Achieve your potential
About Our Coaching
Our coaching programs help individuals achieve their full potential through a process of learning and transformation.
Some people seek coaching for support in achieving specific goals, others because their careers are stalled or at a crossroads. While the impetus for seeking our assistance may vary, the prerequisites to a successful coaching relationship do not. These include:
- A professional relationship based on mutual trust and respect.
- A context of complete confidentiality.
- The client's openness to being coached and willingness to engage in a process of experimentation and change as a path to personal and professional growth.
- Our ability to be fully present to the client, listening for what's behind the words, knowing when to push, offering ideas, and creating options.
Most of our coaching programs are built around a series of conversations between the client and coach over a defined period of time, typically six months. At the outset of the engagement, coach and client discuss the reasons to engage in coaching. Together, we clarify the outcomes the client seeks and discern any attitudes and behaviors that are getting in the way of the client's success. Subsequent sessions are devoted to helping the client develop the awareness, skills, strategies, and wherewithal to achieve his or her goals, including exploring levels of personal commitment and desire to change.
Special Coaching Programs
Our Coaching Up
program involves creating a cadre of non-management coaches-in-training, each of whom is assigned to an executive or senior manager to deliver a traditional coaching program over a period of six months. The program creates the opportunity for senior managers to gain a direct and unique perspective on how they are perceived in the organization, with less filtering and dilution, and to be coached accordingly. All coach-trainees are under the supervision and guidance of one of our master coaches and participate in monthly peer evaluation sessions to further develop their skills and enhance their personal growth.
Our Instant Focus program is a half-day intensive coaching session that is designed to help sole proprietors and senior executives commit to paper the concerns, ideas, and aspirations they may have in their heads, but have not yet had the opportunity or perspective to clarify, prioritize, and put into action. The Instant Focus session is a catalyst for focused action that helps clients get the traction they need to get moving and keep on moving in the right direction, without protracted expenditures of time.
Footnotes:
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® is a registered trademark of the Consultants Psychology Press. All rights reserved.
Kolbe Pure Instinct System™ is a trademark of Kolbe Corporation. All rights reserved.
Leading With Grace™ is a servicemark of Kagan Associates in conjunction with Karen Nell Smith. All rights reserved.
Coaching Up™ is a servicemark of Kagan Associates. All rights reserved.
Instant Focus™ is a servicemark of Kagan Associates. All rights reserved.
Emotional Competency Inventory (ECI) and Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI) were developed by the HayGroup (Hay Acquisition Company). All rights reserved.
Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) is a trademark of Human Synergistics International®. All rights reserved.
* Coaching Up and Instant Focus are service marks of Kagan Associates.
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