Outline on Coaching

What is coaching?

It is a common misconception to think that coaching is like counselling, it is not, it is completely different! Coaching is about helping people to identify the areas they want to improve in their lives, the goals they want to achieve and supporting them in making the necessary changes themselves. It is a tool for unlocking your true potential. Coaching is about being curious, exploring yourself and discovery and not being judgemental of yourself.

What can coaching do for you?

Clarify what you want to change in your life
Acknowledge your strengths and challenge your weaknesses
Re-focus and channel your energies in a positive way
Access what motivates you
Develop your inter-personal skills
Increase your confidence and improve your self esteem
Improve your relationships
Give you choices
Empower you to make the changes in your life

How is coaching delivered?

Coaching can be delivered through a series of one to one sessions either face to face or over the telephone. It can also be delivered through group workshops. Everything discussed is completely confidential.

How do the coaching sessions work?

The sessions will challenge your comfort zone and encourage you to assess and re-evaluate each area of your life in relation to your personal values, beliefs and who you really are. The aim of the sessions is to help you find your own answers and solutions; to create strategies that work for you and that can be broken down into manageable segments with prioritised actions in order for you to make changes and achieve your goals.

What level of work and commitment is involved?

You will need to commit your time and energy and work hard to get the most out of coaching. Be prepared to try new things and step outside your usual comfort zone. There will be tasks and work set between sessions to help you practice what you have learnt and prepare for future sessions.

What is NLP and how is it used in coaching?

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is about the thinking, behaviour and language patterns that we use to build strategies to help run our lives. We have strategies for everything that we do in our lives but we are not conscious of most of them. NLP can be used in coaching to unlock our strategies and identify elements that can to be refined or changed in order to achieve our goals.

NLP can help you:

Manage change
Develop new ways of thinking to help you change as your external world changes
Embrace feedback positively
Set goals
Heighten your awareness of yourself and others’ behaviour
Be more flexible