Coaching is a supportive relationship where coach and client work together to help the client change and grow personally or professionally. My role is to help you consider your current situation, decide what is important to you, set appropriate goals, and work out how best to achieve them, working on identifying and overcoming internal or external obstacles on the way.
- We are naturally resourceful and likely to have the answers within ourselves if we have help to look for them.
- The outlook we choose affects everything – our beliefs, our thinking, our actions and ultimately our outcomes can all be changed by changing our outlook
- We have more potential than we have yet realised.
We will work together over one or more sessions, depending on what you want to achieve. Being an objective ‘outsider’ means you get my full attention but not my opinions. I’ll ask questions – sometimes the ones you’re avoiding – to stretch your thinking or get to the nub of the matter. Discussion and exercises will help you see perspectives and possibilities you hadn’t thought of before. I’ll encourage you to step outside your comfort zone but not enough to overwhelm you and you’ll come away with do-able actions.
Sometimes, what your loved ones think is best for you might not be in line with your thinking. Their views are shaped by their own experiences including their fears and insecurities. They see you in a certain way and want to keep you ‘safe’. That’s hard to challenge, and can limit you because you don’t want to disappoint them.
An experienced coach is aware of their own lens on life, notices their own responses to what’s being discussed, and works hard to put these aside so they don’t get in the way.