Is coaching new?
It is generally accepted that Dr. Dick Borough, a practitioner in Palo Alto, California, used the term to describe his leadership development activities in 1985. Coaching continues to grow in popularity and is now the second fastest growing profession in the world.
There are an estimated 40,000 coaches practicing in 70 countries worldwide, at an estimated increase of 20-30% per year because there is the consumer demand for it. There are over 50 coach training schools located worldwide.The four countries leasing in the coaching profession are the United States, England, Japan, and Australia. The International Coach Federation has more than 5,000 members and is adding 200 members per month. Approximately 73% of coaches are female. The average age of coaches' range between 40 and 55. About 51% of people hiring coaches are women. Only about 10% of coaching is Executive Coaching. CoachVille has over 30,000 members. There are more than 55,000 Personal and Business Coaching websites.
Why is the coaching field growing?
We want to encourage effective and reasonably quick ways to achieve personal and business fulfillment. We want to become natural and authentic — now. A Sociology professor of mine believed that we need to have a genuine sense of belonging. He taught that without this sense of belonging, we may experience anomie. This is a feeling of disorientation and alienation.
To create a healthy lifestyle it helps to establish a partnership with a compassionate, intuitive, innovative, inspiring, challenging and strong motivator who serves as a coach. Exponentially, people are discovering that coaching is especially effective and that measurable results can begin almost immediately in some areas. Additionally, coaching with a professional expert is more socially acceptable than working with a therapist. This is particularly true with men.
What is coaching?
World-class athletes understand it. Actors, CEOs, and authors utilize it. Many successful people pay a coach to help them achieve excellence in their chosen field. People from all walks of life are hiring coaches so that they too can have a high quality, extraordinary life.
I embrace my coaching as a forward-thinking, compassionate, collaborative, interactive, caring, objective, and professional partnership based upon equality between you and me that helps you achieve your personal, family, relationship, career, spiritual, and business goals.
Together, we acknowledge and accept you for who and what you are today. We then prepare a list of your current and future goals and objectives. You prioritize them and collectively we design the steps necessary to achieve what you want. This becomes your action plan. The remainder of our coaching includes monitoring, revising, and completing your action plan.
How is coaching successful?
How many people have been in your life that really cared about you and listened better than most of the people you have known, suspended judgments about you and your behavior, and asked insightful and thoughtful questions rather than giving advice? Who is providing this for you now?
Your success begins when you hire a coach who exhibits these qualities naturally. Coaching is also effective by the process of assimilating, synthesizing, strategizing, integrating, analyzing, formulating, and implementing everything that we discuss together so that you can do more than if you were on your own. The success of coaching includes these and many more diverse methods and approaches.
How will I know when I have found the best coach for me?
When you feel the coach's compassion, intelligence, curiosity, creativity, sense of humor, trust, intuition, respect, and honor for you and the coaching partnership, you have the best coach. Additionally, when you know that your coach believes in your capacity to make the necessary changes that bring you to the life you desire and deserve.
What are the qualities of an effective coach?
An effective coach is a wonderful listener to what you say and what you have yet to share. A quality coach knows the unusual and stimulating questions to always support and challenge you. An excellent coach is an expert at challenging you to empower yourself in a balanced way.You will have experienced effective coaching when you increasingly feel more hopeful about your present and future, and when changes begin to occur to support your goals.
You are a Professional Coach. What can you do for me?
Our personal or business coaching partnership creates new ways for you to honor your authenticity. This leads you to the best path to realize the dreams of your life and career. I deeply understand that when you are supported to embrace the essence of who you are, you will discover that doors open for you with unexpected opportunities.
Synchronicity becomes more frequent. Together, our coaching includes your motivation, discipline, insight, procrastination, passion, courage, and self-limiting behavior. Our coaching relationship is built with a foundation of unconditional compassion, vulnerability, patience, nonself-importance, curiosity, presence, nonjudgment, and accountability. Coaching through our scheduled telephone, combined with tailored assignments, worksheets, and action plans help you maintain progress.
What are some of the benefits of our coaching together?
- Establishing clear and relevant goals.
- Following specific steps.
- New skills and tools to handle obstacles.
- Discovering new strengths.
- More effective decisions.
- Increase in your intuitive awareness.
- Experiencing new perspectives.
- Having a trusted confidant.
How is coaching with you different than reading or listening to self improvement books?
You will feel the ongoing nuance of motivation, clarity, guidance, and support when you are working in partnership with me. What we work on together is tailored to you for each moment. Self improvement tapes and books have value, and I do recommend them to my clients with the awareness that they are less personal to a client's changing life.
How does International Renaissance Coaching work?
I believe that you are created with all of the answers that you need to live a natural, compassionate, passionate, playful, and meaningful life. You simply need to learn how to ask the most effective questions to access your unique answers. This is accomplished in our coaching self-discovery process. Just as successful athletes have sports coaches that help them use their natural skills and talents, I believe in our establishing a structure that supports a playful and innovative coaching program that builds upon your gifts. We create a process that works best for where you are and we review it constantly. I guarantee that everything we share in your coaching session will remain completely confidential.
What are the differences between coaching and therapy?
Coaching is not therapy. It was not designed to be therapy. It is not a substitute for therapy. Coaching supports the successful, healthy, and well-balanced person who is at peace with their past.
The basic goal of therapy is to bring an individual with a dysfunctional life to a state of function. Therapy is about treating the person, while coaching guides and supports. There are many other differences between coaching and therapy, and between a coach and a therapist.
If you have had prior counseling, you may move to coaching if you and your counselor believe that the therapy was effective in helping you to accept your past issues and that you can move forward unburdened. If you are currently in the final stages of therapy, it is still advisable to discuss this with your counselor and with your potential coach before beginning the coaching. If you are in a lot of emotional pain or distress, therapy is probably a better choice.
It is not unusual for a client to be working concurrently with a coach and a therapist. Coaching is focused primarily on achievement and fulfillment in the present and future. Coaching clients have worked through and accepted their pasts, and are ready to concentrate on what happens from here forward. Therapy is focused on healing wounds from the past, and on bringing a client from dysfunction to function.
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How does your coaching work when we do not meet face to face?
My coaching by telephone is called virtual coaching, where geography is not a limitation. This is very effective, and for many reasons it is preferable to in-person coaching.
Do you offer coaching on an emergency or special project basis?
Yes, I am available for project, activity, crisis, and other special coaching with adjusted fees.
What are the coaching fees for your services?
That depends on the coaching service, length of the sessions, the number of sessions per month, and how many months you'd like to be coached. Click here to learn about my coaching plans.
May I contact you if I still have questions?
Yes, of course. E-mail me anytime.
