What is Coaching?
"Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance.
It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them" - Gallway
Life or personal coaching is a structured process of examining values, beliefs and perception of the individual in general. This is with the objective of setting goals and actions plans or changing the perception to help individuals remove blocks and achieve measurable and sutainable benefits in all aspects of their lives.
The coach views the individual in terms of their potential and NOT their current performance and perception. Building awareness, responsibility and self-belief is the goal of the coach. Self belief is built when we make decisions, take successful actions and recognize our full responsibility for both.
"The elimination of internal obstacles often dimishes external obstacles to manageable proportions"
This is where Helen's style of coaching differs from many other coaches. The focus on the perception of an indvidual is more powerful than just action coaching alone. In combination this produces extremely powerful changes in and for the individual.
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Coaching addresses the individual's need for a more harmonious, balanced and successful life. Coaches work with individuals to enhance their relationships with their family , community and peers and establish and develop more satisfying personal relationships. Areas such as health, fitness and lifestyle are popular areas of concern. Though life balance remains a central concern for many individuals.
Coaches work with coachees on time management, prioritizing, and making choices to achieve greater harmony and fullfillment in their lives. Managing chaos and stress is another related area that life coaches address, both with individuals and within the coporate area.
Life coaches also work wih individuals during transition periods, such as career preparation, career change, pre-retirement, retirement and after the children have left home. Finally, emotional growth, spiritual development and increased wealth are other goals addressed in life coaching.