Private Coaching By Telephone
Coaching is a tool to help you get more of what you really want out of life and out of your career or business, faster, easier and with more fun along the way! It is a way of structuring an ongoing partnership to help you produce fulfilling results in your personal and professional life. Through the process, you will deepen your learning, improve your performance, and create more prosperity and easier access to your creativity.
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You are the client, and coaching focuses on what you want. A coach uses their skills of questioning, listening, providing clear feedback, and introducing new professional and personal skills to build your level of awareness and responsibility. A coach also provides you with structure and support to reach your goals.
The coaching process is designed to give you the insight, information, tools, structure, and support you need to succeed. When you work with a coach, you are supported with compassion, ideas, and options. When blockages arise, you are guided to take powerful actions and encouraged to grow beyond the limits you set for yourself.
Coaching sessions are usually once a week by telephone and typically last about 45 minutes. This is convenient for you and your coach because you can begin coaching from anywhere you have a phone. The sessions often include you sharing your thoughts and experiences from the week, reporting on your fieldwork, and exploring new strategies and new ways of thinking. The process is not about being told what to do or being made wrong if you had a tough week. The process is about discovering what you need to make your life successful (without necessarily working harder) and finding creative ways to get what you need in order to make this happen.
You and your coach will be partners in this process. Together, you will work to specifically define and refine your ideal life as well as create a specific action plan to get there. As you discover where it is you really want to go, you will uncover hidden talents and abilities along the way. You will have a partner who is there to listen to you, motivate you, and share the failures, victories and life-changing discoveries along the way. Your coach will help you stay motivated and focused. A typical coaching process can take between 4 and a year, depending on the special goals and dreams you want to turn into reality.
How Does Coaching Differ From Consulting?
Coaching is an ongoing partnership consciously designed to move you towards your goals through the means of structured support, active enquiry, and targeted action. As the client, you are an active participant and you direct the process.
Consulting is a service in which the consultant provides you with information or a prescription for action based on the expertise of the consultant. It is targeted at providing you with an outside solution which you adapt on your own.
Through coaching you have access to outside expertise and insight as you would in consulting. The difference is you also have access to ongoing support and you will be challenged to develop new skills, thinking and action habits, and understanding. Rather than simply having an outside expert solve your problem, you take on the task of developing your own expertise and solving your own problems with the support of a trained and knowledgeable guide.
Neither coaching nor consulting is better than the other. They are simply different processes, and one or the other may be best suited to different people and situations.
How Does Coaching Differ From Therapy?
Coaching is designed for healthy functional people who want to enhance specific skills or develop a heightened sense of self awareness. Unlike most forms of therapy, it is not designed to correct problems, heal dysfunctions, or replace missed developmental stages.
Coaching is not centred around why you are the person you are today. Coaching is focused on how you can move from where you are to where you want to go next. Coaching is based on the assumption that if you are ready for coaching you are already a healthy, functional, and talented individual. The goal of coaching is to help you develop the personal and practical skills that will allow you to make the most of your talents and uncover new opportunities. Instead of asking "what hurts and why" coaching asks: "What's next and how do we proceed?"
How Do I Know If Coaching Is Right For Me?
Coaching is a big step. Most people are ready for coaching when they are ready to go after a big dream, are sick of the life they have, and are ready to make a big change. Many people may also be ready for coaching when they feel that a new transition or opportunity is just around the corner, even if they do not yet know what it is. To make sure the timing is right for you, take the Are You Coachable Quiz.
Take a moment to get quiet and comfortable and answer the following questions as either Very True, True, or False. Honesty is key! If you do not know the answer you can make a guess or skip to the next question. Once you are finished count how many of the statements are true or very true for you and how many are false.
I like and respect myself.
I want to grow and learn.
I am ready to take action.
I am energetic and willing to focus.
I have a good sense of humour.
I have a big dream or would like to find one.
I want to be balanced and experience fulfilment in all areas of my life.
I keep my commitments. I can keep my word without struggling or sabotaging.
I can be relied upon to be on time for calls and appointments.
I will be able to share the credit for my success with my coach.
I am willing to make time to focus on myself and my growth.
I believe it is possible to have fun and grow at the same time.
I am willing to be totally honest with myself, about everything.
I can speak honestly and tell the whole truth to my coach.
I can take immediate action towards change, and still be patient for growth.
I am fully willing to do the work and let my coach do the coaching.
I am willing to stop, or change the self-defeating behaviours which limit my success.
I can trust my coach enough to "try on" new concepts and different ways of doing things. (to determine this try a free sample session.)
If I feel that I am not getting what I need, or expect from my coach, I can share this as soon as I sense it, and request that I get what I want and need from our partnership.
I am ready to invest in myself. I can easily budget for and afford the coaching fees and will not regret or suffer from it.
You are ready for coaching now if at least 15 of the the above statements are either Very True or True for you. If now is the time for you to explore coaching further, please contact Mari to set up a sample session.
If you are not yet ready for coaching, you may want to explore some of the articles and books featured on this site to help you build your personal foundation. Feel free to test yourself again later as you grow and your life changes.
To begin exploring how coaching can help you reach your business and personal goals:
1) Familiarise yourself with coaching by reading through this page.
2) Take our quiz to see if you are ready.
3) Schedule your sample session with Mari.
4) If coaching is right for you, arrange with Mari to set up your appointment slot. (Just call or e-mail after your sample session to discuss options.) If I do not have a time slot that suits your schedule open I can put you on a waiting list for the next available opening. Please be advised that coaching is a fluid, organic process and while I can have a sense of when clients may be ready to graduate and move on, I cannot predict it with 100% accuracy. When you are given an approximate time for the wait list it is approximate, I may actually find that there is an opening later or sooner than the time indicated..
5) Once you have set up your regular time slot, send in your first payment (I will email you a payment link). You will need to pay before you start your first appointment.
6) Fax in your coaching agreement
7) Get ready for personal and professional miracles!
