Coaching provides a safe and confidential space where you can be yourself and enter into a meaningful and productive conversation about your career or life circumstances, challenges and desires for change. A coach provides support by assisting you in gaining a deeper understanding of yourself and your situation, helping you explore different perspectives, your strengths and sense of purpose in order to help you get un-stuck. In essence, a coach helps you unlock a broader range of ideas and options for moving forward and supports you as you take steps to bring about positive change.
The Association for Coaching (AC) describes coaching as:
''A collaborative solution-focused, results-orientated and systematic process in which the coach facilitates the enhancement of work performance, life experience, self-directed learning and personal growth of the coachee. Professional coaching brings many wonderful benefits: fresh perspectives on personal challenges, enhanced decision-making skills, greater interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence. And, the list does not end there. Those who undertake coaching also can expect appreciable improvement in productivity, satisfaction with life and work, and the attainment of relevant goals.''
"If you were running down a path and encountered a wall you could not see how to climb or go around, what would you do? Wouldn't it be nice if you could call someone to help you think through how best to contend with the wall so you coud continue down the path? That is what a coach does best."
