What is career coaching?
It is a partnership between the coach and the coachee where the coachee identifies their ideal career path, navigate their transition and nurture their career.
What is life coaching/personal coaching?
Life coaching is directed towards moving forward, change, improvements and results. Your coach is skilled at getting the best from you, helping you discover your own best answers, tapping into your own internal motivation, getting you in touch with what matters most to you, and encouraging you to feel great about taking action. Your coach also adds energy to the process and your life by their own enthusiasm and belief in you and what you can accomplish.
The International Coaches Federation (ICF) offers this definition:
“Professional Coaching is a professional partnership between a qualified coach and an individual or team that supports the achievement of extraordinary results, based on goals set by the individual or team. Through the process of coaching, individuals focus on the skills and actions needed to successfully produce their personally relevant results
How does coaching work?
Usually coaching is done over the phone. This seems to work really well for several reasons: The geographical location of the client and the coach doesn’t matter…Allowing the most beneficial match possible to be the top consideration; people tend to be a more honest and open with the sense of anonymity on the phone; and no special trips are needed out of the house – Saves time, money and gasoline!
The coach and client usually talk weekly, 4 times a month. On the calls you talk about what has went well and what hasn’t, if you accomplished your specific goals for that week, and what the next steps are. Throughout this process, the coach is asking powerful questions that help you access your best information, talents, emotions and self. The coach also provides support, objectivity, structure, energy, positivity, insight and technology (tools).
Between calls, you will have steps to take in your own life, and/or exercises to complete that help you learn more about yourself. You can also usually talk to your coach on email as much as you want, to make sure you are staying on target.
What does coaching provide?
This is different for each client. Most often I hear words like: challenge, accountability, direction, inspiration, focus, sounding board, support and validation. Some people want someone else to share the wins with. Others request a firm kick up the butt. But the bottom line is, we’re normally after a specific result that makes a ~difference~ in your life. And above all – let’s have fun with it!
Who can benefit from coaching?
Coaching has endless possibilities to add value to individuals and organizations; these are just some of the areas:
Corporate Coaching:
* Human Resources Departments interested in hiring external coaches.
* CEO’s, executives, managers and other professionals who would like to be coached.
* Companies looking to launch a coaching initiative.
* Companies intending to train their managers to be coaches.Initiative to prevent and/or cure burnout.
* Companies interested in coaching workshops.
* Companies wanting the support of a coach in any of the following o Strategic planning,
o Process re-engineering or creating a compelling vision;
o Downsizing and redundancy,
o Launching and developing teams;
o 360-degree reviews
Small Business Coaching:
* Entrepreneurs.
* Owners or Managers of small companies.
* Start-up companies (actual or planned).
* Professionals in private practice.
* People who run a business from their home.
* Executives thinking of leaving companies and launching a business.
Personal Coaching:
* Life Planning
* Life Vision & Enhancement
* Health & Fitness
* Creativity
* Financial Freedom
* Organization
Career Coaching:
* People in career transition.
* People with a big career decision to make.
* People in a corporate job or considering one.
* People struggling with the decision of whether to stay in a corporate job or choose another option.
* People who would like to work with a coach familiar with the following:
o The changing expectations of employees & employers;
o Trends in the workplace;
o Values and issues of loyalty & security;
o Specific evaluation criteria for your company, your future, and your career satisfaction;
o Determining your readiness to strike out on your own or look for another career.
Do you have any specialties?
I mostly work with:
* Career professionals who want to increase their productivity at work.
* Doctors, Lawyers, Accountants, Bankers, Finance professionals, Engineers and other working professionals who want to land a new job or switch careers.
* Career Professionals who find work and life to be overwhelming, stressful, and unmanageable.
What is appropriate to talk about in coaching?
Some people will want to focus just on the issue at hand, for example, finding a career, improving a relationship, etc. However, coaching recognizes that you are a whole person! Your whole life is a system, in which each aspect affects every other. How are you going to make a good decision about your career future if you hate your home environment? How are you going to improve your relationship if you are completely stressed out about money? So, as much as you are comfortable, your coach will encourage you to consider your whole life: Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual (connection to something larger than yourself), health, environment, relationships, work/career, finances, etc. Of course, if anything is off limits, just let your coach know! Usually you will set the ground rules early in your sessions.
Does Life Coaching provide psychological or health counseling?
No, Life Coaching is about getting the things in life you have always wanted but have not yet achieved, goals, ambitions, life transitions, planning, happiness, relationships, career etc. Many Life Coaches are skilled in areas such as career achievement, living a balanced life, business planning/sales/marketing, achieving wealth, successfully completing education, relationships or many other general life area’s. These topics are not typically the domain of a Psychologist and are therefore supported by Coaches.
What’s the next step to working with Obi?
If you’re ready to make some big, exciting changes to your life or career, and are interested in working with me, then email me at obi[at]hypesuccess[dot]com