and collective creativity — and that requires a new type of workplace relationship. Coaching provides both the technology and the process of such a relationship, and is one of the cornerstones of organizational evolution.
Your instructors bring more than twenty years and over 20,000 hours of coaching experience with major corporations, small businesses and executives. They are graduates of CoachU and Corporate CoachU and are certified by the International Coaching Federation.
Class Format
All classes are taught over the telephone and email. The classes are once a week for an hour or hour and half.
All materials for the class are sent by email. All exams are sent by email. MP3’s of all classes are emailed to the students for them to keep and review.