Coaching

Are You Determined to Make THIS Your Best Year Ever?

Do You Want to Be More Successful?

Do You Want To Learn What Successful People Know and Do?

Would You Like to Learn How to Reach Your Goals in the Shortest, Most Direct Route Possible?

Is Working Less and Accomplishing More Attractive To You?Do You Feel Like You Know What to Do But Aren’t Moving Forward?

Are You Frustrated Because You Don’t Have Experienced People To Bounce Things Off Of Or Brainstorm With?

Are You Frustrated Because There’s No Work Life Balance Let Alone Fun In Your Life?

If I’ve just described you, consider hiring a coach.

Why People Hire A Coach

If you are considering some changes in your life, career or business, working with a coach can help.

Coaching is a relationship where the total focus is on you, your desires and your dreams. It’s a relationship based solely on helping you achieve them. And a relationship that consistently provides this level of support and encouragement. It’s all about you.

Going It Alone Takes Longer

Why consider coaching? Because making meaningful changes in your life takes time, commitment and support. Whether you want a more rewarding relationship, better health, an exciting career, more business success, or more satisfaction, meaning and balance in your life – coaching can provide you with the structure and motivation to accomplish some amazing things.

If you’re like most people, making meaningful changes on your own can be tough work. If you doubt this, think about the success rate of most New Year’s resolutions. Less than 10 per cent of the people who make them succeed at theirs. We’ve all had dreams, intentions and resolutions that never seem to amount to anything.

While some of us can make changes after attending a workshop or reading a book, most of us need more individual, customized, one-on-one support.

Without consistent, independent support even our best intentions get overtaken by the stress and circumstances of our daily lives. (We all seem to be blind and most resistant to the changes we would most benefit from making.)

The professional support, insight and accountability provided by coaching can help you make lasting breakthroughs. That’s why so many people work with coaches.

The Coaching Process

Coaching is an ongoing partnership designed to help clients achieve results and sustain life-changing behaviours in their personal and professional lives. It addresses the whole person, with an emphasis on learning and taking action.

Clients hire coaches during transitions, and for help on time management, career guidance and business advice. Others hire coaches to work on relationships, family, wellness and spirituality.

The International Coach Federation, coaching’s governing body, defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.

Individuals who engage in a coaching relationship can expect to experience fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities, enhanced thinking and decision-making skills, enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in carrying out their chosen work and life roles.

Consistent with a commitment to enhancing their personal effectiveness, clients can also expect to see appreciable results in the areas of productivity and personal satisfaction with life and work through the achievement of personally relevant goals.

Once solely the domain of high-power executives and athletes, coaching is now available to anyone and everyone interested in having a powerful ally by their side as they move toward their dreams.

Individual Coaching

Individual coaching is designed for clients who want to achieve significant goals quickly and to reach new levels of success and income in their personal and professional lives. If you decide one-on-one coaching is for you, you’ll receive:

Two one-hour coaching sessions per month.
Email support between sessions.
Brief phone calls between sessions, if required

As well:

Sessions will be customized to help you meet your current needs and goals.
Each session will bring you closer to taking your life, career or business to the next level.
You’ll receive valuable success tips weekly from Kathy by email.

What Clients Use Coaches For

A study conducted by the International Coach Federation reported that most clients pay their coach to be a sounding board and to give them honest feedback. Clients, who could select as many choices as were applicable, said they used their coach as a:

Sounding board: 84.8%
Motivator: 78.1%
Friend: 56.7%
Mentor: 50.5%
Business consultant: 46.7%
Teacher: 41.0%
Taskmaster: 30.5%
Spiritual guide: 29.5%
Other: 13.3%

What Issues Clients Seek Coaching On

In the same study by the International Coach Federation, participants reported that they turn to their coach for help on time management as well as career guidance and business advice. To a lesser but still significant degree, they seek coaching on relationships, family, wellness and spirituality. The clients, who could select as many choices as were applicable, said they work with their coach on the following issues:

Time management: 80.5%
Career: 74.3%
Business: 73.8%
Relationships/Family: 58.6%
Physical/Wellness: 51.9%
Spiritual: 51.0%
Personal: 45.2%
Goal-setting: 39.5%
Financial: 38.1%
Creativity: 11.0%
Other: 01.4%

Results From Working With A Coach

The outcomes that clients most often attribute to their coaching are a higher level of self-awareness and self-confidence, a more balanced life, smarter goal-setting and lower stress levels. By percentage, clients reported experiencing the following outcomes as a result of working with a coach:

Self-awareness: 67.6%
Setting better goals: 62.4%
More balanced life: 60.5%
Lower stress levels: 57.1%
Self-discovery: 52.9%
Self-confidence: 52.4%
Improvement in quality of life: 43.3%
Enhanced communication skills: 39.5%
Project completion: 35.7%
Health or fitness improvement: 33.8%
Better relationship with boss, co-workers: 33.3%
Better family relationship(s): 33.3%
Increased energy: 31.9%
More fun: 31.9%
More income: 25.7%
Stopped a bad habit: 25.7%
Change in career: 24.3%
More free time: 22.9%
Increased profitability of business: 17.1%
Other: 15.3%
Started new business: 12.9%
Empowered employees: 11.0%
Business turn around: 09.0%
Change in residential location: 05.7%

What Clients Say About Investing In Coaching

An overwhelming 98.5% of coaching clients said their investment in a coach was well worth the money. The breakdown is as follows:

70% of clients said their investment in a coach was very valuable.
28.5% said their investment was valuable.
1.5% said their investment in a coach had not been valuable.

Coaching’s Impact On Business

In a 2001 study conducted by MetrixGlobal, LLC, the Return on Investment of coaching was calculated to exceed 500%. Coaching produced a 529% ROI and significant intangible benefits to the business. When you included the financial benefits from employee retention, the overall ROI increased to 788%. The study provided powerful new insights into how to maximize the business impact from executive coaching.

Free Coaching Consultation

If you are seriously considering working with a coach, please feel free to contact me. I’ll get a feel for what you want to achieve through coaching, tell you how it works, and answer any questions you might have. Then you can decide if you want to go ahead. You can contact me by clicking here or by phone at 250 388-6108.