What do we talk about in a coaching session?

When you are a client what do you talk to me about?

The answer is, anything you want and everything that is necessary.

From what staff are doing and how to handle their issues all the way to how you are implementing systems that make more money or save time. Often your personal life creeps into your business and many clients ask for help in this area.

You are talking with me to stimulate your thinking and to be shown how to reach your potential. You are being helped with the way your business works and the way your mind works. They are closely correlated. The decisions you make can be based on flawed logic and / or emotion. I show you how to remove yourself from your thinking process and take a bird’s eye view.

You will benefit:

• By making better and quicker decisions
• By being committed to making a change
• By eliminating fear and obstacles that hold you back
• By changing behaviour
• By arriving at own creative solutions
• By taking action and responsibility to effect profound changes
• By attaining desired outcomes according to one’s values

Pro-bono Coaching Agreement

Fees: None. The pro-bono sessions will include a pre-agreed number of sessions of coaching (each between 45 mins – 60 mins). The first session may be longer as it involves the coach getting to know the client's world view and their needs.
Schedule: Session times and dates to be mutually agreed.

Procedure: Face-to-face coaching or phone coaching – client makes the phone call at the agreed time.

Payment: NA. By form of Written Testimonials or any references or recommendations to others would be fantastic. Client testimonials and feedback have reported that these sessions are extremely beneficial and of great value to them.

Appreciation tokens: Should the pro-bono client feel compelled to express appreciation or gratitude for the exceeding value of discovery and transformation they received, expressions by bartering, donation or gifting is warmly welcomed. Well, the coach will not say 'No' to this!

Changes: Rescheduling or cancellations of appointments should be done at least 24 hours before planned date, to avoid a full fee charge for the missed session.
(Standard Coaching Fees are charged at $150 per hour, rates valid till July 08).

Location: The coach is based in Sydney, Australia, but welcomes any phone coaching from anywhere in the world.

Your package: Please feel free to email or call me to share any insights or challenges you may experience.

Confidentiality: I recognise that anything the client shares with me is regarded as confidential, whether it is business or personal information. I undertake not to, at any time, either directly or indirectly use or disclose any information the client shares with me in a session unless permission has been granted beforehand.

Judgement free, secure zone: The coaching session is 100% confidential and judgment free. The client can rest assured that the coach is sensitive with the information and emotions disclosed in the session. The coaching sessions are conducted in a non judgmental, safe and secure environment.

Coaching: The client is aware that coaching is in no way to be construed as psychological counselling or any type of therapy. Coaching results are not guaranteed. The client enters into the coaching with the full understanding that they are responsible for creating their own results.

Validity: Probono coaching sessions are currently valid till May 08, dependent on the coach's scheduled availability.

Do you need a Life Coach?

Do you need a life coach?

The coach supports, motivates and nurtures the client using empowering questions that digs deep within the individual and assists in:

• Clarifying goals
• Resolving issues, Overcoming obstacles
• Attitude and belief exploration and consideration of alternative perspectives to achieve goals
• Improving performance
• Leadership development
• Self esteem, assertiveness, confidence building

Life coaching suits those who are successful or 'over achievers' in at least one area of their life. Typically they are motivated and positive people who want to improve other aspects of their life by working one on one with a support person, not unlike a personal trainer.

• Do you want something badly enough to do what it takes
• Are you are sick of a situation and need it changed now?
• Are you going through change or a life transition?
• Are you willing to take yourself more seriously?
• Do you want someone to treat you differently?
• Do you want to be more like someone you admire or look up to?
• Do you feel it's time to invest more in yourself?
• Is it time to step out of the 'old you' into a more inspiring life?
• Are you facing a significant challenge?
• Are you looking for a practical and insightful running partner?
• Do you want more of something in your life?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may want to consider talking to a life coach today.

What life coaching is and is not

What Coaching Is and Is Not

A life coach is someone who believes in you, helps you define and set targets to reach your goals, encourages and motivates you, gives you feedback and support.

Coaching is about assisting the client close the gaps between where they are and where they want to be. A professional life coach works with the client to identify what is missing or what is out of balance for them.
They then work to ask questions, listen, reflect and more importantly challenge the client and their thinking, to help them create transformation in their life.

