The individual coaching client is someone who wants to reach one or more of the following: a higher level of performance, learning, or satisfaction. The client is not seeking emotional healing or relief from psychological pain.
You can take action to move towards a goal with the support of a coach. The successful client is not excessively limited in the ability to take action or overly hesitant to make this kind of progress.
We arrange a mutually convenient schedule and means of contact (e.g., in person, by phone, or via e-mail) that serve us both. We can meet in a variety of ways and are not constrained to follow a standardized schedule or means of contact.
We believe that a coach relates best to the client as a partner. A coach does not relate to the client from a position of an expert, authority, or healer.
Together with your coach, you choose the focus, format, and desired outcomes our work. You do not relinquish the responsibility for creating and maintaining the outcome nor does your coach take full responsibility for them.
Results
Coaching is designed to help clients improve their learning and performance, and enhance their quality of life. Coaching does not focus directly on relieving psychological pain or treating cognitive or emotional disorders.
Coaching concentrates primarily on the present and future. Coaching does not focus on the past or on the past’s impact on the present.
Coaching uses information from the client’s past to clarify where the client is today. It does not depend on resolution of the past to move the client forward.
Coaching assumes the presence of emotional reactions to life events and that clients are capable of expressing and handling their emotions.
Advice, opinions, or suggestions are occasionally offered in coaching. Both parties understand that the client is free to accept or decline what is offered and takes the ultimate responsibility for any action. The coach is not discouraged from offering advice, opinions or suggestions on occasion.
As a coach we may make a request of you to promote action toward your desired outcome. As a coach, we do not make such requests in order to fix your problem or understand your past.