Love My Life

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM COACHING?
Any individual who wants to…

• Create change now!
• Get more out of life
• Be the best they can
• Have greater self-esteem
• Improve communication with others
• Get better results in some area of life
• Take it to the next level
• Be a better parent
• Resolve conflict easily
• Eliminate shyness
• Feel more self-confident
• Feel accepted and understood
• Mend a dysfunctional relationship
• Earn more money
• Have greater job satisfaction
• Have clear direction in their career
• Hire great staff
• Be a more effective team leader
• Achieve greater business success
• Improve their sales figures


WHAT WILL YOUR COACH DO?
o Help you Structure your life the way you want it to be
o Target specific areas of your life you want to change or improve
o Assist you to Discover the obstacles and challenges before you
o Guide you on a course of action
o Hold you accountable for your actions
o Believe that you’re 100% capable of achieving your goals
o Commit 100% to your success

WHAT WON’T YOUR COACH DO?
o Tell you what you should do
o Offer therapy or counselling
o Allow you to make excuses
o Give up on you
o Work with anyone who isn’t 100% committed to making a change now
EXPECTED OUTCOMES FROM COACHING
Personal Development Benefits

• Find your direction
• Gain clarity on your values
• Better goal setting
• Greater self-awareness
• Move your life in a positive direction
• Break through your past limits
• Free yourself of limiting fears
• Achieve your goals
• Greater control over life events
• Overcome challenges more easily
• Discover how to say ‘yes’ to yourself
• Embrace the uncertainty of life
• Learn strategies to get results
• Increase your confidence
• Release negative emotions
• Choose your emotions at will
• Structure your life the way you want
• Create empowering emotional states
• Move forward lightly & optimistically
• Make decisions easily
• Increase the choices available to you
• Identify what you really want
• Even better yet, GET what you want
• Be the person you know you’re meant to be


Communication Benefits

• Understand what makes people tick
• Influence others with integrity
• Become more attractive to others and get more of what you want
• Improve relationships with the opposite sex
• Enhance personal and business relationships
• Create great rapport with anyone
• Greater communication effectiveness
• Actually enjoy speaking in front of a group of people
• Feel great about meeting new people
• Develop more powerful language
• Improve sales figures
• Earn more

Choose a coach who…
o has completed a nationally recognised training program,
o continually invests in training and their own personal development,
o has their own coach and mentors,
o guarantees the results they promise
o you feel comfortable talking with – you’ll be spending quite a bit of time together
o believes in you 100% and makes you feel great to be around
o speaks in an empowering way
o has great testimonials from past clients


HOW IS COACHING DISTINCT FROM OTHER SERVICE PROFESSIONS?

The following is an excerpt from the ICF website (International Coaching Federation)

Professional coaching is a distinct service which focuses on an individual’s life as it relates to goal setting, outcome creation and personal change management. In an effort to understand what a coach is, it can be helpful to distinguish coaching from other professions that provide personal or organizational support.
Therapy…
Coaching can be distinguished from therapy in a number of ways. First, coaching is a profession that supports personal and professional growth and development based on individual-initiated change in pursuit of specific, actionable outcomes. These outcomes are linked to personal or professional success. Coaching is forward moving and future focused. Therapy, on the other hand, deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within an individual or a relationship between two or more individuals. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past which hamper an individual’s emotional functioning in the present, improving overall psychological functioning, and dealing with present life and work circumstances in more emotionally healthy ways. Therapy outcomes often include improved emotional/feeling states. While positive feelings / emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goal in one’s work or personal life. The emphasis in a coaching relationship is on action, accountability and follow-through.
Consulting…
Consultants may be retained by individuals or organizations for the purpose of accessing specialized expertise. While consulting approaches vary widely, there is often an assumption that the consultant diagnoses problems and prescribes and sometimes implements solutions. In general, the assumption with coaching is that individuals or teams are capable of generating their own solutions, with the coach supplying supportive, discovery-based approaches and frameworks.
Mentoring…
Mentoring, which can be thought of as guiding from one’s own experience or sharing of experience in a specific area of industry or career development, is sometimes confused with coaching. Although some coaches provide mentoring as part of their coaching, such as in mentor coaching new coaches, coaches are not typically mentors to those they coach.
Training…
Training programs are based on the acquisition of certain learning objectives as set out by the trainer or instructor. Though objectives are clarified in the coaching process, they are set by the individual or team being coached with guidance provided by the coach. Training also assumes a linear learning path which coincides with an established curriculum. Coaching is less linear without a set curriculum plan.