 What is Life Coaching?
Life Coaching
is a powerful engine for personal change and self development. Life Coaching is
based upon a professional, one to one, empathetic relationship between the
Coach and yourself whereby you are encouraged, within a structured framework,
to re-think and re-define your goals, requirements and ambitions in either a
specific area of your life that you wish to improve, or as an overall
whole-life planning exercise and to create a strategy and plan to achieve
those goals within a determined time frame.
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What does a Life Coach do?
A coach will find out what is really important to you, what really drives you, what makes you who you are, what makes you tick - and how to make you tick faster, if that is what you desire. A coach will help you discover just what it is that you do want in life then help you achieve it in a planned, objective manner, integrated within your greater, overall life plan. A coach provides motivation, expertise and an objective viewpoint on the client's requirements plus additional drive to actually achieve the objectives.
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Why use a Life Coach?
If
change was easy we would all do it for ourselves, but it isn't. We all
prevaricate in life, putting things off that are difficult, though desirable,
and just wishing for change to happen. It doesn't! It has to be made to happen
and that's what a Coach does; the Coach helps you make it happen - for
you! A Coach has an open mind and is totally objective and focused on your
requirements, unlike people who may be closer to you who may have either their
own agendas or find it difficult to present the true facts to you for fear of
affecting their relationship with you. A Coach provides the framework for
exploring the issues, defining the outcomes and planning the strategy for
achievement and acts as your professional "conscience" in moving you
towards your goals when necessary.
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What for?
What for? The focus may be on work/life balance, achieving more in business or personal life, stress management, maybe improving relationships with others or trying to get a better perspective on life overall. Whatever aspect of your life you wish to improve, your coach will be your professional ally in achieving that ambition.
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How does it work?
The
Coach works with you on a one-to-one basis, initially face to face, perhaps
later by telephone on a regular, usually weekly, basis. All meetings and
conversations are conducted on a confidential basis throughout. The initial
meetings are used to establish a mutual rapport and trust between the Coach
and yourself while the Coach gets to know you and understand what drives and
motivates you and what it is that you are wishing to change and why. The
Coach's questions are very searching and are directed at striking to the heart
of the matter in order to make you really think through and understand the
implications of the changes that you wish to make in your life and explore
your motivation to do so. The next part is putting together a plan to achieve
the objectives and to ensure that any actions are "congruent" with
your belief systems and overall life values and that they fit within your
greater life plan. The Coach will ensure that the plan includes an element of
"stretch" for you to broaden your expertise and experience providing
you with an insight into your own true abilities. Having agreed a plan of
action the Coach will then motivate and monitor progress towards the target
ensuring that you stay on track to achieve your stated aims.
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In
the workplace
For
those interested in coaching in the workplace environment, follow the link to
our website at www.3CCCs.com,
Corporate Coaching & Counselling.
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