Coaching focuses on the present realities and works towards the co-creation of workable strategies towards a person’s future intentions. More often than not, the realities, beliefs and values in one’s world are influenced by their past experiences. The coach helps the client define their realities and assists the client in looking at their situation through different points of view for positive outcomes.

Coaching is in no way to be construed as psychological counselling or any type of therapy. It does not focus deeply on past events, trauma or psychological incidences. The coach does not solve the problems for the client, but provides motivation and challenge in a way that empowers the client to decision.

The client enters into the coaching with the full understanding that they are responsible for creating their own results. This requires full commitment and accountability for their decisions and actions.

Through working with a professional life coach a client will be able to achieve outcomes faster and more effortlessly. Through regular one-on-one sessions the coach will work with a client towards success.

Areas of your life and business which I can help coach or mentor you include:

• Personal goal clarification, review and setting
• Communication
• Executive coaching - be a better leader, manager, sales person, team player, client servicing person
• Confidence, assertiveness and self esteem
• Managing change
• Conflict resolution
• Exploration of your values and beliefs that will serve and sustain you
• Work life balance
• Procrastination
• Identifying road blocks and obstacles in your journey of growth and excellence

10 Procrastination busters you can use right now!

10 Procrastination Busters you can use RIGHT NOW!!

Part of you wants to act… Part of you is sitting on the couch. What do you do when procrastination strikes? If you had never procrastinated, what would you have committed and then acted on? What would be different in your life, RIGHT NOW?

1. Get clear in your own mind what procrastination is costing you. What does sitting there, not acting, mean you don't get to have in your life? Does it cost you love? Happiness? The discovery of your courage?
   
2. Identify what it is you fear might happen or not happen through action. Most people procrastinate because of something they fear if they were to act. This fear can be real or imagined, and it's usually imagined! Think about this… we do more to avoid pain than we will to feel pleasure. We are pain avoiders, so if we perceive pain – read, fear – around acting, we won't.
   
3. Once you've identified what you fear, ask yourself – Who do I need to be to act anyway? This will give you the opportunity to have resources that are within you right now turn up and assist you to ACT!
   
4. Once you've noticed who you need to be, ask yourself – What would prevent me being that person, right now? This is the key to overcoming procrastination. If you answer “fear of failure”, then this is the real reason you're not acting.
   
5. Acknowledge yourself for wanting to keep you safe from harm. Most people beat themselves up (metaphorically) when they realise they are simply responding to fear. How about instead of following the pack, you tell yourself it's okay to be a little afraid… as long as the fear doesn't rule my life and I Rule My Life.
   
6. List all the reasons you MUST act… right now . What would be the biggest benefits to you of taking immediate action? What would change in your life? What would improve? What would you no longer be tolerating? What would you see in your life that until now hasn't been there?
7. How would this feel? What would you tell yourself?
   Make the saying: If You Can't… You MUST! your new saying.
   
8. Ask yourself: What is one thing I could do, right now, that would show me I am willing to act? And then do that one thing… right now!
   
9. Replace fear with curiosity… “I am curious to know how this might turn out,” is far more empowering than “What if I fail?”
   
10. Celebrate each step you take along the way. Your mind is like a five year old child that wants to please you… give it enough strokes and it will keep you moving forward!

Bonus tip! Give yourself a big enough compelling reason why you would act, and how you will act will take care of itself. Imagine an area of your life or business where you are choosing to procrastinate, give yourself a moment to remind yourself of why you haven't acted, and now imagine this: Someone will take everything from you in one hour if you don't act! Now do you think you would find the courage, tenacity, will power, desire, willingness… whatever it is for you… to take massive and decisive action? This is called leverage. Get enough leverage and anything is possible!

Each time you notice the strategy of procrastination show up, follow these steps and notice the difference in your life. Successful people use these techniques to compel them to act. Decision, Commitment, Action is a MUST for them.

Gameplan Coach
(extract from The Coaching Institute)

Your coach for growth

Embark on a journey of growth and excellence with me.
My intentions as a your personal strategist and executive coach is to support you in your commitment towards making an awesome and lasting transformation in your life.

This means being your mentor, sounding board, validator, brainstormer, cheerleader, supporter or challenger.

Growth is a universal journey each of us takes in our own stride. You either expand and grow, or sadly, contract and shrivel up. The choice is in our hands.