Coaching

Most people associate coaching with sport: they’re familiar with the idea of a football coach, running training sessions and helping the team work together to win—but actually the concept is a lot wider. Coaching is essentially about setting goals and achieving them (in the case of football, hopefully real goals!). This page is about life coaching. You may be more interested in business coaching.

Life Coaching

Personal coaching is about helping you find out what you really want to do or become, and find ways to achieve that. It helps to deal with the hidden beliefs that have stopped you fulfilling your potential.

Coaching can help you move on in situations where you feel stuck, or don’t have anyone to discuss things with. Here are some of the situations where you might find coaching useful:

• You’re dissatisfied with your job but don’t really know why. You find it depressing but can’t quite make up your mind to move on.
• You’re faced with several choices and keep going round them in your head.
• You have a dream – but can’t get around to doing anything about it
• You’d like to change something about yourself or your situation and would like help achieving it.
• You’d like the chance to talk over some options and choices with someone outside the situation.

Coaching is not magic and it’s not counselling or therapy. It doesn’t aim to deal with deep underlying causes or issues from the past (though it may help you to decide that’s what you need to do). It’s essentially practical and solution based, and aimed at helping you to move on, make changes and get where you want to be.

A coach will:

• Listen to you
• Act as a sounding board to help you think about things.
• Help you reflect on your current situation
• Help you clarify and verbalise your goals
• Work out some practical strategies with you for moving forward
• Encourage you and help you stay positive!

Coaching is respectful of a person’s identity and non directive – a coach will not give you specific advice or tell you what to do but will give you the tools to help you make the decisions and changes for yourself.

I’m interested – what now?

Get in touch! An initial consultation over the phone is free, and gives you the chance to discuss your goals and how coaching can help you achieve them more quickly. Whatever it is you want to achieve, coaching is a proven and reliable way to get there!
“Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them learn rather than teaching them.” (Whitmore, J, 2004)