how does one-to-one coaching work?

• This is a coaching contract over a six-month period.
• It starts with a 'design and discovery' session when the client and coach start to build and agree the coaching relationship.
• Coaching sessions take place either face to face or over the phone.
• Each session begins with a check-in and then develops from there according to client need.
• Between coaching sessions the client has
  • opportunities for communication if needed for accountability purposes, or if crises arise
  • ‘homework’ tasks agreed between client and coach.
  • to prepare for the next coaching session in order to get a focus.
• Review at the end of the 3-month period to ensure on track and then a further 3 months.

how does the talk to a coach® service work?

This service is for you if you have an urgent issue or decision to make where you need to talk immediately with someone who is independent, unbiased and has no vested interest in the decision only you can make.

• Click on ‘Talk to a coach'
• Pay using the pre-payment system
• And wait for a call from one of our professional coaches – someone will be with you in 60 minutes!

This service will be online in January 2009.

coaching explained

Coaching is an unbiased form of support in personal growth for professional people to get in the driver’s seat of their life and work and

• Make conscious choices and initiate the change(s) they want to create
• Be comfortable and in flow with the ‘mess’ of life
• Keep the balance they want in their lives
• Become fully aware of their impact in their world

• Built on sound psychological, physiological and spiritual principles
• Sees everyone as whole, resourceful and creative – not ‘in deficit’ – the coach has the questions; the client has the answers!
• Is forward-looking and uses the past only as an aid to move forward
• Freeing – allowing people to step up and out to their aspirations and potential.
• Does not seek answers to ‘why’, rather to what? How? When? Who? Where?
• NOT counselling, not therapy

• an objective sounding board which is judgement-free
• permission to be and do things differently – translating dreams to reality; recognizing and moving beyond fears
• greater awareness of mindsets, thought patterns and the ability to shift them
• clarity of purpose and mission in life and work.
• a better understanding of who they are and what it is they bring to the world

• better relationships
• improved performance
• increased self-confidence and self-esteem
• greater valuing of others and their contribution
• greater satisfaction in life and work.

the coaching relationship

Coaching is a shared or joint activity where there is no leader, no ‘telling how it should be done’. This means that:

• The relationship is designed between the coach and client – each taking equal responsibility for its creation – in service of the client’s agenda.
• It is the coach’s job to:
  • Hold the client’s agenda – both the ‘big’ and the ‘little’ picture
  • Engage with the client as needed along the journey
  • Self-manage so that the focus is exclusively on the client during coaching sessions
  • Listen through all the senses and use intuition, expertise and experience in service of the client. It is the client’s job to
  • Be an equal partner in the coaching relationship
  • Feel comfortable yet challenged by the coaching relationship
  • Be prepared for each session
  • Be responsible for own actions, outcomes and impact