What Is Coaching?

The Coaching that I deliver is based on the telephone coaching techniques promoted by the prestigious Coaching and Mentoring international. I am a fully qualified and graduate member of this organization.

We offer ‘non-directional’ coaching- in other words, your coach will definitely not be telling you what you should or should not be doing, nor will he be asking you leading questions to guide you to some ready-formed ‘solution’. Instead, the life coach draws on and develops the client’s deeper knowledge of himself or herself and recognises that the best solutions for any client are the ones that they hold most closely to their heart.

These are the solutions that resonate with their own 'inner voice', a voice that is sometimes hard to hear beneath musts, oughts, shoulds and isms.

Why is Coaching effective?

A coach uses skilled questioning techniques to raise the client's self-awareness and offer him alternative perceptions of his situation. This often leads to the client realizing that they have more choices or options than they might have imagined. All these ideas and answers come from within, not from the coach.

The coach truly 'listens' to the client without judging or advising. Clients point this out as being one of the more powerful aspects of the process as they rarely get to benefit from being 'truly listened to' in everyday life. The coaching program creates an inherent 'forward momentum'. The action steps that are agreed at each session are the real stepping-stones toward the goal.

For example, in a situation of ‘loss’ (of confidence, personal loss, focus at work) we would aim to achieve a transition from needing help to being confident in making the right choice.

Accountability

Of course none of the above is much use if you don’t then apply it! So your coach will ask you to commit to appropriate actions of your own choosing, and the start of each new session will usually include a review and discussion of how you got on. ‘Accountability’ is something that clients find extremely positive and motivating. Working in partnership with your coach, clients usually accomplish much more than they could achieve alone.

And finally - what coaching is not!

• Counselling or therapy.
• About uncovering, analysing and healing issues in your emotional past.
• Prescriptive or something done by a coach to you.
• Nagging, you’ve got relatives for that!

Contact Me
Phone Mark on 01694 723410