How Does Coaching Work?

Want to know exactly what you’re getting for your money? My executive coaching process is a strategic evolution of four stages. Each stage has a specific purpose that when successfully completed, will lead to the next.

01. CLARITY

During the CLARITY stage of the process, we’ll dig into you, your past, your career, your business, your challenges, your concerns and your end goals. I’ll listen, ask strategic questions, make comments and observations and provide you with a fresh, outside perspective. Together, we’ll focus on and define your specific objectives and desired results.

02. OPPORTUNITY

During the OPPORTUNITY stage of the process, we’ll explore the landscape of your business and your industry to identify obstacles and opportunities. From there, we’ll decide which current market conditions and aspects of your business need to be analyzed further in order to gain further understanding of all the underlying issues.

03. DISCOVERY

During the DISCOVERY stage of the process, I’ll provide new learning and help you take on a more effective prospective. We'll discuss important fundamentals of business and take you down the path of seeing your leadership style and business structure in a new light. Then, we’ll re-approach the way you do business from a data-driven, solution-based perspective.

04. STRATEGY

During the STRATEGY stage, we’ll define and create accountability and structures through an action plan that will support sustainable results. I’ll guide you through building, executing and trouble shooting your strategy every step of the way to ensure things are sailing smoothly and you and your business are on the right track.

Methodology

My executive coaching methodology is governed by ethical behavior and incorporates:

Communicating fully and directly through powerful inquiry and observation
Discovering client learning styles and processes
Exploring and reinforcing client agendas (free of judgment)
Encouraging strategic action to gain sustainable results

FAQs

Executive coaching creates a space where the coach and client can clarify goals, obstacles and opportunities together, allowing the client to attain what they have always personally and professionally strived to accomplish.

Most people don’t allow themselves time to think—they are so busy that they don’t take the time to stop and consider their goals, what is keeping them from achieving these goals and how to attain these goals.

Sometimes the clarity and resolution a person needs can be accomplished in a couple of sessions, while others may take months of partnering to attain their goals. Coaching allows for the process to be dictated by the needs of the specific client.

The rhythm that the coach and client create is uniquely based on the flow and desired results of coaching. Some clients are driven to achieve results immediately, so they schedule weekly sessions. Others prefer to have the awareness of each session sink in and schedule their sessions every other week or every ten days.

Most coaching is done over the phone—this creates an environment where the client doesn’t have to commute to and from the coach’s office, allowing them more freedom and flexibility. Whenever possible, I love to meet my clients in person for our initial session, so we can get a good feel for one another. But, even in situations where I haven’t had the chance to meet face-to-face with a client, we still achieve successful outcomes.

The nature of phone sessions make every word a communication in itself, without distraction, which allows me as the coach more clearly hear and intuitively catch underlying meanings. Since there is no social pressure or conscious etiquette of two people physically in a room together, the client may say things that he or she might not say in person, creating awareness for themself and for me. The results are palpable.

Often I find that a weekly session of 30 to 60 minutes is optimal.

As the client, it’s your responsibility to be open and honest, clearly communicate what you want and be open to my opinions and suggestions. Help me help you—coaching isn’t always easy, it forces the client to really examine their person, their approach, their reality and further pushes them to integrate change. Through all the hard conversations, there will be learning, clarity and identified possibilities that outline actions that will lead to sustainable results.