What is Coaching?

“Today, coaches provide relationship and structure for people seeking [personal], business or career success. They also help people with all kinds of issues because it’s becoming generally recognized that the lines between work life and personal life blend with one influencing the other.” ~ Paul Edwards

 So what is life coaching?

Coaching is a professional service providing clients with feedback, insights and advice from an objective perspective. The coaching relationship is an on-going collaborative partnership helping clients to:

  • Do more than they would have on their own,
  • Take themselves and their goals seriously,
  • Create momentum in their personal and professional lives,
  • Take more productive, effective and focused actions,
  • Pursue priorities that match values and vision,
  • Remove barriers,
  • Become more balanced and fulfilled.

 Why hire a coach?

Coaches help clients transform and improve their lives. People hire a coach to help make a career transition, start a new business, re-evaluate life choices or when simply looking for personal and professional breakthroughs.

 What others say about coaching:

“It’s tough to develop without help…with coaching you get to see your blind spots in a safe environment.” ~The Denver Post

“Career management coaches…can identify skills or style difficulties and offer pragmatic tips.” ~The Wall Street Journal

“The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.” ~ Harvard Business Review

“…companies offer coaching as a prerequisite…in the understanding that everyone has blind spots and can benefit from a detached observer.” ~ The New York Times

“The hottest thing in management today is the executive coach.” ~ Fortune

“A coach may be the guardian angel you need to rev up your career.” ~ Money Magazine